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by optimal i mean the outcome (who ends up with player and price) is optimal and everyone as a result is as well off as they could be (seller gets best price and player goes to the manager who values him most and at the going rate).

And I don't think this is really the target of the transfer system in this game. If it were, an auto-bid system would probably have been in place from day one. Or taking it a step further, the prices of the players might even be predetermined to a degree based on various statistics that the BB's are able to gather from the game. The target is rather to provide an additional means to improve your team and outperform your rivals. It seems clear you are allowed and even expected to make mistakes (as long as that does not significantly affect the fairness and the balance of the game) in this part of the game while learning the ropes.

also if a bid war ensues and two managers get overly emotional and outbid more than they wanted to pay then this is not optimal either.

Except for the seller who now gets the truly best price, anomaly or not.

Obviously any change has winners and losers, and the vocal people here on the forum are weighted on the losers side - it is only natural. But i would argue there would be many more winners who are not voicing their opinions here.

It is usually a good idea to assume positive intent, and from what I have seen over the years here the great majority of those taking part in the Suggestion forum discussions do so to benefit the game or otherwise out of their interest in the game, not to protect any perceived advantages. When a suggestion is not an obvious improvement from all points of view, those who oppose it may naturally be more vocal. That is however a different issue.

It is not optimal to have managers sitting there waiting and bidding every 3 minutes against another manager(s) every three minutes.

Why not? It's part of the game, and of the fun.

if the outcome is such that a manager who should have won "trips" up and the player goes to another manager then this is not an optimal outcome (although i understand the winning manager will always feel they have a great deal when this happens)

There is no "manager who should have won", sorry.
If he had a max price he can offer it before leaving his computer. And if that price isn't enough to get him the player, then he shouldn't win (and he wouldn't have won even with an auto-bid).

also if a bid war ensues and two managers get overly emotional and outbid more than they wanted to pay then this is not optimal either.
these things can happen under either system because we are not all "rational" in how we behave, but the autobid system i believe would result in more "rational" behaviour and a more optimal and therefore fairer outcome.

It may be not optimal, but it's human. Overpaying happens. Rashard Lewis, ring a bell?
We're humans playing against each other, no? Who plays better, wins.

also all that time spent sat there bidding and counter bidding could be better spent on other bb or non bb pursuits. and these pursuits could be made possible with an autobid system that helps to fund these new things in BB.

And you can also not play BB at all, and use all the time you spend with BB, for better pursuits.

i understand your argument that you get more fun knowing you are competing with a manager for a player at that moment in time (rather than via an autobid) , you might get a "bargain" , or many other emotional reasons , but these things can still happen in an autobid system.

Autobid "replies" at always the same time during the time between your bid and the deadline. There is no suspence in that.

and for every reason you have to the positive, it is more than matched by a negative for someone else in a different position to you, someone who is more time constrained.

The time it takes to set an autobid at a certain price X, is exactly the same it takes to actually make a bid at that same price. Time costraints have no role in this discussion.

Obviously any change has winners and losers, and the vocal people here on the forum are weighted on the losers side - it is only natural. But i would argue there would be many more winners who are not voicing their opinions here.

We will never know. And after all it doesn't matter, BBs decide and the "voices" here might help them getting a better understanding of the arguments, but I don't think they count the votes and then decide.

I am a strong believer in fairness and promoting competition between managers across the globe, all time zones, languages - everything and the autobid system would help this to happen.

No it wouldn't. If I set my autobid at 100, then I can also offer 100 straight away and go.

Thank you for all of your replies and counter arguments they are much appreciated

Contender for most annoying thread of the year? I have asked for it to be closed, and when it was someone opened it again! When I posted this I didn't think that 6 arrogant people that believe they always have to be right would come post 160 posts.

sorry ralph i came in very late to this suggestion, but i felt strongly that there were one or two points i could make to counter some of the arguments put forward. i am disappointed that there arent more managers that try to be more positive or find more positives with suggestions(in general) than just the negatives or what they dont like.
everyone is entitled to their opinion however and im pleased that i have had mine even if it didnt go down well with regular readers!!

I wasn't talking about you, just everybody that have to spam the thread with all the negatives that they can find.