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In an auction draft each team has a £250 budget. On each turn there’s a nomination phase, and a bidding phase. In the nomination phase, the selected manager chooses a player to nominate for the auction. The nominator automatically bids £1 for the player, and then there’s a period of time where managers can bid. The manager who makes the highest valid bid wins the player, and the amount paid is subtracted from their balance. Nomination order follows the same reversing order as a snake draft. Teams whose squads are already full are skipped. The draft continues until everyone has filled the squad size configured for the league. Your bid must leave at least £1 for every squad place that will still be empty after the purchase. This means your maximum available bid can be lower than the balance shown for your team.

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Max bids

You can set max bids before or during the draft. This is the most you are willing to pay for a player. We will automatically bid up to this amount for you. But we will only ever bid £1 more than the previous highest bid up to the maximum you have set. You can continue to bid manually even after the maximum bid has been reached. But we won’t automatically bid for you after this point. For example, if you set a max bid of £80 for a player, and someone else bids £50, we will automatically bid £51 for you. But if someone bids £80, we will no longer bid for you. When several managers have max bids, the price rises only enough to beat the next-highest valid max bid, without exceeding the leading manager’s maximum. For example, if you have a max bid of £80 for a player, and someone else has a max bid of £70, we will automatically bid £71 for you.

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Time per pick

The time per pick is set for each league. It’s typically 30 seconds. But there will be a minimum of 10 seconds after any bid is made. For example, if you make a bid with 20 seconds remaining, the clock will continue to count down from 20 seconds. But if you make a bid with 3 seconds remaining, we will reset the clock to 10 seconds so that everyone has enough time to make a higher bid.

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When the clock runs out

If the clock runs out in the nomination phase, we automatically nominate a valid player for the nominator. This will be as follows:
  • The valid player with their highest max bid.
  • If none is available, the valid player with the highest Draft Fantasy rating.
When the clock runs out in the bidding phase, the team with the highest bid wins the player.

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Remaining budget

By default there is no benefit to having budget left after the auction. The budget is only used for the draft and has no purpose once the draft is complete. The exception is FAAB waivers. If your commissioner sets an “Auction leftover → FAAB” rate, any budget you have left when the draft finishes is converted into FAAB waiver budget at that rate. For example, at a rate of 1, £30 of unspent budget becomes £30 of FAAB; at a rate of 2 it becomes £60. When this is enabled, spending every last pound in the auction is not always the best move.