Can I get a general explanation of an Auction formatted league?

There was a thread last night about free agency, look at that.

We don't do anything to determine nomination order it is randomly selected. In all reality it doesn't really matter where you are in line to nominate, but there's certainly no rule against doing something to determine nomination order.

Nomination strategy is fairly simple, throw out guys early on that you don't want so others will lose money getting them, and whenever you see that players are going for less than their average, which will happen at some point, try and throw out someone you want to get cheaper.

You don't even have to do nominations. You could just go down the list of the top 300 or whatever players and do it that way instead of each person picking a player. There's a little bit more of a strategy to nominating players because you could nominate players that you don't want early on, and watch other teams bid away for them.

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We use a blind bid format for the free agents.

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I like this idea for the actual draft....I think that would be interesting. I don't think I ever want to go back to the traditional waiver wire/free agent pick ups after doing the bids. The blind bid makes it more fair for every team as oppose to just having the bottom feeders of the league getting every decent free agent