There are some practice squad rules that we just can't track or enforce related to number of games played, etc. and we've tried to have our practice squad eligibility simplified.Another change over the last two years is the eligibility requirements for veteran players. Previously teams could have up to 4 players who had two years of NFL experience. Now teams can have 6 veterans with no limit on the amount of accrued seasons they have in the league.
We've always had it where young players under 4 years experience I believe were eligible, and allowed other teams to sign them (as happens in reality as they aren't active roster with any team) but give our home teams a week to notice that alert and match the contract or not.
As some of the practice squad last year could be veteran players with no limit on years experience, we could look at further simplifying to just make it so every player in the league was practice squad eligible. Might be a little different with lots of veterans on practice squads and the matching element, but lots of veterans on NFL practice squads now.
We discussed last year and will work to make it easier to do a quick 1-year minimum contract signing off the practice squad for teams when last minute injuries or other situations hit, so long as no other teams have bids on signing that player.
I'll be looking into how difficult it would be to make things more like the NFL's version of 2 players being able to be active roster players for game day without salaries impacting the salary cap. In recent years we just had teams sign 55 active roster guys but only 53 count, but will re-examine that a bit to see the best way to do it in our team management tools.
If you have any other practice squad thoughts, you can reply with those here as we look into slight adjustments there possibly this season.
