Ronding Auction rules

Basics Welcome to the Ronding Auction. Each round, captains secretly submit the name of a player they want to bid on, and the amount they want to bid (can be zero). The captain who offered the most money, gets the player of his choice, and the money is subtracted from his account. All bids of the other captains are unsuccessful. Player names and amounts of these bids remain secret until after the entire auction completes.

Tie-breaking In case bids are tied, the captain with the smallest team wins the round. If team sizes are equal, the tie is resolved by an automated dice roll.

Karma There is also karma, which balances the distribution of luck over captains in case multiple dice rolls occur during the auction. Losing a dice roll increments your karma. Winning a dice roll subtracts those increments of the other players from your karma. The dice always favours captains with higher karma. Because karma depends on the contents of unsuccessful bids, all karma values are kept secret during the auction. Lucky captains will have negative karma, whereas unlucky captains will have positive karma. The karma value of every captain is revealed once all captains are either out of cash or have only one player left to pick.

Bid constraints If possible, a captain with n vacancies on the team must bid at least the current account balance divided by n . Additionally, you can only place a bid if there is a possibility that you win the round with that bid. You can opt-out of a round if the second constraint raises your minimum bid. All constraints are computed automatically by the system. If your minimum bid exceeds your account balance, the system automatically submits an opt-out for you. The system will also automatically set a maximum bid lower than your account balance if that is sufficient to guarantee you win the round. Karma is only considered in the bid constraints after it has been revealed.

Player value estimates After the auction completes, player value estimates are displayed. Usually, the value of a player is the highest bid placed during the auction (even if that was unsuccessful). However, if a captain who placed a bid on a player later places another bid for a different player that is higher, then the player value is adjusted upward to match the later bid. Player ratings are awarded at the end of the auction.

Player names in bids Strategically, you place a bid only for the right to choose the next player. The only reason captains are asked to select player names before submission and comparison of the bids is because this helps estimating the value of players once the auction is over. To simplify the paperwork, the system automatically remembers the player name of your last bid as long as that player is not purchased by a competitor, so that you can easily bid again on the same player.

Semi-snake draft If you set the initial budgets to zero, the karma system as described above will give you something very similar to a snake draft. In this case, the only difference with a snake draft is that the order is randomised each time every captain has drafted an even number of players.