I can't prove anything, but I have the feeling that every season the auctions market becomes less and less generous with the players on offer. Less youngsters (18/19 year olds), less multi-position players and less 95% and above.
If this is genuinely the case it can only be one of two things. To generate bidding wars for younger/better players, increasing token income for Nordeus; or to force us to buy weaker players and use rest packs to train them up, again a benefit to Nordeus.