Goodness, it's called hedging your bet. If there are 16 teams........and if you bid....say 20k higher than 14 of them....but one team you know might put in a really high bid but it is unlikely you play them......you don't put that high Bid in on the off chance you get matched up with that one team. These bids were put in weeks ago, I don't recall one person ever thinking that we'd be matched up with Nichols. He hedge his bet....and lost. Thank god somebody started a new thread where we talk football. Not coming back to this one again, it's depressing.