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Post by Bills GM (Commissioner) on Oct 24, 2013 11:36:47 GMT -5
I just wanted to get my DOT members gears turning and think of things we can add and implement to next yr. Nothing is set in stone, me and Frank are just trying to help keep this league a great place and keep us going for the yrs to come.
Idea Master List
-Every team must field a full lineup. Owners have been submitting lineups of say 10 players which doesnt make this place really competitive at all at times.
-Implement a minimum roster requirement of say 35 players. We start 20 players so having 15 on the bench would force teams almost to be able to field a competitive lineup every week.
-Draft pick maximum, Im thinking anything over a team say having like 20 picks in a draft would be absolutely insane and kind of damaging to the league, maybe even 20 is too much. I respect rebuilding teams, however every team should be in the hunt to pick up a new rookie or two, just to help that team keep fresh every yr.
-How exactly should the comp draft work? should it include teams who had no picks in the rook draft and base it on how they fared in the season?
-What rule changes should we make? I feel like the scoring has been working out pretty good so far, haven't had any major complaints about it.
-I am thinking we should open up a sort of news position so someone can write rumors and opinions on trades and anything in the league. I guess kind of like a football analysis sort of position. I think it would be neat and keep guys interested and maybe boost activity a bit.
-Weekly activity check. I don't think it would be too hard for people to at least sign on once a week and say im here. We should strive for owners that would.
-Concrete RFA signing rules for 2014 RFA's
-Include Guaranteed Money for Free Agents which would add to the points for bidding and count as a cap hit for that first yr
Example: Bills sign Warren Sapp (DT-TB)
4yrs @ 5mil/yr + 5mil guaranteed = 14 points if he were to be cut during this time that first yr he was cut would induce a 5 mil cap hit + the regular cap hit, however the guaranteed money cap hit could be spread out between the yrs of the cap hit.
Maybe we could do signing bonuses as well
4yrs @ 5 mil + 3mil signing bonus = 12 pts then the signing bonus would go in as a cap hit for that first yr he is signed
Maybe you guys could come up with something better for this, just some ideas I got rolling around.
-DOT member reassignment in offseason
Any ideas are welcome guys, Thanks for your time and dedication!
Ryan
Bills GM
Commissioner
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Post by Rams GM (Frank) on Oct 24, 2013 13:03:34 GMT -5
I think the biggest problem we have right now is teams that are not fielding a line up because they are in the midst of building for future years. I too am not against looking ahead, particularly if a team is having a rough year. I think we need to enforce the minimum roster requirements, and I especially like raising the minimum roster requirement, I'm good with the 35 man requirement as recommended by the Commish. I think setting a draft pick maximum is another great idea. I would probably be in favor of something in the 15 to 18 range per year.
Another thing I would like to see is a maximum requirement of 2 CB's in weekly line-ups. Just like we have to set line-ups at every other position that mimic a real life NFL franchise, all franchises play a minimum of two CB's, and in a pass happy NFL era, it's not unusual to see 3 CB's on the field at any given time in the NFL.
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Post by Rams GM (Frank) on Oct 24, 2013 13:17:15 GMT -5
The other thing we need to do every off-season is reassess DOT members. We need active members who are here to vote on trades in a reasonable amount of time so trades don't get too back logged. I understand that people have their lives to live, and I respect that, but trades cannot sit in limbo for nearly a week at a time. I think it will be a natural progression that we continually lose owners and have to replace them, and in that process we will most likely lose some DOT members.
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Post by Rams GM (Frank) on Oct 24, 2013 13:46:59 GMT -5
Another thought I have is how about adding a punter to our line ups, not sure if MFL keeps punting stats, but it's an idea that I'm throwing out there.
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Post by Bills GM (Commissioner) on Oct 24, 2013 14:25:23 GMT -5
Im not really a big punter fan myself, but we can look in to that if people want
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Post by Rams GM (Frank) on Nov 1, 2013 10:33:04 GMT -5
I know a while back we talked about adding a second contract extension, and I'm not sure I really like that because it may dry up free agency, but how about one contract restructure per year? I have no idea how you would do that, but I know that there are a few long term contracts out there that are really killing owners. Again, I really haven't thought through it other than I know it happens in the NFL with high salary players. Just a thought.
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Post by Bills GM (Commissioner) on Nov 1, 2013 15:12:30 GMT -5
That could work out, do it with say "guaranteed money," and say you got Drew Brees (im making up his contract) who is $10/$20/$20/$20 to lighten the burden you restructure his deal. so say the $10 is in 2014, but in 2014 you will have some free cap floating around you can take say $2mil off eqch other yr turning them in to $18/$18/$18 then add that $6 mil to the 2014 price of $10 effectively making 2014 cost you $16, and turning his contract in to $16/$18/$18/$18. it would have to require a restriction though say players only over $10 mil in a certain yr are allowed to do so and you cant go under $5 mil for that player in any given year if his contract is consistantly above $5 mil
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Post by Bills GM (Commissioner) on Nov 1, 2013 15:15:29 GMT -5
I also think something like that should be voteed on so teams arent trying to purposely tank any given year inte cap department just to ensure the following yrs their star player is super cheap... idk. I kinda like the idea... maybe we should come up with another list of things the NFL does, so we can try to incorporate them.
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Post by Rams GM (Frank) on Nov 2, 2013 8:34:06 GMT -5
What if we made a two tiered contract restructured contract system. Any player contract that averages 10+ million a year can move around 2 million per year in guaranteed money to restructure contracts, and then have another tier for contracts that average 5+ million a year where they get to restructure a contract with a maximum of 1 million per year. I guess what I am thinking is about some of those contract extensions that may get a little expensive. For example: if you have contract X: 6.5/6.5/6.5/UFA and you need just a little more cap room to maneuver in the up coming year you could do either 5.5/7.5/6.5 or 5.5/6.5/7.5. Or if you believe your not going to have the best year you could do 7.5/6.5/5.5. In then end, what matters is that contract is accounted for in guaranteed money and that the deal averages the same amount of money per year however its restructured. Though a million dollars is not a whole lot of money, it does give some cash strapped owners contending a little more flexibility if need be, while still holding them accountable to the original terms of the contract. I'm just kind of thinking out loud and shooting from the hip on this idea, so if someone has better one please chime in.
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Post by Bills GM (Commissioner) on Nov 2, 2013 9:17:49 GMT -5
I like both ways but I think your idea would need a limit or restriction of some sort as well so any given player isnt overloaded a certain yr on a contract, and maybe have it availible for a certain amount of players per team just as a test yr ya know. If it were allowed for every single player on ones team, we would get absolutely flooded, but if we limit it to say 5 players for this offseason to test it out for now and see how dynamic it is to help teams, we could do more in the future.
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Post by Bills GM (Commissioner) on Nov 2, 2013 9:19:31 GMT -5
What if teams could forfeit picks to drop cap on a player, say you got that $20/$20/$20/$20 line on a guy you could forfeit a 2nd to drop it down $5mil a yr.. This may be a little too wild though, just a thought.
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Post by Rams GM (Frank) on Nov 2, 2013 9:48:09 GMT -5
I was actually thinking just of limiting it to one restructure per year, to go along with the one extension per year so owners would have to use it sparingly.
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Post by Rams GM (Frank) on Nov 2, 2013 9:53:44 GMT -5
Hmmm... that forfeiting a pick could be interesting. I think we would have to discuss in great detail the amount of money a forfeited picks could save you. Were you thinking a certain amount of money for one year off the contract, or for multiple years? For example: 20/20/20/20 were you thinking 5M off every year, or just one year?
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Post by Bills GM (Commissioner) on Nov 2, 2013 10:20:06 GMT -5
if ots only one then we should make it a considerable amount of cap you could move... or we can just do it by cap? any amount of players but you can restructure 10 mil in cap
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Post by Rams GM (Frank) on Nov 16, 2013 13:42:19 GMT -5
These are some ideas brought to my attention by the 49ers GM "hey Frank...... I saw a couple of days ago you were asking what improvements can be made in regards to the league scoring. One thing I was thinking about was in reference to this:
Long Rushing Plays of 20+ Yards 1 point each
Long Rushing Plays of 40+ Yards 1 point each
it also applies to Passing & Receiving yards as well, it says 1 point each for such plays why not just make it 1pt for each 20+ & 2 or 3 pts for each 40+. it just seems to make more sense to me.
also in regards to kicking game, couldn't we give Kickers an extra 3 points for making game winning field goals?
just some thoughts, thanks for listening" |
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