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<Pion> · 12-05-2018, 12:04 PM

I never realize the extent to which prices in the AH were driven up by speculators and not necessarily managers who no longer wanted a player or were fed up with a player.

First let me say that I've never before been in a game where players are put up for auction like this, so it's been a bit of a learning curve. Last night was the first time I tracked a player being re-sold multiple times by owners with (most likely) no intent on playing him. In this example, a player caught my eye with a Buy Now price or 15K. I looked at other players first to make sure I wanted him and that something else wasn't more attractive. By the time I got back to him (5 minutes later), the time remaining on the player had changed from under 10 hours to 48 hours and the BIN price was 18K instead of 15K. My first thought was that it was a different version of the same player, but looking at purchase history, the highest price paid (which was zero the first time I looked) now matched the previous BIN of 15K. This morning, the same player now has a BIN of 30K with time remaining of less than 12 hours and the avg purchase price is the same as the two BINs I saw before divided by two. So it definitely looks like the same player was bought and re-sold twice with the BIN going from 15K to 18K to 30K.

The people who do this are certainly within their rights and not violating any rules (that I know of), so not making a judgement here. Only saying that I didn't realize how much speculating there could be going on like it was some kind of stock or gold market. And even though they aren't people, I felt a twinge of sadness for the player being bounced around and not getting a chance to play (yet), though hopefully a price will be settled on some day and someone will give him some PT.

12-05-2018, 12:04 PM	#1
<Pion> All Star Starter Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,428	Auction House Speculators I never realize the extent to which prices in the AH were driven up by speculators and not necessarily managers who no longer wanted a player or were fed up with a player. First let me say that I've never before been in a game where players are put up for auction like this, so it's been a bit of a learning curve. Last night was the first time I tracked a player being re-sold multiple times by owners with (most likely) no intent on playing him. In this example, a player caught my eye with a Buy Now price or 15K. I looked at other players first to make sure I wanted him and that something else wasn't more attractive. By the time I got back to him (5 minutes later), the time remaining on the player had changed from under 10 hours to 48 hours and the BIN price was 18K instead of 15K. My first thought was that it was a different version of the same player, but looking at purchase history, the highest price paid (which was zero the first time I looked) now matched the previous BIN of 15K. This morning, the same player now has a BIN of 30K with time remaining of less than 12 hours and the avg purchase price is the same as the two BINs I saw before divided by two. So it definitely looks like the same player was bought and re-sold twice with the BIN going from 15K to 18K to 30K. The people who do this are certainly within their rights and not violating any rules (that I know of), so not making a judgement here. Only saying that I didn't realize how much speculating there could be going on like it was some kind of stock or gold market. And even though they aren't people, I felt a twinge of sadness for the player being bounced around and not getting a chance to play (yet), though hopefully a price will be settled on some day and someone will give him some PT.