County Fantasy Manager 2013

[ntini77]

All rounder valuations

[ntini77]

Bowler valuations

[andy]

cheers mate

[andy]

ive sent 3 bids

are these the players avalable for every round, or are there others that will be thrown in as the auction goes on?

[Red Devil]

Auction/Lottery

Firstly, I’ll explain the logic of the auction and player lottery. I wanted teams to get the top players by tactics, rather than just by luck. That’s why we’re doing the opening auction. Players are valued between £10,000 to £100,000, and everyone has £500,000 to spend on the players who they would like. If you want to go after the top players, that may hinder your ability to get a good squad all round. That is your choice of tactics. I suspect the £500,000 will buy most teams around 6 or 7 players.

The rest of your squad will be decided by a lottery. You will be given a budget post-auction of roughly £800,000 + anything you don’t spend in the auction. This will then decide what players you get. The more money you have for the lottery and the less players you need to buy, the better the players you will get. You have no control over the lottery beyond that though: there is a balance between spending a lot of money on the best players, and getting a team with the talented players more evenly distributed through it.

Adi, does this help explain things a bit better?

Thanks, i see it was posted before and i did not read it properly. I have sent the bids.

I have to say that i do think the auction makes it all about luck rather than tactics. Given that our players are playing on paper rather than on the filed, it is not a massive problem if you happen to have some of the same players in your team. We can look at it again for other comps, but it may be less about luck if players have fixed costs and you pick your players based on a total max budget - sort of like the cricinfo league. But maybe I'm also just not fully understanding this yet and it will all work out wonderfully.

Either way, I have submitted my first bids

[ianp1970]

My first round bids are:

Nash, CD Sussex £80,000
Stokes, BA Durham £80,000
Magoffin, SJ Sussex £80,000
Adams, AR Nottinghamshire £70,000
Wheater, AJ Hampshire £50,000
Hogg, KW Lancashire £40,000
Evans, L Warwickshire £30,000
Harris, JAR Middlesex £30,000
Pyrah, RM Yorkshire £20,000
Hannon-Dalby, OJ Yorkshire £10,000

I am now going to open all the PMs while I have my dinner then post the results.

Good luck everyone

[ianp1970]

There are several joint equal highest bids in the first round. I have randomly allocated all managers a 2 digit number to use as a tie-breaker: if the sum of the numbers is odd the first team alphabetically will be designated as the highest bid, and if the sum is even then it will be the second team alphabetically. In the case of a 3-way tie, the largest number of the three will have the highest bid.

NB: as RD hasn't given a team name they will simply be Red Devils for this purpose.

[ianp1970]

Ok, first round bids have been processed and these are the results:

[dan08]

Ian, i chose Azhar Ullah, not Azhar Mahmood.

[ianp1970]

Current leading bids:

[Chris de Burgh]

Outbid on Troughton and Williamson

[ianp1970]

Ian, i chose Azhar Ullah, not Azhar Mahmood.

Sorry, will adjust.

[ianp1970]

Auction

Okay. This is how the auction is going to work:

Round 2

In this round people have the chance to outbid the leading bidder. If nobody outbids the leading bidder, that player is won.

Players can also bid for anyone who wasn't bidded for in round 1. If they are the only one, they will win that player. (it would be logical for people to only bid list price for the players who didn't receive a bid in round 1.)

Deadline for round 2 bids is 8pm tomorrow.

As for the first round, I will send out PMs that can be replied to.

Cheers

Ian

ps. Hope all is becoming slightly clearer

[ianp1970]

If you have been outbid on a player in the first round, then you will keep that money in your budget:



You can use this to bid in round 2, or keep until later on if you prefer.

[Red Devil]

wow! Hogan and Harris are incredible bargains from round 1!!

I wish I'd left more money in the backpocket now!