World Cup Auction Draft Pool

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Rules for the draft:

1. Everyone starts with "$100" to bid on teams.
2. Everyone will draft 5 teams total.
3. You can only bid in whole dollar amounts. The minimum bid for any team is $1.
4. Your maximum bid on any team is your remaining money minus $1 for each additional team you still need to draft. E.G. if you've already drafted one team for $40, you have $60 remaining, so your maximum bid on a team is $57 (leaving $3 for three more teams).
5. At the start of the draft we'll randomly set a draft order for everyone drafting.
6. Taking turns starting with the first person and going in a circular order (1,2,..5,6,1..6,1..), that person will nominate a team for drafting from the remaining undrafted teams and must make an initial bid of at least $1. Then going in turn order people can make higher bids, with the highest bidder winning that team.

• 6a. Everyone must pass (not make a new higher bid) consecutively for the auction to end.
• 6b. When making a bid, you must bid at least $1 higher than the current highest bid.

7. Once you have drafted 5 teams, you cannot nominate or bid on any further teams, even if you have money left over.

Rules for the tournament:

1. You score 3 points for every match one of your teams wins.
2. You score 1 point for every match one of your teams ties (group stage only).
3. You get 2 bonus points for each one of your teams that makes it out of the group stage.
4. You get 1 bonus point for each one of your teams that wins its group.
5. The winner is whoever earns the most total points by the end of the cup.

• 5a. In case of a tie, total goals scored by all your teams will be used as a tiebreaker.
• 5b. If necessary, total goals scored against all your teams (lower is better) will be the second tiebreaker.
• 5c. If there is still a tie, the tied players will split the prize pool