PNFL

Ok I like to have a special week of Free Agency for the players cut to get down to 53 and the retired players that don't unretire.

1. The player will be auto-unretired and anti-aged if signed.
2. Contract is a 1 year contract min bid is 5 points
3. If a player can only be bid on in this if he is age 21 or less.(this could be adjusted but I think points and Salary might make this not an issue)
4. If the last bid is submitted within 24 hours of this free Agency Period ending. Teams submit a secret final bid to Rich highest bid gets him.(Last high bid is default submission of that team)

What this could do
1.I believe this could cause bidding wars for players that are in high demand. This could help decrease teams point sock piles.
2.It also prevents owner from force retiring a player so other teams can't get him.
3. Allow big name players to hit the Free agent market with season contracts.
4. Give superstars a little longer careers than non-superstars.
5. Allow low cap teams to rent great players for a season without it hurting their long term cap.

The way it works look is take CB Dee Miller retires and he doesn't unretires.
He would be allowed to be bid on by all teams starting at 6 points.
Teams could bid on him like normal driving up the market.
Say the free agency period ends on Jan 31 at 11:59PM

Detroit and Atlanta bid up a storm all week. Detroit submits a 12 point bid Jan 31 at 12:30AM.
this means teams would have until Feb 1 11:59 to email a secret bid on Dee Miller

Detroit submits 15
Atlanta submits 16
San Fran submits 20 (even though San Fran never submitted a bid.)

San Fran would get the player.

If every teams submitted the same but Detroit didn't submit or submitted less than 12. The bids would be as following
Detroit submits 12 or less or forgets to mail in a bid. Detroit's bid is 12
Atlanta submits 16
San Fran submits 20

Player still goes to San Fran.

Justin-Chicago wrote:If anybody likes Dee Milliner this much, I'm open to offers...

Lol not going to happen which is surprising with Dean and me in the league to push trading.

I like this proposal but think it would have unintended consequences, we would be negating retirements along with the measures we have in place to mitigate it already, which then makes certain players like a Ghost that never retires and keeps coming back. We would essentially nullify retiring.

I do think it would help the FA market though if a small percentage of the top tier retirees (3-5 players) could be brought back if a team decides that they do not want to resign them, spend points to anti-age and protect them.

I like the idea of making the players we cut to get to 53 available to other teams before the Start New Season button, but the acquisition process has to be simple for Rich to execute. I think if we run it like a waiver wire instead., it might be quicker and less painful for him. If we all send in lists for players and he runs a behind the scenes list draft from worst to best team, it would go a lot faster than a bidding process.

To avoid the hassle of messing with rosters before the Start New Season button is pressed, he would move these 'saved' players automatically to your roster after he presses the button (let's you go over 53). But there is a potential cost too. The cost is that you are automatically charged 3 points for any player you get that needed anti-aging. This might at least discourage some coaches from saving older vets from retirement.