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Hi again,
Since I’m here, let’s revise the cut player salary rule, too.
Currently, the rule is that if you cut a player after the new league year, that player retains his salary through the upcoming season. The goal of this rule is to ensure that an owner doesn’t sign a player to a large salary, wait until after blind bid waivers, cut the large-salary player, and immediately resign that player for $1 during FCFS waivers without offering other owners the opportunity to bid on that player. This shady scheme could potentially save owners tons of cap, so we put the kibash on it.
One negative side effect, however, is that savvy owners are waiting until the new league year to cut players for cap reasons prior to UFA. During UFA, dumbass owners like me are invariably clicking “$1” on a UFA, THEN remembering that a player may not have a $1 salary because they forgot to look on a completely different page and then being irritated by their own dumbassery because there’s no way to undo the mistake – i.e., gameplay is less enjoyable.
RULE CHANGE PROPOSAL 3: players cut before UFA have their salaries return to $1. That way all players actually are at the $1 that myfantasyleague is showing on the bid page. Players cut AFTER UFA retain their salary to prevent the scheming owner scenario described above.
Quick and easy way to improve game mechanics and reduce frustration. And since players cut before/during the UFA process are automatically available for all owners to bid on, the scheming owner routine doesn’t apply, so player salaries are still fair.
Should we move the cap penalty window from June 1st to the start of UFA?
- Yes (100%, 7 Votes)
- No (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 7
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Yeah, this is an easy fix to a frustrating problem. We could still set the league year to June 1st for restructuring contracts and declaring franchise tags, but then have cap penalties roll over after UFA starts.
When will this change take effect–next season?
Yeah, that would be my thinking.
I would OF COURSE suggest that this change would be retroactive to the start of this UFA period! Everyone, especially those named Adam Franssen, would get a mulligan on dumbassery by resetting all the June 1st cuts to $1 and dropping those players from rosters and back into the current UFA so owners could actually start the bidding at $1.
Any thoughts to prohibiting the team that cuts a player from resigning at the $1 salary for that season?
I don’t think it matters, honestly, since everyone gets a crack at that player. For example, if the Lumberjacks had cut Mariota on 5/31 instead of 6/11, then his salary would have gone down to $1. So if we just moved the June 1st date to July 1st (or 8th or whatever) for cap penalty appropriation, then the effect would be the same, we’d just have fewer of those non $1 players to mess with.
Like, I cut some guys before June 1st and their salaries went to $1 but I’m not scrambling to re-sign them in UFA.
Agree with Josh here. The idea is that everyone would have a chance to sign the player in UFA making whatever new salary he earns “market”.
I love this proposal, however in the past I bid on a player in free agency that had an existing salary and got stuck with it so my vote is to start next season just for the simple fact that I wanna take every dumb ass down with me on this sinking ship of dumb assess lol.as they say, misery loves company. Plus I’m sure it saves Josh a bunch of work. (Sucking up so maybe Josh can bail me out of a situation later)
LOL, I think it would only affect Ben and Adam SO FAR but I’m 100% behind the spite behind this.
Ha! It does NOT save Josh a ton of work. I’m fine with being spited, but would prefer not to be spited.
Let’s spite Adam but not me. Deal?