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Post by Tampa Bay Lightning on Mar 11, 2015 19:09:32 GMT -5
That will lead to a ton of 5-year deals, especially for older players, and fewer players in FA each year. Did you not read my first post? Staff can decide at the beginning of the auction how many years the player wants, so if it's a 39 y/o player at the end of his career, staff can go "player will only accept 1 year deal", and only 1 year deals will be accepted Edit: a 48 hour window sounds good to me Edit 2: a limited number of winning bids at the same times sounds like reasonable, but I almost want to see a team accidentally win out on more free agents then should, creating cap hell. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2015 19:36:04 GMT -5
That will lead to a ton of 5-year deals, especially for older players, and fewer players in FA each year. The max is four years. The five years is only for UFAs signing with their own team before free agency market.. like in the NHL with the 7/8 years. EDIT: I would remove the fifth year option for any UFA as soon as free agency market is open. Level the playing field for everyone. Prevents someone like me, for example, coming in with an superior offer for Ryan Kesler that beats any money, plus the extra year. |
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Post by Tampa Bay Lightning on Mar 11, 2015 19:43:38 GMT -5
That will lead to a ton of 5-year deals, especially for older players, and fewer players in FA each year. The max is four years. The five years is only for UFAs signing with their own team before free agency market.. like in the NHL with the 7/8 years. EDIT: I would remove the fifth year option for any UFA as soon as free agency market is open. Level the playing field for everyone. Prevents someone like me, for example, coming in with an superior offer for Ryan Kesler that beats any money, plus the extra year. Plus, like i just said, staff dictates number of years IN THE BEGINNING of the auction, so say for a guy like um... Mats Sundin for example, staff can automatically go he will accept only a 1 year deal, then he goes home for soup |
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Post by Toronto Maple Leafs on Mar 11, 2015 19:47:56 GMT -5
I really feel like this will make the league more fun. Everybody wins from this. Obviously the specifics of it need to be hammered out, but it seems like the majority is on board with this. I'd like the admin to put this to a league wide poll and see it go through for this summer! We can't be afraid of change here, especially a change that should realistically make things more fun, more fair, and easier for everyone.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2015 19:48:16 GMT -5
Yeah, I know. For some free agents. There would be a good number of free agents that would seek a long-term deal, though.
Personally, I really like this idea. It would also allow the staff members to be more involved in the bidding process. A lot less work for us trying to debate offers and so forth.
In fact, I think this would work really well combined with Wolf's concept. I would phase it in.. test this out first.. and maybe revisit Wolf's proposal later on.
I would insist on people actually having the cap space to make the offer. In the NHL, you can go 10% above the cap in the off-season. We check the numbers for each team, and if it turns out you don't have the cap space, your offer is void.
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Post by Tampa Bay Lightning on Mar 11, 2015 20:00:10 GMT -5
Yeah, I know. For some free agents. There would be a good number of free agents that would seek a long-term deal, though. yes, that would be true, a 29 y/o guy coming into his prime would demand a long term deal, and that would be dictated by the staff Really good suggestion, if your team doesn't have the cap space, your offer is void. That should avoid stupidity on people's part. |
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Post by Philadelphia Flyers on Mar 11, 2015 20:48:17 GMT -5
We could implement a 10% loyalty discount offer for your own UFAs to help maintain GMs to have some kind of control over their pending free agent. For example,
Say Kesler goes to UFA from Columbus
I offer Kesler a 4 year deal @ 5,000,000 per season = 20,000,000 total
Columbus has the authority to offer the same deal at a 10% discount if he wants, making his offer a 4 year deal @ 4,500,000 per season which = 18,000,000 total, and Kesler would sign with Columbus. That is if his bid lasts the set amount of time.
I think this could help balance the fairness of the league, and gives those GMs a little edge over their own UFA's that they lose to free agency.
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Post by Buffalo Sabres on Mar 11, 2015 21:19:19 GMT -5
I'm not even sure a vote will be necessary.
Fantastic insight from everyone. So many great ideas and i think most loopholes are covered.
We need to keep this thread active for a few more days then i think we as a staff need to take all this info put it together and discuss what rules we need to implement to make this fully suceed.
Really excited to see this in place this summer in some form
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Post by Chicago Blackhawks on Mar 11, 2015 21:22:47 GMT -5
You outbid me, I was the ginger gentleman, although I'm not sure I'd classify myself as a gentleman haha
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Post by Andre Deblois on Mar 11, 2015 21:27:57 GMT -5
If anyone is in another league in which a system similar to this one is in place, I'd like to get in touch with whomever (staff or otherwise) oversees the process in those leagues, see if we can get any best practices, or tips on how to implement a similar system here. Please send me a PM with a way to get in contact (preferably an email) with them.
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