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Originally Posted by Hanna Sniper
If every team has chance to bid on a player and all choose not too.... except one GM. I really think putting a 2.5M pricetag on him is pointless if every GM had the chance to offer 750K and didn't think he was worth it.
The reason why steals happen are because GM's are greedy and they what all the top players. Maybe those that are upset about the steals should scale back on the star struck ways and target the other players.
One of the easiest ways to prevent a player going at a steal is to offer him more
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I dont beleive that is true. First off, "offering more" implies you know the bid you need to beat, which doesn't happen now. Steals happen because there is no ability to see who is getting bid action and who isnt. Some GMs, that dont have the cap for large offers just toss out a 0.5M deal (or similar) to every player just in case someone gets passed over by the league. That is not to say the entire league didn't want that player, but rather to say, they wanted others in the group more. To that end, the grouping and prioritization of players plays a big part.
I don't think the solution for "preventing steals" is to stop bidding on high-end guys. To run a blind bid process with no (meaningful) minimum bid is the problem (if you believe "steals" are a problem of course).
This ties in nicely to the conversation David and I had the other day about changing the UFA process from a blind process, to a transparent, multi-bid process (live auction if you will). That discussion is for another thread though...