Auction in the good old days?

[pele]

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Each time you bid, it cost you a token you didn't get back. This resulted in a lot of strategy with only bidding on players you actually wanted and thought you could get. It also gave bidding wars higher stakes, as when you lost out in an auction, you gave away tokens for nothing. So you had to judge how long the other bidders were willing to go.
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Wow. This is brutal. Managers could end up spending a lot of tokens without managing to sign a single player.