The automated draft portion will be conducted following the live sealed bid portion.
Participants have the option of submitting a list rather than participating live.
Additionally all participants are encouraged to submit a list incase some unforeseen event precludes them from taking part in the live draft. The live sealed bid section of the draft will be conducted in a Yahoo chat room. The sealed bid is intended to parallel the real world transactions between the owners and players. I probably do not know exactly what the Mariners are offering him. In the real world teams do not have perfect information about what other teams are offering free agents.