The START TIME for the C/FA Auction SATURDAY JAN 30 will be 6:00 Central / 7:00 Eastern.  

As in the last several years, the Auction will be conducted via an AIM Chat Room.  I should be online a little early to invite people to the Chat, but if you don't get an invite please send me an instant message or email.  Please be sure to tell me what teams you will be representing at the auction.  Setting up an AIM account is easy!  Just go to aim.com and make it happen, although I highly recommend testing it on the computer you'll be using in advance of the auction.

The auction will start with the C Players, presented in the order they are listed on the site.  Bidding on C Players will commence at $150K and subsequent bids must be in minimum increments of $20K above that.

After that the auction will move on to the Free Agents, also in the order presented.  Bids on Free Agents will commence at $40K and subsequent bids must be in minimum increments of $10K above that.

As with every year, please be ready to move the auction along fairly briskly so that it doesn't go too late, especially with an very long list of C and FA players this year (longer every season that I've been doing this).  We will be starting promptly at the designated time, so don't be late!

If anyone cannot make the auction, please ask another owner ahead of time (ideally not me since I'll be running the auction and my teams, but I am glad to cover if someone cannot find another owner to agree to do it) to agree to make bids on your team's behalf and to make matching decisions on your C players.  In the unlikely event that someone is not present and is not represented at the auction, that team's C players will *not* be matched at any amount.

Thanks,

-Tom