[USML Announce] USML - FAAB bidding
Jeff Winick
jhwinick at aol.com
Tue Mar 25 13:14:25 EDT 2008
The site already provides that ties go to the lower team in the
standings, but only for the first player awarded After that the
priority is as the site indicates. To do otherwise creates a nightmare
for Mark. He'd potentially have to redo all of the transactions. It
doesn't seem fair to burden Mark with that. What's up Brad. Worried
that you'll be last again this year?
Jeff
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 25, 2008, at 1:04 PM, "Brad Jansen" <bljansen at gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree with RER. And will ties go to lowest team in current
> standings, unlike the site's methodology?
> --BLJ
>
>
> On 3/25/08, Richard Robbins <RERobbins at itinker.net> wrote:
> Thanks for all the guidance guys.
>
>
> I'd really like to keep our "eBay" style bidding as this makes it
> more difficult to create asterisk players.
>
>
> -- Rich
>
> On Mar 25, 2008, at 10:52 AM, jhwinick at aol.com wrote:
>> A few important points/questions:
>>
>> 1. The system awards the player to the highest bidder. During the
>> last few years we have reduced the winning bid to $1 over the next
>> highest bid. That requires extra work for the commissioner. Are
>> we going to continue to use that system?
>>
>> 2. If we do use the same system as the last few years, it is
>> important to note that the "refund" isn't effective until the
>> following week. The system will disregard bids once you've
>> exhausted your budget. So, if you make a high bid on one player
>> and you win, you may exhaust your budget for the week, even if you
>> are entitled to have your FAAB replenished for the following week.
>>
>> 3. Since we don't yet know how well this will work, I would
>> recommend that for the first couple of weeks that people send a
>> copy of their FAAB bids to usmltrans.
>>
>> 4. Contingent bids are now treated differently than they have been
>> in the past. It used to be that if a team bid on only one player,
>> that team would have priority over any team that placed a
>> contingent bid on the same player, even if the contingent bid was
>> higher. That is no longer the case. The logic of the system is
>> explained in detail in the information provided by Mark.
>>
>> Jeff Winick
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Blocker, Mark B. <mblocker at Sidley.com>
>> To: announce at usml.net
>> Sent: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 9:35 am
>> Subject: [USML Announce] USML - FAAB bidding
>>
>> This is straight from the website, which no one bothers to read:
>> What is FAAB (Free Agent Acquisition Budget)?
>> Answer
>> FAAB stands for Free Agent Acquisition Budget. Every add/drop is
>> granted via a blind, bidding system that is processed
>> automatically. Each time an owner has an add/drop processed, they
>> will be placed at the bottom of the FAAB order. If there is a tie
>> for a player, the FAAB order is used; the owner that is higher in
>> the list will receive the player and be moved to the bottom.
>>
>> You can also select the Commissioner FAAB approval process. Free
>> agents are still picked up via a blind, bidding system, but it is
>> processed by the commissioner and not automatically. The
>> Commissioner will go to the Transactions Request page to process
>> the winning bids.
>>
>> If you select to use either of the two available FAAB options, each
>> owner will go to the My Team/Add-drop page and select the players
>> to be added and dropped then a bid is entered. The team with the
>> highest bid for that player will be awarded the player and the bid
>> value subtracted from their budget.
>> Example #1
>> Team #1 as listed in the FAAB order inputs a request for three
>> players:
>> Player "a" bid of $15
>> Player "c" bid of $10
>> Player "b" bid of $1
>> Team # 8 as listed in the FAAB order inputs a request for three
>> players:
>> Player "a" bid of $25
>> Player "c" bid of $10
>> Player "b" bid of $1
>> The system looks for the player that has the highest overall bid
>> placed on him. In this case, player A would be the first player
>> auctioned. The system would then search through every bid submitted
>> for Player A. The team with the highest bid for Player A would win
>> that player. In this example, team 8 would be awarded Player A.
>>
>> The FAAB process will continue in this manner. The system will seek
>> out the player that has the highest overall bid for him. Player C
>> will be the next player auctioned. If there are 2 equal bids for
>> the same player (c), the system will award the player to the team
>> that is highest on the FAAB order. For Example, player C will be
>> auctioned second and awarded to Team #1 because they were ahead of
>> Team #8 in the FAAB order (remember Team #8 would be at the bottom
>> of the FAAB order because the won the previous auction.)
>> Finally, player (b) will be auctioned last and awarded to Team #8
>> because they are higher on the FAAB order (Team #1 was dropped to
>> the bottom of the FAAB order because the won the previous auction).
>> Please note: If a team is dropping the same player for multiple
>> bids and that team wins a bid all subsequent bids involving "same"
>> dropped player become invalid.
>> Example #2
>> FAAB Budget is $100
>> The remaining budgets for the bidding teams are as follows:
>> John's Team $55
>> Sam's Team $80
>> Joe's Team $40
>> Larry's Team $65
>> John is listed #1 in the FAAB order and his FAAB bids are:
>> Player A bid of $30 dropping Player X
>> Player F bid of $30 dropping Player Y
>> Sam is listed #3 in the FAAB order and his FAAB bids are:
>> Player B bid of $20 dropping Player M
>> Player C bid of $15 dropping Player M
>> Player D bid of $5 dropping Player O
>>
>> Joe is listed #4 in the FAAB order and his FAAB bids are:
>> Player C bid of $10 dropping Player R
>> Player E bid of $10 dropping Player R
>> Larry is listed #7 in the FAAB order and his FAAB bids are:
>> Player F bid of $5 dropping Player T
>> Player D bid of $5 dropping Player V
>> The first player to be auctioned is Player A for $30. Player A is
>> auctioned first because $30 is the highest overall bid. John has
>> Player A prioritized as his first bid. John wins the bid for Player
>> A for $30. John drops to the bottom of the FAAB order and $30 is
>> subtracted from his FAAB budget.
>> Player F would not be auctioned at this time because John's $30 bid
>> would exceed his FAAB budget.
>> The second player to be auctioned is Player B. Sam wins the bid for
>> Player B with a bid of $20. Sam drops to the bottom of the FAAB
>> order and $20 is subtracted from his FAAB budget.
>> The third player to be auctioned is Player C for $10 (Sam's bid of
>> $15 became invalid when Sam dropped Player M to claim Player B).
>> Joe wins the bid for Player C with a bid of $10. Joe drops to the
>> bottom of the FAAB order and $10 is subtracted from his FAAB budget.
>> The Fourth player to be auctioned is Player F for $5. Player F is
>> auctioned next for 2 reasons:
>> 1)Larry is higher in the FAAB order because Sam dropped below Larry
>> with a successful bid earlier in the bidding process. Since Larry
>> is higher in the FAAB order, his bid (Player F for $5) will be
>> auctioned before Sam's bid (Player D for $5).
>> 2)Larry has prioritized his bid of Player F over Player D.
>> Larry wins the bid for Player F for $5. As stated previously,
>> John's $30 bid for Player F was invalid because his bid would have
>> exceeded his FAAB budget.
>> The last player to be auctioned is Player D. Both Larry and Sam
>> have equal bids of $5 for Player D. Sam wins the bid for Player D
>> because he is higher in the FAAB order. John had dropped to the
>> bottom of the FAAB order by winning his previous bid. Sam drops to
>> the bottom of the FAAB order and $5 is subtracted from his FAAB
>> budget.
>> Player E is not auctioned because Joe no longer has Player R to
>> drop and there aren't any other bids for Player E. If Joe had a
>> different player to drop Player E would have been auctioned.
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