Fantasy Euro 2012(Auction)

Kylo Ren

manual_man wrote: »

Just click in to your team. Auction page should come right up

Thanks man.

Lads I just heard the entire Germany team have been diagnosed with some sort of super virus. I won't get into the complexities of it all, but I would steer well clear of them when bidding.

Kylo Ren

What are the bidding denominations?

I assume they have to be of 0.5? What is the least amount you can bid?

Munster Magic

Keno 92 wrote: »

What are the bidding denominations?
I assume they have to be of 0.5? What is the least amount you can bid?

Yes they go up 0.5 each time and you can bid 0.0 if you want to try get a player for free

carlcon

Keno 92 wrote: »

What are the bidding denominations?

I assume they have to be of 0.5? What is the least amount you can bid?

Use this team entry screen to select a squad. Your league rules are shown below:
Ensure that the squad is within the £ 100 m auction budget.
Ensure that you do not have more than 3 players from any one country.
Make sure you have enough players to to field a starting eleven in one of your leagues recognised formations 4-4-2, 5-3-2, 4-3-3.
Click on the player on the left hand side to add them to your team.

After adding a player, click the price to enter a bid value. You bid will be rounded to your leagues 'bid increment' which is £ 0.5 m.

After selecting your team, click submit to proceed.

My only question is what happens if not enough of my defender bids win, and I have 5 striker bids accepted. Which strikers do I get? The most expensive? The least contested?

manual_man

Munster Magic wrote: »

Keno 92 wrote: »

What are the bidding denominations?
I assume they have to be of 0.5? What is the least amount you can bid?

Yes they go up 0.5 each time and you can bid 0.0 if you want to try get a player for free

From being on the site i'm guessing you have to make all your 15 bids at once. Is this right???

manual_man

carlcon wrote: »

Keno 92 wrote: »

What are the bidding denominations?

I assume they have to be of 0.5? What is the least amount you can bid?

Use this team entry screen to select a squad. Your league rules are shown below:
Ensure that the squad is within the £ 100 m auction budget.
Ensure that you do not have more than 3 players from any one country.
Make sure you have enough players to to field a starting eleven in one of your leagues recognised formations 4-4-2, 5-3-2, 4-3-3.
Click on the player on the left hand side to add them to your team.

After adding a player, click the price to enter a bid value. You bid will be rounded to your leagues 'bid increment' which is £ 0.5 m.

After selecting your team, click submit to proceed.

My only question is what happens if not enough of my defender bids win, and I have 5 striker bids accepted. Which strikers do I get? The most expensive? The least contested?

From what i can see you can only bid for 3 strikers

You must bid as follows 2-5-5-3

Munster Magic correct me if i'm wrong

carlcon

manual_man wrote: »

From what i can see you can only bid for 3 strikers

You must bid as follows 2-5-5-3

Munster Magic correct me if i'm wrong

I can't find it in the rules. From what I've read, my interpretation is that if you don't have enough for one position, tough. Your team will have to have one of those legal formations, and you'll just be left with an empty space in defence and a bunch of strikers/midfielders on the bench if you don't win enough defender bids. Can't see anything about limiting the amount you can bid on in a certain position.

swoody

carlcon wrote: »

My only question is what happens if not enough of my defender bids win, and I have 5 striker bids accepted. Which strikers do I get? The most expensive? The least contested?

carlcon wrote: »

I can't find it in the rules. From what I've read, my interpretation is that if you don't have enough for one position, tough. Your team will have to have one of those legal formations, and you'll just be left with an empty space in defence and a bunch of strikers/midfielders on the bench if you don't win enough defender bids. Can't see anything about limiting the amount you can bid on in a certain position.

my understanding is, if you have over compensated in attack and have limited numbers in defence or midfield you then go to the free market and transfer out what you have and bring in what you need......i may be wrong though

Munster Magic

manual_man wrote: »

From what i can see you can only bid for 3 strikers

You must bid as follows 2-5-5-3

Munster Magic correct me if i'm wrong

Ya, thats right, you can only bid for 3 strikers

carlcon

Haha, crap. I've got 5 strikers on my current bidding list. I guess it just wouldn't have let me click "submit" when I tried.

Back to the drawing board!

swoody

man, this is harder then i thought....how are you lot evaluating your bids?

Kylo Ren

I have mine done there.

Munster Magic

carlcon wrote: »

Haha, crap. I've got 5 strikers on my current bidding list. I guess it just wouldn't have let me click "submit" when I tried.

Back to the drawing board!

Well Im only on the phone now so cant really look but I assume that it wouldnt let you. Try it there with Carroll, Defoe, Walters and Cox and see if it works???

carlcon

Keno 92 wrote: »

I have mine done there.

Does it let you go back and edit?

Kylo Ren

carlcon wrote: »

Does it let you go back and edit?

It does indeed.

andrewg82

thats an interesting process!! fair play for getting it up and running

swoody

is it 2 or 3 players we can have for the groups?

carlcon

It just let me submit a 2-4-5-4, so I don't think the 2-5-5-3 thing is correct.

I'll try again with another set-up... Yup, same again. Let me save a 2-4-4-5 and a 1-4-4-6.

So the presumption that you can bid on anything, but then have to face the consequences when you're faced with one of the 3 legal formations, is pretty much correct from what I can see.

So you can bid on a bunch of strikers for 1m each if you like, and face the gamble of winning none, winning all and having no defenders/midfielders, or winning the perfect amount. Makes things much more interesting, although also more difficult to balance.

carlcon

swoody wrote: »

is it 2 or 3 players we can have for the groups?

The most it'll let you pick is 3. The team goes grey when you have 3 players from it.

manual_man

Tryingtogetplayersonthecheap.com

swoody

manual_man wrote: »

Tryingtogetplayersonthecheap.com

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Skippy44

Bids submitted. Best of luck everyone!!

manual_man

Skippy44 wrote: »

Bids submitted. Best of luck everyone!!

Same. I'm not sure i'll get more than 2 players but what the hey

carlcon

I've got my initial bids in too, just in case I don't get a chance to log on Sunday, but I'm sure I've many changes to make.

I really want to discuss all the different potential tactics for bidding, but also don't want to give anything away. :cool:

Should be a good laugh when the first round results come in. I bet it'll end terribly for most. Hehe.

Copper_pipe

All im gonna say is that I still have 17.00 million remaining

Chips Ahoy

carlcon wrote: »

I've got my initial bids in too, just in case I don't get a chance to log on Sunday, but I'm sure I've many changes to make.

I really want to discuss all the different potential tactics for bidding, but also don't want to give anything away. :cool:

Should be a good laugh when the first round results come in. I bet it'll end terribly for most. Hehe.

It might turn into a situation where everyone stays away from the bigger players
due to tactical bidding and some lucky person will get them on the cheap.

wish it was just one big league then the transfers would be really interesting.

manual_man

Chips Ahoy wrote: »

carlcon wrote: »

I've got my initial bids in too, just in case I don't get a chance to log on Sunday, but I'm sure I've many changes to make.

I really want to discuss all the different potential tactics for bidding, but also don't want to give anything away. :cool:

Should be a good laugh when the first round results come in. I bet it'll end terribly for most. Hehe.

It might turn into a situation where everyone stays away from the bigger players
due to tactical bidding and some lucky person will get them on the cheap.

wish it was just one big league then the transfers would be really interesting.

There's many different ways to bid. Ay

carlcon

There are probably 2 ways most people will go:

1. Gamble big money on a few big players. Invest everything in 5 or 6 players from Germany, Spain, Holland, etc, then throw 0.5 at some average players nobody else is likely to have.
   
2. Spread your money across the board on "2nd tier" players. Kuyt instead of Sneijder. Albiol instead of Pique. Etc. That way you'll have a much better chance of getting your first choice at a decent price, instead of having your choices outbid by someone throwing stupid money at them (nobody is going to drop 12m on Kuyt), which should ultimately leave you in a better position for later bidding rounds, although meaning the likes of Ronaldo and Xavi will end up elsewhere.

Genuinely can't wait to see how it turns out.

Munster Magic

carlcon wrote: »

There's probbaly 2 ways most people will go:

1. Gamble big money on a few big players. Invest everything in 5 or 6 players from Germany, Spain, Holland, etc, then throw 0.5 at some average players nobody else is likely to have.
   
2. Spread your money across the board on "2nd tier" players. Kuyt instead of Sneijder. Albiol instead of Pique. Etc. That way you'll have a much better chance of getting your first choice at a decent price, instead of having your choices outbid by someone throwing stupid money at them (nobody is going to drop 12m on Kuyt), which should ultimately leave you in a better position for later bidding rounds, although meaning the likes of Ronaldo and Xavi will end up elsewhere.

Genuinely can't wait to see how it turns out.

Which did you do???;)

carlcon

Munster Magic wrote: »

Which did you do???;)

Yes.