Major league auction salary cap and no bids

[Deleted]

Couple things I want to be clear on for the major league auction:

1. The maximum amount of money we can spend in the auction is 90 mil minus the total salary of the minor league players we drafted, correct? For example, I can only spend 82.5 mil since I have 15 minor leaguers at 500k each.


2. The way I understand the no bid rule is that we really only have to spend our money on 23 players, since we can no bid a maximum of 2 players and get them free. If this is the case then do the no bid players get a minimum contract (400k) after the draft? I think I asked about this before a while ago, so sorry if I'm making you guys re-explain it to me.

[Ft. Myers Marauders]

1. is correct

2. Don't worry too much about no bids. The only reason you can nominate a player with a no-bid is if you have one or two roster spots remaining, but have current high-bids on that same amount of players. We require everyone to have 1 nomination up at all times, so the only way you can continue to put players up for nomination in this situation is to place a no-bid.
-No-bids really only come into play towards the end of the auction. People can use them strategically, yet unethically, which we'll keep from happening. We don't like snakes.

[Deleted]

Thanks for the explanation. I was thinking maybe someone (not me!) could use the no bid rule to stretch the salary cap a bit more. Understandably that would be very frowned upon for even thinking about doing so (which I did not!).

[Newcastle Red Star]

Jan 26, 2016 20:59:36 GMT @jkolodziej5 said:

Thanks for the explanation. I was thinking maybe someone (not me!) could use the no bid rule to stretch the salary cap a bit more. Understandably that would be very frowned upon for even thinking about doing so (which I did not!).

Don't think so - and presumably someone else would just come in and bid the minimum if they had $ remaining, so you wouldn't get the player on a free.

[Ft. Myers Marauders]

A monetary bid has to be placed for a player to be won. If a player is nominated with a no-bid, and no other owner places a monetary bid, after 24 hours the player will return to the available player pool. No free lunch.

The quicker you forget no-bids exist, the better. We shouldn't have even mentioned them until the end of the auction.

[Oregon Three Lions of Madison]

Ryan is right. No bids can be disgusting horrible things...haha. Used properly at the end of the auction they are friendly and harmless. Any other time they are ugly and mean. Don't let ugly mean things take over your brain during the auction.