I bid $5 for him (the lowest you can bid and not have him be Option). I knew that wouldn't get him, and I was right. Other bids were $10, $14 and $15 (the winning bid, and the highest you can bid and not have him under a two-year contract).He's writing about Max Scherzer, but I'm more interested in the rule TJ's talking about.
I've talked previously about minimum salaries in leagues where you can bid as little as $1 on FAABed players, but I did not address the concept of forcing teams into issuing a contract past a certain bid.
The idea, obviously, is to provide a disincentive against hoarding your money, waiting for Mark Teixeira to come into the league, and then blowing your budget on him. I think there are a lot of reasons why you shouldn't do this, but I can agree with the idea that the two-year contract would provide a reason not to bid over $15 in TJ's league.
On the other hand, if it looks like you're going to win your league anyway, you might very well spend well into the penalty zone, and simply figure that you'll pay for it out of your winnings. I've always said that the money isn't as important to me as the glory, so I'd probably do that. On the other hand, I'm also not in a full blown $260 league. I also don't know what the penalty is in TJ's league for eating one of these contracts.
Actually, I'm assuming that you can eat a FAAB contract. Maybe you can't, and that forces you to bid accordingly. If Teixeira comes into the league, you'd damn well better bid his keeper price plus inflation, or pretty much resign yourself to not competing next year with a $70 Teixeira on your roster. That would certainly provide incentive not to bid that much.
I actually like the idea of eschewing the cap and forcing teams to make decisions all year long based on their budgets. Sure, you can wait for Teixeira, but then you might miss out on this year's Matt Diaz and Kyle Kendrick.
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One league I used to do in the middle 90s had a rule that if you bought a FAAB player for $25 or more you had to either keep him, or buy him out. The buy out was $50 or twice his salary, whichever was more. The money went into the prize pool.
It allowed teams to bid a lot, knowing it could cost them next year. A $70 Teixeira could help you win a lot of money last year, but he'd cost you an additional $140 this year.
In our low-money league, Teixeira went for $130 last year (we have $175 in FAAB each year). We do allow buyouts; it's only $5, paid to the winner.
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