Did they think that they needed to leading bidder to win rather than you only need 1 token to qualify for the next round?

All that frantic bidding will push the $ value of the player sky high, They will learn when they spend 200 tokens on a auction and they lose to someone that bids 1 token per knockout round, To succeed in Top Eleven its very important to learn exactly how the auction works and how to play the 'knockout rounds'

200 tokens = 4x 6* scout players each.