Pre-Auction
Player Retentions
- With a salary purse of INR ₹100 crore available at the Auction, the eight existing teams can retain
up to four players. A maximum of
2 of which can be
overseas players.
- Players
struck through in respective team posts are ineligible for retentions, owing to retirements and/or suspensions.
Delhi Capitals -
@Aislabie
Chennai Super Kings -
@ahmedleo414
Kolkata Knight Riders -
@RUDI/
@Umair7
Mumbai Indians -
@NILAYSHAH60
Punjab Kings -
@ABDULLAH/
@CerealKiller
Rajasthan Royals -
@Gaurav_7/
@Life Warrior
Royal Challengers Bangalore -
@Neptune
Sunrisers Hyderabad -
@Till Valhalla/
@TSPrathik
- All 8 existing franchises can go ahead and post their retentions now.
New Picks
Gujarat Titans -
@Khan Sahab54
Lucknow Super Giants -
@Parth D/
@Pinch hitter
- The two new teams can pick
up to four released/unsigned players in a draft before the Mega Auction. Details will be shared after all retentions are confirmed.
Deduction from Salary Purse
- Following amounts will be deducted from each team's Salary Purse before the start of the Mega Auction for player retentions/signings.
| Players Retained/Signed | | Price of Player 1 | | Price of Player 2 | | Price of Player 3 | | Price of Player 4 | | Deduction from Salary Purse |
|
|---|
| 4 | | ₹15 crore | | ₹14 crore | | ₹13 crore | | ₹12 crore | | ₹54 crore |
|
| 3 | | ₹14 crore | | ₹13 crore | | ₹12 crore | | — | | ₹39 crore |
|
| 2 | | ₹13 crore | | ₹12 crore | | — | | — | | ₹25 crore |
|
| 1 | | ₹12 crore | | — | | — | | — | | ₹12 crore | |
- As per request from Till Valhalla, Mega Auction will start a couple of days after all Player Pools have been made public to allow members to strategize.
- Exact start date for the Mega Auction will be decided once
all of the pre-auction preamble is completed.
- Each round/pool of players will automatically 'expire' 24 hours after it's begun - the leading bid(s) will automatically win. Let's hope we finish it quicker though.
- It is not mandatory to bid in any round, if you wish to pull out of a particular round, please say so. It will save us some time.
- If you wish to not increase any of your bids on one or multiple players and end your round, please say so, that will also save us some time.
General Rules
- Each franchise will have a Salary Purse of ₹100 crore (INR) to spend at the Mega Auction.
- Each of the existing franchises can retain up to four players from their previous squad before the Mega Auction.
- The two new franchises may sign up to four players from all released and unpicked players from last season before the Mega Auction.
- All teams will be deducted a set amount from their ₹100c Salary Purse for player retentions and signings. Which is:-
- You may also go into the Mega Auction with all ₹100c of your Salary Purse if you choose to
not retain or sign any player.
- Bidding rounds will happen in Pools. Each Pool will consist of 10 players and any franchise can bet on up to 6 players from a single round.
- Bidding increments may happen in ₹10 lacs until a bid reaches ₹2 crore. ₹25 lacs until a bid reaches ₹5 crores and ₹50 lacs after a player's value exceeds ₹5 cores.
₹10 lacs is one decimal to a crore: ₹1.1 crore is an acceptable bid but ₹1.01 crore is not.
- You need to have a minimum of 18 players after the completion of the Mega Auction, a maximum of 7 of which can be overseas players.
- Since there will be injuries, a team can sign
up to 5 reserve players with of them being an 1 overseas player. You don't have to, but you could if you wanted to.
Reserve players will be substituted into the main squad if someone goes down to injury.
- If you blow your budget and are unable to bid the base price of the lowest category player (₹20 lacs), your bid will be automatically rejected.
Base Prices for Players & Player Pools
- Capped player (Indian or foreign) - ₹1 crore
- Uncapped player (Indian or foreign) - ₹50 lacs
- Youth/U19 player (Indian or foreign) - ₹20 lacs
- Player Pools for the Mega Auction will be formed after retentions and new picks are complete.
- General player rules also applicable (no retired cricketers unless they play List-A or First Class cricket, and no T20-only cricketers).
Important Notes
- Deletion or alteration of bids will result in a ₹10 lac penalty for first offense, ₹50 lac penalty for second offense and ₹1 crore + ejection from that round for third offense.
Massive, massive shoutout to Nilay, Aislabie, Gaurav, Neptune and Till Valhalla for their invaluable input regarding the system used here. I hope I didn't forget anyone. _/\_
