Auction ends 14:11:xx
14:05 - I place my initial bid
14:11 - I am the winning bidder
14:11:xx - owner overbids for minimums
14:12 - I am the winning bidder again
14:14 - owner overbids for minimum again - new auction end 14:18:xx
14:15 third team jumps in, min-overbids and gets the player at 14:18:xx
I have been the third team many times. Even if a team enters the bidding at a late stage does not mean that they suddenly discovered the player. I often (constantly) scan the Player Market, always having bookmarks on players that are a good fit for my team, and checks if they end up in a price range that I am willing to play or can afford. Many times several suitable players are sold in about the same time, and since I don't want to bind up my funds, I choose to spend time being online at the time of the sale, bidding when I think I can get the player. I "lose" players all the time, but once in a while it pays of. It is timeconsuming to get good deals, but when the market are inflated, that is what it takes. Another thing you could try to focus on are training your own players. This makes a team less vulnerable for market fluctuations.
Well maybe all you Scrooge McDucks out there dont have to think about how much to spend for a player, but I dont think players are worth to be chased and overpaid - auction prices went insane in the last two months and I dont want to bid on players who are being traded over their "true" value. That gets us to the point where you get fined for buying a player OVER his value and I think bidding around 4 millions for a 25k player is someway at the top of the range of what those players are worth.
I dont like the way suggestions are treated in this community, as soon as you post sthg. some know-it-all will tell you how unsophisticated your opinion is and everything is your own fault.
I also try to be very careful not to pay more than a player is worth, but the market controls the worth, not opposite. But I agree it gets frustrating from time to time.
...Is it not managers like me and you that are Scrooge McDucks? He is the one that won't pay more than something is worth... most of the time not even that ;)
Last edited by Svett Sleik (U21-Scout Norge) at 3/7/2010 3:36:14 PM