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and i think that player now counts as a "new" player for the team so you can lose merchandising too

but i think it is fine to bid on your player if you listed him for the wrong starting price

doing the bidding in the last few minutes is a bit unethical and my response would be to stop bidding unless i REALLY needed the player and he was still at a good price

Its not. You will pay taxes if you buy him back and your fans will act like he is new player. So on the best case scenario you will lose 3% (if you buy him) of your money plus the fans affect.

I don't think it is unethical. I put my draftee up for sale the other day, he had superstar potential and 4k+ salary and was 18 years old with a good height. I listed him at 1k starting price, and 2 minutes before the transfer deadline he was only on 20k. In my opinion that was way too little for him, and so I outbid the guy to make sure I kept him, he is worth a lot more to me on my team than getting 20k, and considering I get 97% of what I bid back it barely cost me anything to keep him.

Might work for you but right now if you want to list him again you only get 80% of the proceeds.

Though from what you are describing you will still make a nice profit even at 80%

I agree it isn't something to do often. And yeah he went down to 80% but I ended up selling him for 200k so it was a lot more profit than what I would have got. All I was trying to say is that I think there are times when a player should bid on his own player, and that it isn't unethical.

I didn't say it was ethical :P I just said it wasn't unethical :P It is very hard to judge the price of some players (the price they could sell for). So in my example, with the 18yo 4k salary Superstar, some times it could go up for sale for over 500k, so rather than do that, I thought I would put him up for 1k and let people bid on him. It was only on 20k near the end of the auction time, and any manager would be mad to let such a good player go from their team for such little value.

Are you honestly telling me that you wouldn't have bid the player up 1k to ensure you keep him? You aren't harming anyone else by doing it, if you bid up your own price, and the price is still reasonable then others should still feel free to bid on it. If you bid it up too high and other players don't want it anymore then I still don't see how it is unethical as the end result is that you get the player back, and there is a fee and other side effects.

I think it is a valid strategy in dire circumstances.

i wouldnt let him go at that price and the way i would ensure that is by setting a starting price i can live with i just wouldnt list a guy i want 500k for for 1k

i admit i dont always live by this but a good rule of thumb is if a guy has a range of say 80-500k list him at 60 or 70 then people are likely to start bidding because he is seen as good value and even if you only get one bid you got something reasonable

i do list people at 1k sometimes if i really really want then to go but dont want to sack them for example my bad draft picks or players who have played for my team for a while but arent worth anything but who i dont want to force into retirement

yeah too sentimental i guess

the exception is when the guys desctiption says something like 108 similar players have been sold recently and he is probably better than all of those then i would list at the upper end

seems fair to me

the other bad thing about doing this with Simon Schultz (13434612) would be that your fans no longer see him as your draft pick but seeing as you resold him just days later it is no problem just good business but ill bet your % was down from 96% to like 75%


Last edited by abigfishy at 4/8/2010 6:09:03 PM

yer im with swift cheese on this one, if theres a limit to what you will except , start the bidding at that limit.