County Fantasy Manager 2014

[ianp1970]

Budget available for round 2:



Note: if you have the leading bid in round one this is not a guarantee of securing the player, you might need to cover another bid from round two. If you spend all of your remaining money successfully in this round, then someone else might overtake your first round bid.

Deadline for 2nd round bids is now Midday Saturday 5th April.

Any questions, please ask

[ianp1970]

Your number will be the first digit of the 2nd (thanks Sussex ) bid you made in the auction

cricketfan90 = 5
Durhamfootman = 1
ianp1970 = 4
ntini77 = 1
Red Devil = 1
SaintPowelly = 6
st_brendy = 2
sussexpob = 8

Everyone below you, you get evens, everyone above you, you get odds.

The link might have over-complicated things .

The way these tiebreakers have been decided:

The 2 chosen numers are added together, if the outcome is odd then the higher player wins (Ntini over Red or Sussex, but Durham over Ntini) and if the outcome is even the lower player wins (Ntini over Durham or Ian, but Sussex over Ntini.) The number was "picked" by Sussex's choice of 2.

Sorry for any confusion

[ianp1970]

First round leading bids:

[Durhamfootman]

I still don't get it, I'm afraid. I now don't understand why I beat powelly, because his number is higher than mine as well.

Anyway.... not to worry. As I said earlier I'm happy to accept your decision. I don't want to bog you down in what looks like a challenging and time consuming league to run

[ianp1970]

I still don't get it, I'm afraid. I now don't understand why I beat powelly, because his number is higher than mine as well.

Anyway.... not to worry. As I said earlier I'm happy to accept your decision. I don't want to bog you down in what looks like a challenging and time consuming league to run

DFM =1

Powelly = 6

Sum = 7

Total is ODD so higher number in table wins (ie. (F)ootmen is before (P)owelly in alphabet) - it doesn't matter too much, however, if you want the player enough then you can bid more in round 2

I confess that despite being initially quite timorous, bewildered and rather befuddled, I find myself beginning to look forward to this quite a bit, albeit still very befuddled.

You'll enjoy it, it was easily the best FL last year. Been waiting all winter for it to return.

Appreciated

[Red Devil]

Apologies if I have missed this somewhere but can we have a list of the teams as they stand after the tie-breakers. I am not entirely clear on which players I have at the moment.

[sussexpob]

Apologies if I have missed this somewhere but can we have a list of the teams as they stand after the tie-breakers. I am not entirely clear on which players I have at the moment.

He posted a list at about 8 last night Red. The list does include players you lost on tiebreakers, but if you go below that it lists the tiebreaker win loss as well..

790k left!!! Well that was a fail, more than half my bids failed!!!!

[SaintPowelly]

I am super confused, I thought if you had the outright leading bid in R1, the player was yours ? and thats the benefit of big offers early.

[ianp1970]

I am super confused, I thought if you had the outright leading bid in R1, the player was yours ? and thats the benefit of big offers early.

The outright leading bid in round one guarantees you the chance to win the player.

If someone outbids you in round 2, then you have the opportunity to bid an additional £10K in round 3 to buy the player.

It is exactly the same process as last year.

Hope that makes sense

[SaintPowelly]

I am super confused, I thought if you had the outright leading bid in R1, the player was yours ? and thats the benefit of big offers early.

The outright leading bid in round one guarantees you the chance to win the player.

If someone outbids you in round 2, then you have the opportunity to bid an additional £10K in round 3 to buy the player.

It is exactly the same process as last year.

Hope that makes sense

I get it now, thanks.

[ianp1970]

Apologies if I have missed this somewhere but can we have a list of the teams as they stand after the tie-breakers. I am not entirely clear on which players I have at the moment.

I will tidy these up after work, it was getting a bit late last night!

[Durhamfootman]

Total is ODD so higher number in table wins (ie. (F)ootmen is before (P)owelly in alphabet) - it doesn't matter too much, however, if you want the player enough then you can bid more in round 2

right. that's where I've got confused. I hadn't realised that there was an alphabetical element to it, I thought it was just about numbers

thanks ian. Now I understand

[Durhamfootman]

Carry on.... you're doing a fine job

I'll try to keep up (you might regret talking me into this before the end... I am very dim, after all), but you might have to do a lot of this to get me through the process.... and probably some of this too

if only there was a 'Fawlty poking Manuel in the eye' emoticon "Footman.... let me explain!"

[ntini77]

My squad could be rather fast bowler heavy I've just realised.

[andy]

So i technically may have only signed 1 player thus far..

also what is round 2? Is it still bidding on players from round 1, just trying to increase the bids?