2014 RULES: Free Agency Changes

[charlie813brown]

The last minute thing is a decent idea, but don't forget, one of your league members lives in China. My last minute bids happen because I JUST WOKE UP. FA is killer for me as it is, especially the draft, but rules shouldnt be in place to penalize timing.

What brought you to China, cb?

I have been living here since 2009, I work for an English Education company as their Academic Director for Western Teachers, we have about 110 teachers in 15 cities. It is a great life. I love it.

[charlie813brown]

About changing the format of a contract, shifting your counter offer to much more SB instead, etc. the only way I can see something like that working is supporting a different point system or formula as I posted earlier in this thread that makes the bid comparisons more sophisticated and can compare two very different types of offers and judge which is a higher bid to our sim players. Hasn't been a lot of support, or suggested variations on that, etc. so outside of finding a much better evaluation method that gets a lot of support we'll probably keep the counter bid proccess similar to now but just ensure that raises raise the overall values and that adding a small bonus is only a valid counter on a small bid but not on a $10M contract, etc.

I love the point system idea. If i could vote 10 times for it i would. I hate when i can't change base salary into signing bonus.

[Ulrich82]

I really like the proposed points system. I agree with Royce. I don't like being locked into a certain contract length or minimum salary because of a previous bid. It seemed like a necessary evil, but a move to such a point system would solve it.

I think the example given is great. I see why we can't just switch to largest cap number because in that case, your bid 3 would beat bid 2. I think the points are excellent. They show bid 1 and 3 being similar, but bid three getting the slight edge because of the larger guarantee. Meanwhile, bid 2 edges them both out due to the large guarantee and long term commitment.

[Goodell]

That's just one take on it also. Certainly lots of different ways different elements of a bid could be emphasized over the other to determine sim value. I'm going to try to put a test page together for something like that and something like minor adjustments to the old way and have people take a look and see which is preferred for us to switch to for free agency.

[Knighty Knight]

The last minute thing is a decent idea, but don't forget, one of your league members lives in China. My last minute bids happen because I JUST WOKE UP. FA is killer for me as it is, especially the draft, but rules shouldnt be in place to penalize timing.

And I live in Africa so I'm the last person on the globe to bid since we start in the east coast.

I'm also in favor of implementing the new bid system the commish came up with and improving it as we go. Or developing it over the next year for implementation next off season.

[tkienast]

Definitely would like to see a new bid system that allows you to change the base pay and shift it to guaranteed money, etc.

[RebelFan]

Why not make it to where the 2nd bid can't decrease the total value of the contract, but can reduce salary & add to SB?
ie -
Bid 1 - $10M / year salary - $0 SB over 5 years
Bid 2 - $5.5 M / year salary - $25M SB over 5 years (5.5 instead of 5 so the yearly total still increases)
Bid 3 - $3.7 M / year salary - $35M SB over 5 years

As long as the overall money doesn't decrease, and the guaranteed amount doesn't decrease, I don't see a problem with this setup.
That seems simple enough to me. Or is simplicity something we are trying to avoid?

[Nathan S.]

'm also in favor of implementing the new bid system the commish came up with and improving it as we go. Or developing it over the next year for implementation next off season.

This. If we are going to do this we should implement it next season and perfect it throughout the season. No point in rushing something that may have flaws right away.

[RyanM]

If we are going to do this we should implement it next season and perfect it throughout the season. No point in rushing something that may have flaws right away.

Disagree on this. Any code is going to have flaws and we'll only figure them out by using it. If Troy feels comfortable that he has the time to write & implement this then I don't see why we couldn't start using it this year.

[sportznut]

The last minute thing is a decent idea, but don't forget, one of your league members lives in China. My last minute bids happen because I JUST WOKE UP. FA is killer for me as it is, especially the draft, but rules shouldnt be in place to penalize timing.

What brought you to China, cb?

I have been living here since 2009, I work for an English Education company as their Academic Director for Western Teachers, we have about 110 teachers in 15 cities. It is a great life. I love it.

Very cool.