I have to say after reading about these supposed bot bidders i started to try and look like a bot bidder.

I started to always bid exactly 3 seconds into each knockout round. Since doing it i dont think any player i have bid on has went past 6 rounds including day 1 of this season when i got 5, 5*star players for a total of 17 tokens. Normally on day 1 of any season you quite easily spend 17 tokens on 1 player.