About Footbauction
Footbauction is a free football auction game for you and your friends. You bid against each other for real players, arrange the squad you won into a starting eleven, and a simulated tournament decides who actually built the best team.
What this is
A game about football knowledge, played in a browser.
The idea is simple enough to explain in a sentence: everyone gets the same budget, the players come up one at a time, and what you know about football has to survive contact with what everyone else is willing to pay. There is no download, no account and no sign up. One person creates a lobby, shares a five-character code, and the whole game runs in the browser.
The full rules — the auction, the budget reserve, the lineup, the tournament — are written out in the how to play guide.
Who runs it
One person, not a company.
Footbauction is an independent project, built and operated by Francisco Jeivan Ricardo Coutinho Filho, an individual established in British Columbia, Canada. Footbauction is the name the project is presented under; the person responsible for the site, and for the personal information it handles, is the person named here.
Footbauction is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by or connected to any football club, league, competition, federation, governing body, player or media organisation.
Where the player data comes from
Compiled by hand, as a personal study.
The player list — names, positions, clubs, status and ratings — was compiled manually, as part of a personal study of football history, by consulting a range of historical sources. It was not imported or adapted from any single dataset, website or game.
The ratings are subjective assessments made for the purposes of this game. They are not official statistics, they are not endorsed by anyone, and they are not put forward as factual claims about any player's ability. They exist to give the auction something to argue about.
Footbauction refers to real footballers, and to names associated with well-known competitions, in order to describe the squads and the player pools a game can use. That use is descriptive. If you believe something on the site should not be there, write and say so — the address is below.
Contact
One address, read by a person.
- Operator
- Francisco Jeivan Ricardo Coutinho Filho, individual
- Established in
- British Columbia, Canada
Questions, corrections, privacy requests and complaints all go to the same address. How your information is handled is set out in the privacy policy, and the rules for using the site are in the terms of service.
That is the whole story. Create a lobby, send the code to your friends, and find out who really knows a squad when they see one.
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