I just wanted to highlight and explain some changes I made the bidding process.

Quick Bid: This was inspired by Perry's typo last week. Basically, it's a simple button that will raise the existing bid by whatever the league min raise is. (It's 10% for all of our leagues now, but this is configurable). Note that the bid will be placed immediately when you click that button.

AutoBid: This is a feature I'm pretty excited about, although it might ruin some of the fun you guys seem to have with sniping... Basically, this lets you specify a Max Bid and automatically raises other bids until you hit this limit. By default, it's just a new Quick Bid - i.e., the same years as the previous bid and a 10% increase on the salary. So, first, it's a convenience thing so you don't have to worry about coming back to re-bid all the time; but more importantly AutoBids are put in *immediately* after a Manual or Quick Bid.

However, you can control the bidding a little by specifying two other parameters.

Max Years: This would be used in the case where you don't care as much about annual salary but want to limit the number of years you commit. E.g., let's say the new bid is $500k / 3 yrs, but you set Max Years to 2. As long as your Max Total Bid is above $1.65, you'll place a new bid - but instead of being %550k/3yrs, it will be $825k/2yrs.

Max Annual Salary lets you do the same thing in the other direction. E.g., let's say on the last one, you set Max Annual Salary to $500k, but didn't specify Max Years. Since $550k/3yrs would exceed this limit, your next bid will jump to 4 yrs - $412,500/4yrs.

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I've done a lot to test this in my TEST league, but I'm sure there are going to be some kinks so please bear with me. Also, if you find anything particularly confusing here, let me know. I hope it's clear, but as always I'll tweak things based on feedback and testing.

Oh, one other point on this - if multiple people put in AutoBids, they will be taken in the order they were originally placed.

So, e.g., if two owners both put in a AutoBid with the same max bid, the one who put it in first will "win". Assuming it's not at the last min, the other owner will still be able to raise, of course, but the AutoBid won't kick in.

I've also implemented the weekly forced close. I need to make this a little smarter (read: configurable), but for now it basically says any auction opened on Friday or earlier (i.e., Friday up to midnight) closes on Sun midnight or the original close (whichever is sooner).

Incredible stuff Tim. I know I have said this, but you are the man.

Wrap around from Eugene for this one.

Glad you like it. Drop queue coming tonight or tomorrow. Player rankings next week. All would have been sooner if I didn't waste my time on that shit MFL said I could do with their API, but of course as I suspected I couldn't.

Quick Bid = Epic

I was reading those shits that girls should wear the other night. I agree wit that, they shouldn't wear then. Funny, but not on my 13 year old daughter.

I'm sure you've seen this already, but it appears the quick bid has placed an illegal bid on Greg Hardy.

Yeah, same thing in NFFL. In both cases, it was because the league's min bid setting wasn't provided... and the max annual salary for each AutoBid triggered an increase in years.

I've updated both settings, so it won't happen again, and i'm going to put in some logic to bump up the existing bids tot hat min.

Looks like the timing may be off with the auctions, as I see some in both leagues with a stale time over 24 hours.