2024 RULES: UDFA bidding
Posted: Sun May 12, 2024 9:28 pm
Once our college drafts are over, undrafted free agents (UDFAs) hit the free agency market. Last year I believe we'd already transitioned away from peak free agency to regular season free agency mode (more privacy on bids to avoid others cherry-picking off other people's research, no signing soon filtering). The only way you'd know a UDFA had bids was if you clicked on their bid page. There are some other UDFA signing rules like a fixed overall signing bonus budget and realistic limits on bids.
It may have been different in some other years depending upon if free agency pages were switched away from peak mode or not yet, and overall scheduling of free agency and draft timing.
But what would you prefer? A more open information UDFA bidding season or more private to reward those who are better at researching those players and not notifying everyone who has bids or not? We'll try to hard code that more for consistency year-to-year if strong support one way or the other.
It may have been different in some other years depending upon if free agency pages were switched away from peak mode or not yet, and overall scheduling of free agency and draft timing.
But what would you prefer? A more open information UDFA bidding season or more private to reward those who are better at researching those players and not notifying everyone who has bids or not? We'll try to hard code that more for consistency year-to-year if strong support one way or the other.