Sorry. I'm working on building the draft threads now. I've been swamped at school and work and dealing with a sinus infection. It's been a miserable week. 

There are 26 categories (including ballpark).  There also happens to be 26 letters in the alphabet., so I have created a template, which maps each letter to a category.  When you send me your bid amounts, simply include the letter and the bid amount.  Here is the letter-to-category mapping template... 

Category	Description
A	50 Years of 360+ Hitters
B	1B with 19+ Triples
C	2000 Starting SS
D	50 Years of All-Star Willies
E	In or Out with a Bang
F	Justified Gold Glove MIFs
G	.400 Hitting Ofs
H	WW II Three-Bagger
I	Power Hitting Catchers
J	Hot Potato Corner
K	HOF Second Basemen
L	Walk and Run
M	1887-88 Browns
N	2000 Red Sox
O	300-400 IP pitchers
P	1986 AL East RPs
Q	198-199 K Club
R	Smokin Southpaws
S	Soft-Tossing Closers
T	High Win% SPs
U	1930-59 Good Pitchers
V	Obscenely Low ERAs
W	Hitting Pitchers
X	Beanball RPs
Y	Wild Thang
Z	Ballparks

 

I may have missed it, but how will tie bids be handled?

Posted by dhomard on 2/12/2013 9:57:00 AM (view original):
I may have missed it, but how will tie bids be handled?

I used a random sequence generator in season 1. I assume schwarze would do the same.

Correct, it will be random.

Not bad... just 24 hours after I started accepting bids, we're already over half way there.  Keep 'em coming...

mine are in... and I am far from satisfied... I made so many adjustments over the last two days... Let's hope I didn't adjust myself out of a coherent strategy.

i feel less than satisfied, too.  With 24 teams, I think it is going to be a little trickier than with 16.  Not feeling so good about this time around. 

I have a coherent strategy...I'm just hoping it works.

DCSquires says he'll get his bids in late Friday.  I am a bit worried about tdoak and dweezil.  They have not opened up any of my site-mails all week.

I don't feel good at all about my picks. I made the bids I wanted for each category and realized I had 80 credits leftover. So I have no idea what to expect.

I feel worse.  I made the bids I wanted for each category and had 400+ CREDITS LEFT OVER!!!   Seriously!!!

Here is what I am going to do for tie-breakers. 

I have created the following random number grid.  Each column contains the numbers 1 thru 24.  There are 26 columns, but the columns are not marked yet.  I am going to re-order the columns in the grid.  I will then ask one person to site-mail me a list of the letters A thru Z, mixed up in random order. I will not open the site-mail... Once I see that site-mail in my in-box, I will then site-mail that person the revised grid - so it's on the record.  Once he receives that grid, he can check to confirm that I have not yet opened the site-mail he sent me.  Once he confirms that, then I will open it up and assign his letters to my grid, which then then be used to break ties.

There are a few high-bid-amount ties that I don't want the respoinsibility of breaking without some kind of audit control.

This is that grid that I will be mixing up...

schwarze	15	5	18	24	12	14	19	24	23	6	3	20	2	5	8	17	22	1	8	17	15	2	18	16	10	1
dhomard	10	7	21	20	18	18	3	23	20	2	10	18	7	3	20	7	16	8	2	16	18	9	9	6	24	10
firesalt	18	12	10	2	13	20	14	9	24	1	1	10	24	13	5	10	23	24	7	9	21	19	12	7	13	4
scthallfan	24	9	15	10	10	11	7	5	21	14	19	9	10	19	23	18	14	10	16	5	8	1	13	5	12	17
fooolishfool	13	19	24	18	14	22	8	1	10	15	21	4	9	21	16	11	5	17	18	15	5	6	5	12	9	7
nocomm999	12	17	5	9	23	13	6	7	19	9	13	23	14	20	15	4	4	23	17	10	3	23	1	19	8	8
mllama54	1	6	23	17	3	12	20	19	2	21	20	24	3	16	9	2	15	19	12	21	6	8	2	14	11	19
sgsmith	23	18	3	21	16	15	11	17	18	11	24	5	5	10	11	20	21	7	1	8	1	4	6	10	15	24
kyleb63	3	1	4	6	9	10	12	21	16	20	11	11	16	9	10	15	12	21	3	19	12	20	10	15	21	18
shysters3	22	13	6	8	1	5	5	8	7	13	12	16	22	17	14	19	17	3	4	20	22	10	22	3	14	22
5pointtoss	6	14	17	3	8	23	21	4	8	3	7	22	21	6	2	22	13	11	20	1	17	24	14	4	22	12
lampdogg	21	16	9	13	11	1	10	3	3	24	23	15	20	8	1	12	8	9	19	12	24	7	20	18	7	11
calhoop	4	2	16	22	6	6	18	10	1	4	14	1	19	14	13	14	19	18	6	24	13	22	17	9	18	15
reddtrain	17	20	2	23	22	4	9	20	14	23	9	19	12	7	21	9	20	15	5	4	7	18	3	1	1	20
bargearse	20	24	22	19	24	7	17	12	6	10	18	3	8	23	7	6	7	2	10	14	10	3	23	24	4	2
BastanRedsox	7	3	8	11	5	8	2	18	4	17	15	17	17	24	6	1	6	22	23	18	4	11	16	21	20	21
just4me	14	22	7	5	7	19	1	14	9	12	8	7	18	12	12	8	1	20	11	23	14	12	21	20	23	5
marlowe	19	21	14	7	20	2	22	16	15	18	17	12	4	11	4	24	24	4	15	6	11	21	4	2	3	9
flyingman	8	10	19	1	19	9	24	13	13	5	6	8	15	22	18	16	2	16	9	2	16	14	8	13	16	23
tdoak	9	11	11	16	17	21	4	11	11	8	2	13	6	15	17	3	10	5	24	3	23	17	24	23	5	16
DCSquires	11	8	1	15	21	17	13	6	12	16	5	21	13	2	24	21	3	12	14	13	20	16	7	11	17	6
akira_hokuto	16	4	12	14	2	16	16	2	22	19	4	6	11	4	22	13	18	13	21	22	9	13	19	8	6	13
dweezil	5	15	13	12	15	24	23	15	5	7	22	14	1	1	19	5	11	6	22	7	19	15	11	22	2	14
pinotfan	2	23	20	4	4	3	15	22	17	22	16	2	23	18	3	23	9	14	13	11	2	5	15	17	19	3

How to read the grid:

If column 1 happened to correspond with Category A, and schwarze and dhomard had the same bid amount for category A, then dhomard wins the tie-breaker since 10 is lower than 15.