How IPL Auctions Work Policy & Terms

Every franchise starts an auction with a fixed budget, a purse, and every player up for auction goes to whichever team bids the most for them, no snake order, no guaranteed pick. Run out of purse before you've filled a squad and you're stuck with whoever's still on the table at a price you can afford. Spend early and big on stars and you may not have enough left for the depth a full season needs.

A franchise doesn't start from zero every season. Before the auction opens, each team can retain a handful of players from their existing squad, at a price that rises steeply for each one kept, keeping a core group together costs real purse, and paying for it eats into what's left to spend on everyone else. It's the central tension of franchise cricket: continuity versus a fresh squad built at full value.

A squad has hard limits: how many players total, how many can be from outside the league's home country, and how many of those overseas players can actually take the field in any given XI. In T20 Franchise Manager that's an 18-man squad, up to 6 overseas players in it, and no more than 4 of them in your starting XI for any one match, the same shape of constraint every real T20 league auction runs under, even where the exact numbers differ league to league.

In the game, that auction isn't a cutscene, you make every pick against a live purse, same as a real franchise's recruitment team. Retain a core into next season, or blow it up and rebuild. Then you're not done: in-season tactical calls like the Power Surge, and a mid-season transfer window, mean the squad you auctioned isn't the squad you finish the year with.

Run your own auction in T20 Franchise Manager, across the IPL, BBL and other global T20 leagues.