It depends a lot of the servers.

For exemple in one of my teams in the last 3 seasons, i have manage to bought 5* players on the 1st day of the season for 1T, because there arent any bid wars. But on day 2 they start and get worst on day 3.

This season i even manage to buy a 19 years old Freekick specialist with 1 token on day one.

It seems that now everybody are afraid to bid on day one, so there is no one on the auction.