Thanks firesalt for your interest and questions.
There is no limit to the number of players you can win in a round... you just can't Bid on more players than you need to fill your roster, which is understandable.
I'm not sure being able to Bid on 5 players, or more than 5 players will be a huge deal. To start, I'm sure that with 12 owners each submitting 5 players that there are going to be quite a few duplicates, especially at the beginning since eveyone is going to want the better players. We may only have 20-30 players in each of the first few rounds. With 12 owners bidding on 5 players that means multiple Bids on every player anyway, so if you could Bid on 10 players or even more to raise Bids then there will also be multiple Bids on every player. Same difference. In the end, there is only ONE Bid that will count no matter how many Bids a player gets.... the highest Bid. The fact that a Bid can be raised again the next day does 2 things, 1) it gives everyone a CHANCE at every player unlike a usual draft and 2) it brings out the true value of that player because of the competition of Bidding. The last thing I want is a player like a Mays going to someone cheap because owners didn't have enough Bids available to raise them to where they could or should be.
I'll ask you a question, if you can only Bid on 5 players and choose to raise the Bids on Mays, Rose, Koufax, Gibson, and Seaver and then Aaron, Clemente, Stargell, Simmons and Palmer all get taken in a round because no one else Bid on them would you be okay with that? Knowing if you had more than 5 Bids you could have forced them into a higher Bid? I'm just saying.... it works both ways. How will you feel if you don't end up with any of the 5 you Bid on and then the next 5 on your list are already gone because you were limited in your Bids? Personally I would feel better being able to Bid on as many players as I want at anytime as often as I want, knowing that will get all of the players to their highest Bid.
As to the 150 points that can be used, yes it was arrived at to accomodate future seasons. After season 1 you will get back 25 "Years" since each player used one year. (25x1=25) But you will only get back the same number of points of your expiring contracts. So if you Bid 1 year/1 point you'll get back 1 point. Any player with more than 1 year still needs all of his points to cover his contract for the next year. Example: 2years/5points. You still have to pay those 5 points again in year 2.
3/9/2024 4:58 PM (edited)