Jared A wrote:We've had this discussion before, and it seemed like most of the league didn't like being able to have 70+ people on your roster until August. Seems like teams without cap problems would be at a disadvantage.
How would they be at a disadvantage?
Because teams with large amounts of cap space are trying to sign big name players. By the time the big name players are all signed, all the small name players are taken by teams who would be over the cap.
Jared A wrote:We've had this discussion before, and it seemed like most of the league didn't like being able to have 70+ people on your roster until August. Seems like teams without cap problems would be at a disadvantage.
How would they be at a disadvantage?
Because teams with large amounts of cap space are trying to sign big name players. By the time the big name players are all signed, all the small name players are taken by teams who would be over the cap.
Unless we start doing free agency in tiers.
I see your point. But the teams who have cap problems still sign the lower cost players and just cut another guy. If your focusing on the high price guys you still gonna lose out on other players.
Myself I have never liked the bid amount where it is because we supposedly strive to let the market set the price of players, but yet every year I watch players go that I would bid more on but don't have enough bids. yes there is strategy to it that is fun, and i don't know how insane unlimited bids would be
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I thought I replied to this, but I don't see my comments, so I'll try again (maybe they are floating around in another thread...).
I don't feel strongly either way, but I think this should be something way on the back burner if we want to move to it. I've though about suggesting it in the past, but I worry about the added complication. The tool would have to be well tested in advance, and I don't think it would be smart to quickly switch to this. Any glitch could possibly be easily exploited and hard to find. Also, I think you'd have to provide teams with info on what the cap hit of their 52nd player would be so they could predict what cutting a top 51 player would do to their cap. Right now, you can easily calculate the cost of any move. I'd rather not have to count out my top 51 guys or click on cutting a player just to go to the confirm page which would tell me the cap consequences.
Putting all of this together, I just don't see enough benefit to move to this. Troy has talked about automating the leagues more and adding other tools, and I think these are much better things to put manpower into in the immediate future.
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Royce R wrote:I see your point. But the teams who have cap problems still sign the lower cost players and just cut another guy. If your focusing on the high price guys you still gonna lose out on other players.
But, at least they're putting that "one" guy back out into the market. Instead of hording 85 players on their roster and seeing which one pans out... they have to take a calculated risk.
