[USML Announce] FAAB results question

Andy Klein anrklein at gmail.com
Sun Aug 1 10:41:37 EDT 2021


We should let Commissioner Blocker weigh in on this.  But, honestly, I
can't recall that he has ever overriden Onroto on a bidding issue.

-Andy

On Sun, Aug 1, 2021 at 10:26 AM Frank Luby <zachfehsvater at yahoo.com> wrote:

> We override Onroto in other situations though.
>
> Well, it will suck to lose because I haven’t been in the league long
> enough to know the secrets codes and handshakes.
>
> Like I said … anything else unwritten that I’ve been misinformed or
> uniformed about?
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Aug 1, 2021, at 9:20 AM, Andy Klein <anrklein at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 
> There are other issues like this, I think, where we have consistently
> deferred to onoto.com for processing transactions. If we update the
> rules, we should just add that:  "In any instance regarding the processing
> of transactions, our stat service trumps anything in the Constitution."
> But, again, I am pretty confident we have been doing this for years.
>
> On Sun, Aug 1, 2021 at 10:16 AM Frank Luby <zachfehsvater at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hmmm … Any other unwritten rules?
>>
>> Anecdotally I have heard it explained differently and in line with the
>> Constitution, namely, that low primary (non-contingent) bids trump
>> contingent buds, even if the latter are higher.
>>
>> We’ll see eventually whether this makes a difference, but we’re in a
>> close race. Can we now explicitly document this rule and, while we’re at
>> it,  any other unofficial ones?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
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>> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Aug 1, 2021, at 9:10 AM, Frank Luby <zachfehsvater at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> But the rules are different in the Constitution.
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>> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Aug 1, 2021, at 8:50 AM, springkerb--- via Announce <announce at usml.net>
>> wrote:
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>> Exactly.  Onroto processes the bids in order of bid blocks (I think), so
>> somebody's second choice in their first bid block (contingent) actually
>> comes ahead of somebody else's first choice in their second bid block.  So
>> this is one of the situations in which we let onroto do its thing even
>> though it departs from the written rules.  I once whined and complained
>> about this, but we decided not to try to override the system.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Andy Klein <anrklein at gmail.com>
>> To: USML Announcements <announce at usml.net>
>> Sent: Sun, Aug 1, 2021 8:39 am
>> Subject: Re: [USML Announce] FAAB results question
>>
>> I'm pretty sure that's how the onroto system works. If a contingent bid
>> comes into play, it competes with primary bids and the higher one wins.  My
>> dim memory is that we once had our own rule that was opposite, but decided
>> to let the system do its thing and not have Mark have to unwind things like
>> this.
>>
>> -Andy
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 1, 2021 at 9:33 AM Frank Luby via Announce <announce at usml.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Good morning all,
>>
>> Interesting round of bidding, as always.
>>
>> But I don’t understand why the Brats got Garcia with a contingent bid
>> when I made a non-contingent bid for him.
>>
>> How does that work?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Frank
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
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