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Im just trying to run this through my head. Im not sure if i understand it properly.

Its half time. Im watching the game live. A player comes up for auction, and only myself and the manager of the opposition team are able to bid on him and we have 15 minutes. Highest bid wins. Is this correct?

Chances are, is that im so not going to be interested in this player, so I won't ever bid. When im looking at buying a new player, i have very specific needs. Very few teams go around buying random players. There is usually a specific need and requirement.
If there are 10,000 players for sale at that point in time, and a random player comes up for auction, the odd's of me wanting him are going to be so small.
Me actually buying a player under those circumstances require's the following:

a) Me being online to watch the game
b) Actually having cash to buy the player
c) Actually needing to buy the player
d) the player actually being remotely close to what I require
e) The player being good value

The chances of this happening randomly are so small, that its just ridiculous. Id much rather the current transfer search system any day of the week.

Forcing people to come online during games, to buy players, isnt a good idea. If I see a player who's sale is going to expire at 3am, i just ignore him. But I can't magically change the time's that i work, such that im not travelling during the half time of a game, just so i can bid a player that i might be interested in.

So i say remove the auction idea. Keep it simple and just have player transfer advertisments. Currently transfer listed players will be advertised druing half-time. Just like the current advertisment system, but during half time.

I'll start from the end of your response;
A better auction-system (which I've already suggested) is to allow setting min-price, max-price (and maybe also the difference from current bid), and allow it to be automatically for those who can't attend the bidding.
This is what needs to be done, as there is no reason to give this unfair advantage to users who just have more flexible time.
This game is not about "how your time is flexible".
Summarizing - the auction-system issue needs a "root-solution and improvement".

Regarding the suggestion brought about the half-time auction;
I didn't fully defined it, and maybe something else should happen at this time, but what I'm mainly suggesting is to have something that will bring some small benefit to those who watch a game. Otherwise, as I wrote, there is no reason for this long period of 15 minutes of nothing.

The suggestion:
A player will be randomly peeked from the TL (at setting an auction for that player), and preferably a player of a retired player.
This player will be brought to auction at a game.
As most of the time, the auctioned player will not be one that the users, that are part of the game, will bid and want, that player will return to the TL or even will go to another game as an "half-time auction".
It will give small advantage that users will want to take, as this player will not be open for bidding to all, but just to those two users. This advantage will make users watch the game, or at least the half-time.
In case that player will not be bidded at the first 5 minutes, a new player could be brought to this game.
It is fair for all, as all users will have their own half-time's auction, and what is surely true is that it is more fair than current auction-system (as explained above).
Again, this auctions will not come in replace of the regular TL, but in addition.

This game is not about "how your time is flexible".

How many times are you bringing this issue up? Last time I already explained to you how you can bid for a player the max amount you are willing to pay. I also said to you, that an average team, buys a player once a month (the number suggested even less, but we rounded it up for you). Are you saying you can not be online once a month on a specific time? It's not like you have to be able to be online 24/7 to be successful in BB.
Your half time random auction is just iceing on the cake:D Can your suggestions get any worse. First claiming that noone should be able to get "the extreme unfair advantage, that ruins this game and kittens die every time someone buys a player when they should be sleeping" and then suggest something absolutely opposite, where people should get the advantage (if they watch their games live) of bidding on some random 18 year old, bot drafted MVP with great skills that was retired while a human manager took over. Man, you are great!

I need again to clear a common wrong saying here (mistakenly? I'm not sure);

Bidding the MAX price (you agree to pay for that player) means that you pay... the MAX price.
It is not the case for the one who is bidding live.
If it was such a not importrant issue, then live auctions should have been eliminated.
Those who are hiding it, hiding the fact that by that those who has more flexible time pay less than "MAX price", and by that has great advantage at this game.

But that's absolutely not the point of the suggestion, so please everyone, can we stay on topic ? Half time activity.

Well, I actually think it is nice when the 15min pause comes, so there is actually time to do something IRL, maybe grab a sandwich or something, and then come back for the 3rd and 4th quarters.