Yes, this bidding against managers from different levels really is a crock of ****!
As we don't know what price they will have to pay - we don't know if they have the funds = cannot compute!
As their squads show all 10* or all 1* (whatever) - we don't know how important it is for them that they buy the player being bid on = cannot compute!
So far it seems as if all strategy has been deleted from auctions.