No Wizards. Haha. Good try though.[wrighty]the round rules says ‘played’ in the…. Laurie Daley was a coach so ‘played’ a part in the game. Is this an acceptable bid to put the cat amungst the pidgins. Black sheep play[/wrighty]
I like how you roll and your $1M bid got the show underway in style. Well done.
Not trying to be difficult here but doesnt this open up the ability (and the competitive part of me would definitely consider this) just before the round shuts im looking at who has put in black sheep bids (regardless wither their 12 miliion or 100k), im putting in matching bids (even tho i have no interest in wanting those players) cause i dont want my competitors getting an extra 400k?
Yes -but while that might stop them getting them as a black sheep pick they can counter bid you and raise their bid and still get that player just not as a black sheep. Remember you can only tie bid a particular player once so you can use a tie bid to stymie an attempt on a black sheep but you can't keep stymieing that player repeatedly if that makes sense.
Seen as the rules have now changed AFTER i bid, can I change my blocking bid for Latrell Mitchell to only match it?
No 5 minutes have passed. You can edit a bid in 5 minutes only. (and only if no one else has relied or reacted to your bid)
But the blocking and matching bid rules were introduced hours after I bid
Sorry. You choose to make that $1.01m bid and it is not so excesive that you will be under water if you end up with him. You are still well in the game. I would put Latrell at centre and not full back in your line up. $1M is not so out of whack that I need to intervene in proceedings.
Gun player. Multiple people will outbid us anyway!
Yeah i understand that.
The silent auctions are going to determine the black sheep bonuses. Everyone should be matching bids as much as possible in the open rounds to stop any advantage extra cash gives
Even if we didn't allow matching bids to stymie black sheep in the open auctions it was eventually going to dawn on all of you from a game theory perspective that you needed to stop black sheep at all costs even if that meant outbidding by $1K to make them bid again if they really wanted that player. Game theory demanded that you as contestants find a way to limit them as they are so game changing. Understand my drift?
I guess thats what you had to weigh up tho....spoiling a black sheep pick v the risk of ending up with a player you didnt really want.
The reason we didn't run with relying on $1K increments to stymie black sheep is because of the use case M Brownstown found of someone bidding $10M on Brandon Smith and no one daring to go $10.001M - when we do the game review we will think of a better approach. Inruin suggested the reward for a black sheep pick should be a deduction of $400K off the price and while this may be a better suggestion for next time it is fundamentally a different game and the strategy has been cast on this for months now. Next time we can make some changes. This will be fun its own way and you will all come to enjoy it. As you say you are happy to let it play out. Thanks for being chill
yes but the day is starting to get on and I don't want to end up infracting them.
