Post by Athletics GM (Jared) on Oct 17, 2020 16:02:38 GMT
To recap from the constitution:
- All bids for free agents must state a contract amount and number of years.
- The minimum bid is $700,000
- The minimum increase per bid is $200,000
- The maximum bid for a 1 year contract is $15,000,000
- The maximum bid for a 2 year contract is $22,000,000
- The maximum bid for a 3 year contract is $25,000,000
- All bids placed must fit within your available cap space while they are live bids. Just because you think you won't win all of the players you are bidding on does not mean you can exceed your cap in bids. A first violation will result in a 24 hour suspension from free agency. A second violation will result in a 7 day suspension and a third violation will result in expulsion from the league.
- Bidding on MiLB players is allowed. Bids will be for a dollar amount only...no years stated.
- The maximum contract allowed for a player on the 20 man MiLB roster is 1,000,000. Any amount over that will require rostering the player on the 40 man roster and paying them against your cap.
- Bidding ends when the high bid has reached 24 hours.
Bidding Format
- All bids must include the player name, position and mlb team in the subject of the post.
- Players that have exceeded the MiLB limits should be bid with a dollar amount and contract length.
Example: $700,000 for 3 years
-Players that still have MiLB eligibility should be bid on with a dollar amount only.
Example: $500,000 AAV
Important:
I'm also going to let everyone who does not compete in WLB in on the most common strategy for landing MiLB eligible players under this bidding system. If you bid $801,000 as the opening bid on a free agent minor leaguer, the next bid by rule must be $1,001,000 or higher...so you basically force the next bidder to commit to rostering the player on the 40 man roster. I'm putting this out there so that the managers from that league that already use the technique will not have an advantage.
Additionally...
- During the first free agent period of any offseason (including this one), each GM will be allowed to nominate no more than three players for bidding at any time during the opening flood of free agency. Each time an auction that you started is completed you may start an auction for a new player. When free agency calms down, the commish will announce that this restriction is removed until the following offseason.
2022 EDIT: Any auction that lasts more than 48 hours no longer counts toward the 3 per person maximum and the originator of that auction can start a new auction. We don't want to penalize people for nominating a popular free agent.
- At this time I am not going to place restrictions on who can post players in what order. I am just going to ask that you look before and after you post a player to confirm that you have not posted a duplicate player. I anticipate that during the first couple of hours of free agency there may be an issue with this. I intend to be available during that time to quickly delete duplicate threads based on who posted first. I will notify you if your thread is deleted so that you can post a new player and potentially bid on the other player you tried to post.
- All bids for free agents must state a contract amount and number of years.
- The minimum bid is $700,000
- The minimum increase per bid is $200,000
- The maximum bid for a 1 year contract is $15,000,000
- The maximum bid for a 2 year contract is $22,000,000
- The maximum bid for a 3 year contract is $25,000,000
- All bids placed must fit within your available cap space while they are live bids. Just because you think you won't win all of the players you are bidding on does not mean you can exceed your cap in bids. A first violation will result in a 24 hour suspension from free agency. A second violation will result in a 7 day suspension and a third violation will result in expulsion from the league.
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- The maximum contract allowed for a player on the 20 man MiLB roster is 1,000,000. Any amount over that will require rostering the player on the 40 man roster and paying them against your cap.
- Bidding ends when the high bid has reached 24 hours.
Bidding Format
- All bids must include the player name, position and mlb team in the subject of the post.
- Players that have exceeded the MiLB limits should be bid with a dollar amount and contract length.
Example: $700,000 for 3 years
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Example: $500,000 AAV
I'm also going to let everyone who does not compete in WLB in on the most common strategy for landing MiLB eligible players under this bidding system. If you bid $801,000 as the opening bid on a free agent minor leaguer, the next bid by rule must be $1,001,000 or higher...so you basically force the next bidder to commit to rostering the player on the 40 man roster. I'm putting this out there so that the managers from that league that already use the technique will not have an advantage.
Additionally...
- During the first free agent period of any offseason (including this one), each GM will be allowed to nominate no more than three players for bidding at any time during the opening flood of free agency. Each time an auction that you started is completed you may start an auction for a new player. When free agency calms down, the commish will announce that this restriction is removed until the following offseason.
2022 EDIT: Any auction that lasts more than 48 hours no longer counts toward the 3 per person maximum and the originator of that auction can start a new auction. We don't want to penalize people for nominating a popular free agent.
- At this time I am not going to place restrictions on who can post players in what order. I am just going to ask that you look before and after you post a player to confirm that you have not posted a duplicate player. I anticipate that during the first couple of hours of free agency there may be an issue with this. I intend to be available during that time to quickly delete duplicate threads based on who posted first. I will notify you if your thread is deleted so that you can post a new player and potentially bid on the other player you tried to post.
