2010 RULES: Non/Exclusive Franchise Tag Details
Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 6:36 pm
We've hit on most of these questions between two polls, and almost just posted a conclusion from those but wanted to lay out the options against each other directly first.
We'll add an exclusive franchise tag meaning soon you could designate one of your top players who'd be a UFA as an exclusive franchise player and no team could even bid on him and he'd automatically return to your team at a top 5 salary and you'd get some extension options (similarly to non-exclusive franchise tagged players who don't get bids), but just have to figure out if we are going to use a higher salary base for those years for exclusive versus non-exclusive like reality (top 5 last year versus top 5 this year) or some other way of making exclusive tag cost more (raising the extension costs) or if people think the price should be the same exactly for exclusive or non-exclusive despite it usually costing more to do exclusive in the NFL.
The comlication comes from exclusive tags in reality not being known and published until mid April because they are based upon 2010 top 5 salaries by position (versus non-exclusive top 5 from last year). We could just start with the non-exclusive salary base for exclusive tags and let teams know that may increase in April if the NFL puts out an exclusive list, or just ignore that salary difference because of the complication.
We'll add an exclusive franchise tag meaning soon you could designate one of your top players who'd be a UFA as an exclusive franchise player and no team could even bid on him and he'd automatically return to your team at a top 5 salary and you'd get some extension options (similarly to non-exclusive franchise tagged players who don't get bids), but just have to figure out if we are going to use a higher salary base for those years for exclusive versus non-exclusive like reality (top 5 last year versus top 5 this year) or some other way of making exclusive tag cost more (raising the extension costs) or if people think the price should be the same exactly for exclusive or non-exclusive despite it usually costing more to do exclusive in the NFL.
The comlication comes from exclusive tags in reality not being known and published until mid April because they are based upon 2010 top 5 salaries by position (versus non-exclusive top 5 from last year). We could just start with the non-exclusive salary base for exclusive tags and let teams know that may increase in April if the NFL puts out an exclusive list, or just ignore that salary difference because of the complication.