Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2017 9:05:34 GMT
First of all let me say I do like this feature very much, I have never come across it in another contract league before in the format we have here - only other time was in a league where it only applied to players who had retained their so called "Bird rights".
However I do believe we need to consider a few points:
1) When managers make bids for restricted free agency I think they need to have a bit of a feeling for what realistically would be a bid that might have some change of success. Lets take an example the present owner with an expiring contract of lets say 20M and cap space of 30M is in all likelihood going to match any bids that is less than 75% that means $ 20M x 4 years = $ 80M x 75% = $ 60M over 4 years. If we now start bidding at even $ 2M per year over 4 years, we will be bidding on these contract until Christmas unless of course the commissioner puts a "drop dead" date on these bids. Please note I am not suggesting this to be true for regular free agent bids.
2) Another thing I need a bit of clarification on is the owner of the player's ability to match suck a contract - what exactly does that mean. Lets say a bid has been tendered for $ 10M over 2 years - do I have to match that exactly or could I for example match it by saying a) $ 5M over 4 years b) $ 10M for 1 year c) $ 21M over 4 years ?
3) Last point here is more of a suggestion than anything else. I would like to suggest that in future years the RFA process be scheduled to co-inside with the Rookie draft and scheduled to be finished when the rookie draft has been completed. I believe the benefit will be that we can then move on to the free agency and trade frenzy all knowing our cap space available for this faze. As it is now it is a bit more difficult to undertake trades as well as free agency bidding not knowing exactly what our potential cap space is.
Anyhow these are just my thoughts and 2 cents worth - I would be very interested in hearing other managers comments on the issue of the RFA process - thanks for taking the time to read this.
However I do believe we need to consider a few points:
1) When managers make bids for restricted free agency I think they need to have a bit of a feeling for what realistically would be a bid that might have some change of success. Lets take an example the present owner with an expiring contract of lets say 20M and cap space of 30M is in all likelihood going to match any bids that is less than 75% that means $ 20M x 4 years = $ 80M x 75% = $ 60M over 4 years. If we now start bidding at even $ 2M per year over 4 years, we will be bidding on these contract until Christmas unless of course the commissioner puts a "drop dead" date on these bids. Please note I am not suggesting this to be true for regular free agent bids.
2) Another thing I need a bit of clarification on is the owner of the player's ability to match suck a contract - what exactly does that mean. Lets say a bid has been tendered for $ 10M over 2 years - do I have to match that exactly or could I for example match it by saying a) $ 5M over 4 years b) $ 10M for 1 year c) $ 21M over 4 years ?
3) Last point here is more of a suggestion than anything else. I would like to suggest that in future years the RFA process be scheduled to co-inside with the Rookie draft and scheduled to be finished when the rookie draft has been completed. I believe the benefit will be that we can then move on to the free agency and trade frenzy all knowing our cap space available for this faze. As it is now it is a bit more difficult to undertake trades as well as free agency bidding not knowing exactly what our potential cap space is.
Anyhow these are just my thoughts and 2 cents worth - I would be very interested in hearing other managers comments on the issue of the RFA process - thanks for taking the time to read this.
