Matching Bids
It’s time for everyone’s favourite part of football: maths. Before going into detail, here’s the absolute basics of matching: teams spend a pick or picks equivalent to the calculated value of the bid, and get the player. Teams cannot choose which picks to match with, they must use whatever their next available pick is, then the pick after that if necessary, and so on. If a bid came in at 15 and a team had pick 16, 28, 35, and 44 they would lose pick 16. They could not choose to use the later picks first. The team that made the bid then selects another player, which can be another bid if they want.