Looking for Old School Roto Junkies for a free, fun auction redraft on ESPN

[chancellor]

When are we making a call and locking in? I don't know if everyone's planning to just wing it on Wednesday night based on your encyclopedic knowledge base, but I at least want to have a few days knowing the player pool we'll be bidding on.

Says the man who will likely bestride us like a colossus.

[cavebird]

All set now, e-mail to league sent.

[chancellor]

Since I haven't done an ESPN auction, do our five reserves get bid on?

[cavebird]

My recollection is yes. If there is something I can do to change that, I will, but I have never commished an auction on ESPN, so I do not know.

[cavebird]

Alas, nothing I can do to change the ESPN settings for that.

[Ryno84MVP]

We could simply NOT draft reserves using the ESPN site (or maybe just add $5 for five reserve spots)

[chancellor]

Alas, nothing I can do to change the ESPN settings for that.

Thanks for checking!

[cavebird]

We could simply NOT draft reserves using the ESPN site (or maybe just add $5 for five reserve spots)

That might work. Anyone else have thoughts on this idea?

[cavebird]

I mean the second idea---however, we would have to police people to stop them from drafting too many from a position in the auction because that would put them in reserves.

[Controller Jacobs]

I personally prefer to play as-is. I expect by the end of a full auction I'll be too worn down to police anything.

Side question - I see this setting is set to "Yes": Allow out of Universe Stats and Trades
Does that mean NL player stats would count?

[cavebird]

I personally prefer to play as-is. I expect by the end of a full auction I'll be too worn down to police anything.

Side question - I see this setting is set to "Yes": Allow out of Universe Stats and Trades
Does that mean NL player stats would count?

Yes, I set it so that people do not get screwed on trades out of the league. I thought I mentioned that in a message to the league.

[B-Fly]

Yes, add five dollars for the reserves, with the expectation that we'll be down to $1 maximum bid by the time we've drafted our starters and it will therefore operate like a draft.

[chancellor]

Yes, add five dollars for the reserves, with the expectation that we'll be down to $1 maximum bid by the time we've drafted our starters and it will therefore operate like a draft.

Works for me if cavebird is able to do that.

[Ryno84MVP]

Yes, add five dollars for the reserves, with the expectation that we'll be down to $1 maximum bid by the time we've drafted our starters and it will therefore operate like a draft.

Right now, it looks like the ESPN site is set for 10 reserves, so we may want to make that five (plus the DL slots).

[cavebird]

I set it for 10 reserves, but if people want only five that's fine with me. I just set 10 because that is what I am used to. As for adding the extra money for reserves and not auctioning them, there may be a fly in the ointment. One or more players may be auto-auctioning (likely amcg due to the time difference), and I don't think we'll be able to stop someone auto-auctioning from bidding on reserves. I might just add the $5 for the reserve picks to keep the auction values right, and then allow people to bid on reserves if they want to do so--not that this will likely matter, in an 11-team only league, there won't be anyone worth bidding on for reserves.