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Post by Rams GM (Frank) on Feb 14, 2015 16:44:34 GMT -5
I'm just wondering if we should put a limit on the number of free agents that the league as a whole can bid on at one time. In another league that I am in, it tries to control the free agency frenzy by limiting the number of free agents in the offseason by 10 at a time. Whenever one free agent is won, then any league member can nominate another free agent to be bid on. I'm just thinking about this because every year there seems to be a GM or two that will bid up prices of players by bidding as much money as they can. Often times, it also becomes a question of whether that GM even has enough money to even win a potential free agent. Also, a system like this makes it easier for the more patient GM, who can sit back and let other GM's spend all their money early in free agency and pick up some bargain players at reasonable contract prices. It will also gives us a longer offseason to keep busy and maintain interest in the league.
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Post by Bills GM (Anthony) on Feb 14, 2015 16:46:08 GMT -5
I like this idea frank and would vote to support it if it went to vote
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Post by Bills GM (Anthony) on Feb 14, 2015 16:46:40 GMT -5
Would also allow free agency to take more time. This will create lots of league activity for longer periods of time
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Post by Lions GM on Feb 14, 2015 16:56:16 GMT -5
I like it frank
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2015 17:17:37 GMT -5
I like the thought, but I would like more than 10 players at a time. I believe that free agency should be a strategy to build your team. If you limit it to 10 players and allow any league member to nominate a new free agent, you lose activity from all of the owners and only those that are online at the right time or League management will nominate the players. Most of the nominating will be done by a select few and it takes the strategy of nominating players out of the hands of all.
Once again...I agree with Frank's proposal, but I would like to make a small modification to see 32 players nominated at a time. The basis for this number is that each GM has a say in who is nominated and to execute their particular free agency strategy. Once their nominated player has been signed to a free agent deal, the owner that nominated that player (not the winner of the free agent bid) would then nominate another player. If an owner does not nominate a player within 12 hours of a winning free agent bid, then the player that won the free agent would nominate a player. I would encourage all owners to watch the status of their free agent nominations, in order to not lose this privilege. A minimum bid to open a player to free agency is enough to keep each owner active. Hopefully, we have 32 owners that will be active and want to Build their Dynasty.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2015 1:19:13 GMT -5
I like Franks' proposal..... yet I'm against it, simply put we have a hard cap here in this league. So we already know the amount that can be spent &we also have a roster limit, so I see no need to limit the amount of free agents a team can have per off-season. I think we should leave things the way they are in this regard.
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Post by Rams GM (Frank) on Feb 15, 2015 6:22:04 GMT -5
I'm open to the idea of allowing the league to bid on more then 10 free agents at a time, but not 32. That seems too much at one time and defeats the purpose of a more controlled free agency period. I think maybe 12 or 15 could work. The way we nominate players Im open for ideas, many owners sit back and react to free agency, and focusing on all 32 owners may be tough because that is not the style of many GM's. Allowing league mangers to nominate players takes away certain strategy aspects of free agency as well. Lets remember, offseason free agency really lasts a short time, in my experience it lasts no longer than a week and a half to two weeks. A first come first serve method of nominating players can play out nicely because if there are lower tier players that maybe targeted, they will begin to cost less after many GM's have exhausted much of their cap on the bigger free agents early in the free agent frenzy process.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2015 10:30:56 GMT -5
I like Franks' proposal..... yet I'm against it, simply put we have a hard cap here in this league. So we already know the amount that can be spent &we also have a roster limit, so I see no need to limit the amount of free agents a team can have per off-season. I think we should leave things the way they are in this regard. Just to clarify...Frank's proposal is to limit the number of free agents the league as a whole nominates and bids on at a time. It does not cap the number of free agents a team can bid on at any moment or win during the season (up to their roster limits & salary cap, of course).
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Post by Rams GM (Frank) on Feb 15, 2015 10:32:01 GMT -5
I like Franks' proposal..... yet I'm against it, simply put we have a hard cap here in this league. So we already know the amount that can be spent &we also have a roster limit, so I see no need to limit the amount of free agents a team can have per off-season. I think we should leave things the way they are in this regard. Just to clarify...Frank's proposal is to limit the number of free agents the league as a whole nominates and bids on at a time. It does not cap the number of free agents a team can bid on (up to their roster limits & salary cap, of course) at any moment.
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Post by Bills GM (Commissioner) on Feb 15, 2015 22:45:22 GMT -5
The way we run the show there is also a separate free agency in essence with Undrafted rookies, we could do a 20-10 split so 20 reg free agents at once and 10 URFA or something of that variance, but the only real issue is when free agency first kicks off pandemonium ensues... even if this were to apply to the first week or so we would be in better shape. One thing I always have been a fan of is using newer rules at a limited degree as a trial basis one year and then reevaluate them the following year, I think thats how we as a whole have become pretty successful.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2015 0:00:19 GMT -5
all I was saying was with the cap limit & roster limit we already have in place, guys just simply need to do a better job prioritizing which player they need.... & caution needs to be taken as to the amount & length of contact that we're willing to give said player. Which is what we do already, but even with the increase in cap we still can't go overboard.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2015 10:41:10 GMT -5
Free agency (similar to an auction draft) is a strategy and everyone should be able to nominate players. Not every team will nominate someone that actually want to sign in free agency. It is all part of the strategy. Taking that away from everyone in the league, diminishes the league as a whole. The way that it is currently proposed for 10 players, it is going to end up that the league management and those that are lucky to be on at a certain time are the ones that are going to nominate players.
Since this league is for all 32 teams, it should be used as a resource for all 32 teams.
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Post by Rams GM (Frank) on Feb 17, 2015 10:16:54 GMT -5
There doesn't seem to be a big desire to change the free agent format, so we will skip putting a limit on how many free agents can be nominated at a time by the league. This measure will canceled and we will stick with how we've been doing it in the past.
Thanks
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