* Honestly some simple mistakes can be made... I've almost double bid myself... maybe a $5 million fine is enough of a hit without crippling a team's buying ability.  $10 mil total at the most or else I think a team will have a hard time keeping up... just my 2 cents...

I'd say let's try and reset the bids & clock where they were at before any invalid bids like you were suggesting.
The maybe extend each bid 24 hours to adjust for the confusion/give guys a chance to see where things stand....

As far as deleting bids... unless we have a voucher... just let it ride... fine is gonna be steep enough...
We're almost through- let's jsut all be careful the rest of the way...

 

Posted by brianjw on 11/4/2010 11:02:00 AM (view original):
I have a quick rules question.

Say a player has spent 88 million on four units. They then spend their last 12 million on their last unit, completing their team for exactly 100 million. Do they become officially bankrupt at this point?

I think this matters for the 2 player draft that happens after the supplementary draft. If I've understood the rules right, first we'll have a draft of undrafted units for players who ran out of money before they purchased five units. (At least one player will be in that position.) Then we'll have a draft of undrafted players, with the order being most remaining money to least, then the bankrupt players in order they went bankrupt. I was wondering whether the player I described in the previous paragraph would get the last pick (assuming they went bankrupt right now, and so were the first to bankrupt), or a middle-ish pick, because they would pick ahead of all the players who didn't buy five units in the auction?

brian, in regards to the two questions you've put forth:

1.  No.  I will differentiate between teams that have spent their 100M to get all 5 units and those who came up short. 
2.  If there is a transaction that involves money, it will affect your draft position. 

Posted by gumbercules on 11/10/2010 1:27:00 AM (view original):
I am giving both toddleduc and tarheel1991 the option of restating their bids on SF from earlier today.  If they both do, the highest bid would be tarheel1991 at 10M as of 6:44 today.  Neither person is required to do so. 

That's it for me tonight.  Anything else can wait until tomorrow morning.

* I'm fine with my bid staying on San Diego IF per your earlier post yesterday:

Posted by coldfeet on 11/10/2010 10:37:00 AM (view original):
did umpterp know the staus of SD and SF were in hiatus when he bid. this is why i think notice of errors/problems should be placed in the actual bid forums where they are more apt to be seen.

did umpterp know he was high bidder on yanks inf when another owner was incorrectly listed as leading that auction?

To try and clear the confusion:

1.  As for the posting of announcements here, it's a lot easier to keep track of the bids for me if that's all that I'm looking at in a specific thread.  It's complicated enough keeping track of everything as is.  It's just easier for me if all the bids are in one place.  I'm not sure how having to comb through bids and announcements would be any easier, except that you have to open a third thread instead of just the two.   If it happens again and there's a slew of invalid bids/confusion on one or two particular units, I would be willing to make an exception and post something about it there as well as here.

2.  No auction was in hiatus.  The 24 hour clock never stopped on any auction.

3.  Umdterp397 never told me he bid because someone else was listed as the leader instead of him.  He said a bid was entered and deleted.  Unfortunately, I did have the wrong bidder listed, but the date, time, and amount of the bid was identical to his last bid.  I also stated (just for cases like this) that the board is unofficial and to contact me if there are any issues with the board.