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AllSimBaseball Free Agent Auction 1.0
AllSimBaseball Free Agent Auction 1.0 First of all, I’d like to say thank you to Phil Barrett, Mets GM in my online league(pbar25 on the OOTP boards). He was a tremendous help in not only testing but throwingout idea after idea that helped shape over half of this utility. My hat is off to him and I thank him for his time. I’d also like to say thanks to Tony M, who is a moderator on the OOTP boards for giving me advice and pointing me in the right direction when I was looking for mySQL queries that were a bit off the beaten path. Thanks Tony!! Here is a rundown of what it it provides... Members Area:
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That’s all, I hope you get use out of this thing. I already have some things I want to add for version 1.1 because this tool was pretty much developed with my own online league in mind. I realize that not all online leagues use our rules so this is an area which will be addressed in the next updates. EDIT: Additions and changes made as of Jan. 20, 2011. are in red. EDIT: Additions made as of Feb. 19, 2011 are in blue. EDIT: Additions made as of October 8, 2011 are in green. EDIT: Additions made as of December 29, 2011 are in purple. EDIT: Additions made as of May 1, 2012 are in Sienna Download version 1.0.7 is HERE. Update Package 1.0.7 to 1.0.8 is HERE.
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After FA is over, how are the players actually signed in the game? I assume this does not move the signed players to their new teams in the game.
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In my league we run have run an auction via the boards for 40 seasons( 6 real life years) and the commissioner(me) waded through the posts and signed players in-game via the player editor. It's one of the unique aspects that we love because free agents can't say "no". This tool simply organizes everything, provides guidance(especially for new league members) and warnings when time limits have passed or are near, does a lot of math for members and admins so auction rules can be adhered to more easily. An online league that might want to use this would need to set rules such as: 1. number of bids a team is allowed to place on a particular FA(my league sets it at 3) 2. a % that a counter-bid must add to a previous bid total.(my league sets it at 10% above the previous bid) 3. number of hours a valid bid must stand without being counter-bid, in order to sign that player At the end, the commissioner only needs to look at the Signed Contracts page, in order to assign FA's in game accordingly, because that list is concise as far as contract details he needs.
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I will post some screenshots tomorrow.
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Exactly.
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How does the app handle different lengths of contracs? Can you set the amount required to raise the bid, ie 10%?
EDIT - Can an opening bid be set? Last edited by Cooleyvol; 01-09-2011 at 11:07 AM. |
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Also, let's say the top bid is 50K for a guy and I bid 70K. Does the bid amount automatically go to 70K or does it increase the 50K by 10%. That seems logical to keep people from having to continually bid and wear out their certain number of bids on a guy. Just trying to cover all my bases before I install this. Last edited by Cooleyvol; 01-09-2011 at 01:27 PM. |
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Before a GM places a bid it will state the minimum bid required for a player (10% greater then current leading bid), but a GM can always bid whatever amount they like. So at times a GM can step in with a monster offer that is never outbid. Regarding setting the opening bid.....at the moment you can't do that, it might be a good idea to implement it. But that would be a lot of work when entering in the free agents each off season -- as you'd have to look at each player and determine a value yourself. In our league the market has always corrected itself once the bids start rolling in. The rule in Fidel's league is we simply have a minimum major league contract allowed ($350K I believe), so no opening bid is considered valid unless it meets that requirement. It allows small market teams, and large market teams too, the ability to find some cheap contracts if the market isn't there for that particular player.
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I understand the request, but abstractly it's a public offer to a player's agent. So in baseball terms, I just don't see them lowering the amount they'd sign for after it's offered. I'd think back to the ARod Texas deal...I'm sure Hicks would have liked if he could have gotten it reduced to $1 more then the next highest offer. I believe on Ebay the max bid is not displayed to others? The biggest issue with that scenario within an open bidding system is this: If you bid $50 MAX, and I see it....I'm going to bid $49 MAX so you don't get any type of deal. So the deal you are looking for would be countered by other aggressive owners paying attention. In a nutshell: If I know you only have to pay $1 more then the 2nd highest bid, I'd just make the 2nd highest bid $1 less then your bid since I'd risk nothing.
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Is there somewhere I can see this in action? Like are the players somehow linked to their HTML page? Stuff like that.
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No HTML links to the player pages. It wouldn't be hard to create a place for admins to add links to the players but at this time, we simply made this tool to take the place of our forum auction, which required lots of hand-holding for new guys and plenty of errant bids by miscalculation of timestamps and/or bid totals by even some of our veteran league members. This tool also eliminates the amount of sifting through posts and scrolling through individual threads for valid and invalid bids for the guys in our league that monitor our FA period. at the end of Free Agency, the admins on our forum close threads like this. Now that work will also be unnecessary.
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In an open auction(keyword being "open"), which this would be used for, hidden max bids are not necessary and would defeat the purpose of an open auction. In ebay that is simply used so you don't have to keep watching the bids as they come in. We actually want GM's to keep watch. Also, ebay sets an expiry time/data on item auctions, this system does not. Instead of Tuesday at midnight being the deadline for bids, lets say, the deadline always resets to 24 hours(or 12 depending on the rules) according to a counter-bid's timestamp. So theoretically, bidding could go on for three months if every team wanted a player, had enough money and waited out 23 hours and 59 minutes before counter-bidding(30 teams x 3 bids each x 24 hours) one by one. But the most we've ever had bidding go on for a free agent in our league is about 6 days when GM's are really working their strategies and trying to land a top end free agent and they finally run out of bids. Average is 3-4 days for most players.
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Working on a small shoutbox for the index page. I think that might be a fun addition.
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Something that might be fun would be a 'widget' like in statslab that would show the previous 5 bids. This code could be added to the website. I don't know if its doable, but its an idea.
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