That does not bother me, because I only bid on a player that I deem worthy of wasting a ton of tokens on. If you want to waste your tokens, by all means, do so. I will happily waste 49 tokens on a player that I want. I dont have a ton of tokens and dont buy any, but I stock them up with smart bidding and am not afraid to run up the cost to 49 tokens and then stop, just so the other player pays 50 tokens and could have bought a scout. I have done that several times just for fun. and I do laugh when I see people bid several times in a round, and I have won many times because I always bid first, every time, for every player, so everyone knows I am not playing around hoping to bid at the last second. 99% of the time, I win this way.
and this is not personal Barca FC, I am just saying to the OP that tactics that you employ dont always work.