Social Wrighty presents Forum Sheep game for 2024 - Round One starts Dec 26

[Wrighty]

If you choose a player and make a bid is that binding and final? Ie can you withdraw your player and bid before closing? I'm assuming you can't remove them so it makes it fair for everyone and makes you give more consideration to your picks and bids

You can not cancel a bid.
I will add that to the rules. So please be careful.
With one exception - if you cancel it absolutely immediately before anyone else posts. Like within 5 minutes.

If you do withdraw the bid immediately - DO NOT DELETE YOUR POST. Make a new post and say you withdraw the bid.

NO DELETING OF ANY POSTS IN THE GAME - if you say something wrong then post a correction of what you meant to say and or apologise etc.

I will add this to the rules.

FOR EXAMPLE

CONTESTANT ONE - $150,000 for Bradley Clyde
Inruin - $200,000 for Clyde
Contestant three $300,000 for Clyde

Inruin - actually I posted by mistake I apologise for bidding at all.

Auction closes
Contestant three wins for $300,000 when if Inruin had not have posted Contestant three could have won for much less.

Thanks for spotting this loop hole Inruin. I will adjust the detailed rules accordingly.

 

[Mr. Brownstone]

Hey Wrighty what about the scenario where it is a silent bidding round & 2 contestants bid exactly the same price for a player? First in first served?

 

[Wrighty]

Hey Wrighty what about the scenario where it is a silent bidding round & 2 contestants bid exactly the same price for a player? First in first served?

There is a rule for that already. Nobody gets the player in case of a tied bid in silent auction.
Bids are $100K minimum and are to be rounded to the nearest $1,000. So you are encouraged in the silent auction to bid numbers like $367,000 for Bradley Clyde rather than $400,000 to avoid picking a number that someone else picks.
Using increments of $1,000 for bids should see us avoid tied bidding on most occassions.

 

[Wrighty]

I would like some feedback.

The auctions will start each morning, no stress or drama just when then the roundmaster gets up for the day and posts the question and whether it is a silent or open auction. I was thinking of closing the bidding between 5 and 6pm each day. Is that ok? or is 4pm -5pm better or 6pm-7pm better?

 

[wizard of Tauranga]

You can not cancel a bid.
I will add that to the rules. So please be careful.
With one exception - if you cancel it absolutely immediately before anyone else posts. Like within 5 minutes.

If you do withdraw the bid immediately - DO NOT DELETE YOUR POST. Make a new post and say you withdraw the bid.

NO DELETING OF ANY POSTS IN THE GAME - if you say something wrong then post a correction of what you meant to say and or apologise etc.

I will add this to the rules.

FOR EXAMPLE

CONTESTANT ONE - $150,000 for Bradley Clyde
Inruin - $200,000 for Clyde
Contestant three $300,000 for Clyde

Inruin - actually I posted by mistake I apologise for bidding at all.

Auction closes
Contestant three wins for $300,000 when if Inruin had not have posted Contestant three could have won for much less.

Thanks for spotting this loop hole Inruin. I will adjust the detailed rules accordingly.

You understand inruins tactics well…

 

[wizard of Tauranga]

There is a rule for that already. Nobody gets the player in case of a tied bid in silent auction.
Bids are $100K minimum and are to be rounded to the nearest $1,000. So you are encouraged in the silent auction to bid numbers like $367,000 for Bradley Clyde rather than $400,000 to avoid picking a number that someone else picks.
Using increments of $1,000 for bids should see us avoid tied bidding on most occassions.

Wasn’t there a minimum of $10k increases in bids or was that my imagination? $1k is much better

 

[Wrighty]

Wasn’t there a minimum of $10k increases in bids or was that my imagination? $1k is much better

It was $10K. You have a good memory. I changed it to $1K increases in bids to give contestants more freedom.

 

[Inruin]

Wasn’t there a minimum of $10k increases in bids or was that my imagination? $1k is much better

keep up mate....

 

[wizard of Tauranga]

keep up mate....

Say that when I’ve got JAC blitzing your dud outside backs

 

[Inruin]

Say that when I’ve got JAC blitzing your dud outside backs

Good try mate but he isn't a halfback so wont be making your team

 

[wizard of Tauranga]

Good try mate but he isn't a halfback so wont be making your team

I’ve got a different theme this game.

Not a team full of players starting with J; not a team full of halves.

A team of… ???

 

[Defence]

I would like some feedback.

The auctions will start each morning, no stress or drama just when then the roundmaster gets up for the day and posts the question and whether it is a silent or open auction. I was thinking of closing the bidding between 5 and 6pm each day. Is that ok? or is 4pm -5pm better or 6pm-7pm better?

is this nz time?

 

[Wrighty]

is this nz time?

Yes - what works well for you based on your time zone?

 

[Defence]

Yes - what works well for you based on your time zone?

Probably a bit later but I can work around whatever time suits the masses.

 

[Wrighty]

Probably a bit later but I can work around whatever time suits the masses.

How about 6-7pm NZ time. That is 3-4pm Queensland time?

 

[Mr. Brownstone]

I would like some feedback.

The auctions will start each morning, no stress or drama just when then the roundmaster gets up for the day and posts the question and whether it is a silent or open auction. I was thinking of closing the bidding between 5 and 6pm each day. Is that ok? or is 4pm -5pm better or 6pm-7pm better?

6-7pm is starting to get well into festive drinking & eating time in NZ

 

[Wrighty]

6-7pm is starting to get well into festive drinking & eating time in NZ

The thread will randomly close sometime between 6pm and 7pm so your bids should really be in by 6pm latest or you risk not getting them in at all. After 7pm I will compile the results then sometime around 7.45pm will unlock the thread and post the outcomes for discussion.
If we go with earlier in the day closing time it becomes hard for our australian competitors who are three hours behind us.

 

[Mr. Brownstone]

The thread will randomly close sometime between 6pm and 7pm so your bids should really be in by 6pm latest or you risk not getting them in at all. After 7pm I will compile the results then sometime around 7.45pm will unlock the thread and post the outcomes for discussion.
If we go with earlier in the day closing time it becomes hard for our australian competitors who are three hours behind us.

That all sounds good, looking forward to it & as always wrighty thanks heaps for organising. Sounds a bit ridiculous, however I don’t reckon the festive season / holiday period is quite the same without a bit of warriors forum competitive spirit in the form of these games!

 

[Wrighty]

That all sounds good, looking forward to it & as always wrighty thanks heaps for organising. Sounds a bit ridiculous, however I don’t reckon the festive season / holiday period is quite the same without a bit of warriors forum competitive spirit in the form of these games!

Thanks Mr B. Big thanks to all of the competitors for supporting the games of the years. Big Ups to tajhay for supporting the games with technical help. Big Ups to one or two you who I know are busy this holidays but playing anyway just to support the game.

It takes me a number of months to come up with the ideas for these games by the way. I have half an idea, then I leave it for a month or so then work on it some more until I have the engine room of the game figured out.
This year the proof will be the pudding but I have designed the game with room for a lot of strategising and skill. I am not expecting luck to much of a factor in who wins this game and expect those who can observe the first few rounds carefully to rise to the top.

As a final comment have always remembered Defence commenting how much fun he had during the first game (the general managers competition) and that he was standing in line up at a hardware store, clicking refresh on his phone as new posts kept coming in and his bother in law asked him what he was doing. Defence started to explain then gave up, as explaining you are part of a forum game and how it works to a neutral person can not be done successfully (I know I have tried).

 

[Wrighty]

My favourite game of all time was the general managers game. But it was so intense. I only want to do it once every ten years at most. There was a new post every 60 seconds for the two weeks of the game. Madness. tajhay was Isaac Mosses and the league commissioner Haha.