Yes. Everyone starts with £30m. Sorry poor phrasing.

Well people can put bids in whenever they want, but considering you can't see other people's offers there isn't much of an advantage in doing so as before. It'd be easy to miss out on a player.

Plus people can't see if you have bidded on Friday, so it doesn't matter what time you bid on Friday it'll have the same effect.

Thanks That is why I could not find you, been searching footie threads.

If I bid for RVP on mon 7.00 am would that player be mine if nobody outbids me by wed 7am.

That's good, bidding for players on here on a Friday night would play havoc with my social life!

(such as it is )

Yes. You can always check the deadline by visiting the player's page.

Yeah that is why originally I had it as Thursday, but thought it didn't matter so much this year

Is it £30m player budget as well as £200k wages + whatever wage budget you have left over from the lottery or is that wiped out too?

Sort of. Some people will go over the their wage budget in the lottery some slightly under. That's just how it works. Can't be exact. If anything is left over it will be added to the 200k, anything they go over by will be deducted to a minimum of zero.

I've have cleared the bids of the mock auction. All bids made now count to the actual auction.

We are in Pre-Auction mode till 8pm tonight, so you can make your bids without anyone knowing till then. You will only be told your bids are pending. You will not find out till this evening whether you have the leading offer or if your bid has been rejected. At 8pm the Auction will start and you will be told each time you make a bid if it has been successful.

I cannot look at bids now till after the auction to avoid any advantage. So if you think something looks wrong, do not tell me the exact bid details; just tell me what you think the problem is and I will look into it the best I can.

If I made a bid now will the deadline be Tuesday at 1pm or 8pm?

Tuesday 8pm. The timing on all bids made in the pre-auction will be set to when the auction starts.

Is anyone else having these issues............................


1 When trying to bid I can input transfer amount but the 'wages' part not working.


2/ I have to keep logging in every time I click on a different player.

I'll post this again here so everyone can see it. People are best posting questions like this in the forum so everyone can read it. It is only the really technical questions that Fab tends to ask which I'd avoid clogging the thread with and confusing things.

I'm aware of the problem of #2. I will fix it when I get a chance.

With #1, have you read what it says above the wages section

"Please select the length of the contract you wish to offer. The wages demands will fluctate depending on the length of the contract."

So if you choose a different contract length, the wage demands will change. Is this working?

I haven't had either of these issues.

Right, done and dusted

Just have to wait 'til 8pm now to see exactly how badly that worked out

Just a quick question Season:

Last year if you bought more/cheaper players in the auction, then you tended to get the "better" players in the lottery. Is the same likely to happen this year?

I think problem #2 is happening to a lot of people (including me). Glad it isn't affecting everyone though.

If you buy players with low wages in the auction, you will get players with higher wages in the lottery.

It isn't possible to actually sign or lose out on any players tonight is it? If I don't make any bids tonight will that be a disadvantage?

didn't affect me either

just to be clear, are you talking about your total wage budget spent, or the highest wage you are offering.

No. You won't miss out on any players tonight. No players will be signed until Tuesday 8pm at the earliest. In fact, someone people make choose not to make any bids yet for tactical reasons. Who knows.

I don't understand the question. Your squad will be worth roughly £1.5m in wages after the lottery, so anything you spend in the auction on wages will be deducted from that total. So if you spend £600k on 4 players in the auction, you will have 900k for the other 18 players.

This is a rough example.

Cool, I haven't had much of a chance to look through the player list yet so my imminent RVP bid will have to wait till tomorrow

ok just wondering if you brought 8 or 9 players in the cheapest wage possible and maxing the limit and with the transfer budget on Zero.
I am guessing this example won't get players with higher wages in the lottery.

If you choose to buy 8 or 9 cheap players - for an example we'll say they all have £20,000 wages - then you would expect to get the better players in the lottery. What you have to remember though is a lot of the top players will already have gone in the auction.