How do Sportsline FAAB blind bids work?

[stevelabny]

I run a 12 (or more) team roto 5x5 mixed league thats been running for almost 10 years.

We have always had the commissioner do all the work of free agents, waivers, and trades.

I already know that we will have to tweak certain rules if we let Sportsline run the free agent transactions, but I have one important question.

Does Sportsline allow backup choices? Can you choose to go after a 2nd player if you lose your bid (either before or after the bid is lost? )

The one thing I don't want to change in the league is the weekly transactions, so if there isn't some sort of backup procedure, that would majorly suck.

Can anyone walk me through it?

[dmendro]

I've been wondering the same thing. I've been trying to test it pre-season, but the auction doesn't seem to be running yet, so I'm guessing we can't actually use it until the season starts.

[cy33]

It is a little odd. We did it for Football and I assume it wrks the same way.

You can bid $5 on Thome drop sheffield
bid $4 on Johnson drop Shef

If you get the 1st one and shef is no longer on your roster then the next is void.

All in all I would not recommend using it. One week they didn't process any transactions and if hurt our league big time...

[SOUTHSIDE HITMEN]

It is a little odd. We did it for Football and I assume it wrks the same way.

You can bid $5 on Thome drop sheffield
bid $4 on Johnson drop Shef

If you get the 1st one and shef is no longer on your roster then the next is void.

All in all I would not recommend using it. One week they didn't process any transactions and if hurt our league big time...

Yeah for the last 4-5 weeks of our football league with the Thursday games the bids didn't get processed. So for those weeks we had to call everyone to get their bids and put them thru ourselves.

The way you bid on mutlipe people is to bid on different people and keep the same player to drop. Hope that helps.

[CT Smash]

As commissioner, you can select which day you want the site to process the bids (Sat night/Sun night, etc.)

As the others stated, you can have back-up choices by making sure you drop the same player for each back-up choice. A nice feature is that if you change your mind about your order of preference, you can easily move your choice up or down within your queue.

[cy33]

As commissioner, you can select which day you want the site to process the bids (Sat night/Sun night, etc.)

As the others stated, you can have back-up choices by making sure you drop the same player for each back-up choice. A nice feature is that if you change your mind about your order of preference, you can easily move your choice up or down within your queue.

I was the commish and had it for wednesday. One week it just didn't process transactions...

I like the feature, but if the purpose is to reduce the work for the commish, don't bother. It will create more headaches.

[Bloody Sox]

I've been wondering the same thing. I've been trying to test it pre-season, but the auction doesn't seem to be running yet, so I'm guessing we can't actually use it until the season starts.

The front page now has a link telling me I can turn on the FAAB auction system... so you should be able to test it now. I hope it will let us test it out... would be a good way to see if we want to go for it this year.

Another random FAAB note: I wasn't sure what would happen if you won a bid outright... would you automatically go to the bottom of the bid priority tiebreaker list? I got a response from CBS saying no... the only time you fall to the bottom of the priority list is if there is a tiebreaker scenario - this is true even when there are zero dollar bids.