I have had previous seasons with "ghost auctions" as Cloverfield put it- easily win, rarely saw bidders at the time I was looking, good deals with no bids.

In another season I considered that the group of players who are in (or share access to) "my" auction list probably changes season to season. Sometimes in league we play nearly the same teams 2-3 seasons it feels, then all new faces.... So I suspect the same in auction. Some seasons the auction and league opponents seem to be mostly from a similar time zone or geographic area (one that gives me many AM match times, mostly evening for them, fair times for both).

I wouldn't expect to see a "full list" of 5* players, there are lots of ways to exclude that possibility if Nord wants.