Every day from August 7 to September 7, one team will be posted for bidding per day.
All non-welcher/blacklisted users can participate as long as they follow the rules below.
DurationAll auctions will end at 9pm EST on the day listed above. Auction threads will be posted roughly 24 hours in advance of their end time. If a post is time-stamped at/after 9:01pm EST, then it is too late.
In addition, if a bid is placed in the final 30 minutes of the auction, the auction will be extended 30 minutes until there is no bid for a solid 30 minutes. This helps prevent auction sniping.
BiddingAll bids must be a minimum of 100 fg more than the previous bid.
All bids must be posted in-thread.
You cannot retract a bid.
You cannot bid an amount of fg greater than the amount you currently possess, nor can you place bets elsewhere with fg you are bidding. This is overbidding. All overbids will be ignored, and you will be banned from participating in all future auctions.
Edited posts/bids will be ignored except for the following: if you make a false bid in the 30 minutes before an auction ends and then edit it after 9pm EST, you will be banned. I don't care what your post said.
WinningWhoever has the highest bid at the end of the auction wins the team.
Once you win an auction, you have 24 hours to send your fg to
Mangina. Otherwise, the team will be sold to the next-highest bid (if they still want it—no obligation here) or re-auctioned if necessary. If you do not pay for a team that you win, then you will be banned from participating in all future auctions.
You may bid on and win as many teams as you like, but you cannot own more than 3 teams. (you can donate teams to other people at any time, such as if you win a 4th team)
If you give/sell a team to someone else, please confirm the transaction in this thread or in the team's auction thread.
Welcher/Blacklisted users cannot win or own teams, and their bids will be ignored. Welchers are probably listed somewhere in
this thread.
If the owner of a team is or becomes welcher-tagged or if they break the thread rules before pay-outs occur, then that person will be stripped of their rights to own their team(s). The fg that was paid for their team(s) will be considered a donation to the pot, and their team(s) will be re-auctioned.
If you have any questions about anything, please ask.
PayoutsPayouts are as follows:
• SB Winner: 70% of pot
• SB Loser: 20% of pot
• WC Berth Winners: 1% of pot for each of the four teams
• WC Berth Winners: 1,000 fg (donation from me)
• #1 Overall Pick: 6% of pot (if it's a traded pick, it goes to the team who originally owned the pick)
Auction History2018 Auction ThreadTotal Pot: 89,000
SB Winner: Patriots sold for 15,000; won 62,300 (1:4.15 odds)
SB Loser: Rams sold for 11,000; won 17,800 (1:1.61 odds)
#1 Pick: Cardinals sold for 400; won 5,340 (1:13.35 odds)
2017 Auction ThreadTotal Pot: 77,125
SB Winner: Eagles sold for 1,500; won 50,131.25 (1:33.42 odds)
SB Loser: Patriots sold for 14,100; won 19,281.25 (1:1.37 odds)
#1 Pick: Browns sold for 2,100; won 4,627.5 (1:2.2 odds)
2016 Auction ThreadTotal Pot: 52,566
SB Winner: Patriots sold for 6,600; won 34,167 (1:5.17 odds)
SB Loser: Falcons sold for 5,000; won 13,141 (1:2.62 odds)
#1 Pick: Browns sold for 1,200; won 5,256 (1:4.38 odds)
2015 Auction ThreadTotal Pot: 27,318
SB Winner: Broncos sold for 3,500; won 17,912.45 (1:5 odds)
SB Loser: Panthers sold for 200; won 6,868.25 (1:34 odds)
#1 Pick: Titans sold for 405; won 2,747.30 (1:6.78 odds)
2014 Auction ThreadTotal Pot: 46,540
SB Winner: Patriots sold for 4,000; won 30,576 (1:7.65 odds)
SB Loser: Seahawks sold for 7,480; won 11,760 fg (1:1.57 odds)
#1 Pick: Buccaneers sold for 550; won 4,704 (1:8.5 odds)
2013 Auction ThreadTotal Pot: 70,250
SB Winner: Seahawks sold for 4,100; won 49,175 (1:12 odds)
SB Loser: Broncos sold for 10,025; won 21,075 (1:2.1 odds)