Post by Rams GM (Frank) on Dec 28, 2018 17:58:09 GMT -5
This has been the hottest topic this offseason here at Legacy NFL, concerning potential rule changes. Initially I was going to take executive action in regards to addressing some of these concerns, but after further reflection I will allow the league GM's to decide. As I see it, as of now, we can keep the current free-for-all 24 hour clock method that is pretty standard across these types of leagues, with the imperfections of sniping that seems to frustrate everyone, and the inability for LM to properly keep tabs on current bids.
Or we can go with another option which would be to limit how many allowed nominations we can have at one time for free agency. If we were to establish a maximum of 20 free agents bids at a time, this would force GM's to pick and choose when and how to spend there money, in what would be a longer free agency process. It would eliminate some of the sniping that many GM's are frustrated with, but not all. It would also be less of a burden on LM to keep track of outstanding bids, and total cap numbers while outstanding bids are on the clock. Honestly, its almost impossible for LM to keep track of all outstanding bids in the free-for-all system, unless GM's begin to personally police free agency on their own.
The other aspect that is nice, is a longer free agency period. Ive seen it many times where some GM's are late to free agency by 36-48 hours and have missed out on critical chunk of free agency. We play a league that is virtually year round, and then when it comes to free agency its main load of quality players are off the board in 48-72 hours. The limited method would allow a grander strategy of bids, where resources can be used in different ways and allows the blockade aspect of the game to be minimized.
That being said: This limited approach to free agency has been tried in another league I was in, and it works very well with much less frustration. It will also create various different markets within the realm of free agency. Typically, big money will go in the first wave of free agency, in the second wave money will tend to moderate, and then we will have a bargain round once all the big money is off the boards. That is a general idea of what I have witnessed in these types of limited free agency approach.
I will let the league decide...