The START TIME for the C/FA Auction SATURDAY FEB 24 will be 5:00 Central / 6:00 Eastern / 4:37 am Eric Standard Time.
We will again be using the much more user-friendly slack.com for the auction. Since AIM doesn't even exist any more, I figure that sticking with slack is a no-brainer. If you don't already have a slack account just go to slack.com and create a free one. It takes like 30 seconds, tops.
The specific chat will be 2018arbaauction [ie when you go to slack.com and it asks you for your workspace, type that into the box that appears before the ".slack.com" and hit continue.
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 (still 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.
Turns out that you do indeed need an invite to the slack chat room. Everyone should now have one. Please let me know (ideally before Saturday night) if anyone is having any issues.
