Every Squad,
Actually Balanced.

Categories (also called player groups) let you split your auction pool into custom buckets — Icon Players, A/B/C grade, Overseas, Local, or anything your event needs. Each category gets its own base price, and you set a compulsory minimum every team must buy from it, so squads come out balanced instead of one team hoarding all the top players.

They solve different problems. The Group Draw Wheel randomly splits teams into pool-stage groups for a tournament — it has nothing to do with auctions. Player categories are entirely within a single auction: they organise the player pool itself and enforce how many players from each category every team must acquire.

AuctionPro tracks this automatically. In system-conducted auctions, unsold players from a category are automatically re-offered before the auction moves on, so teams get a real chance to hit their minimum. In admin-run auctions, you get a simple prompt the moment a category empties out with unsold players remaining — re-auction the unsold ones first, or move on. Either way, nothing blocks the auction and it's always your call.

Yes. Icon Players might start at ₹2,00,000 while a Local category starts at ₹20,000 — set it once per category and every player in it inherits that base price automatically, including players added later via CSV import.

Yes — the current player's category shows live on the auction screen, the public watch page, and the OBS broadcast overlay. After the auction, category names also appear on the public results page next to each player, so the squad breakdown is transparent to everyone.

Yes. The player list has a category filter and column once categories exist, and you can bulk-assign players to a category with checkboxes, or set it per row in your CSV import — no need to open each player individually.