TBT's A.L. Free Agent questions thread.

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***EDIT****  after posting below a few hours ago, I been re-reading some posts on the ARL as we got things started and some of my comments below have been debunked if the statements by bastardo are still correct.

ok since i got a gazzillion questions i will post them all here, so that we can think about all this crap ahead of time and discuss them hopefully before any catastrophies occur.

1.  contract lengths for FA's and guys on our 4 reserve roster spots?  maybe we should make the reserve list players only a 1 yr deal.  like the nfl practice squad possibly.  if you bring a guy up then you can swap out his contract length with whoever your demoting to the reserve list.

however this fucks up the whole FA deal where bastardo had touched upon giving guys deals over X amount of years.

2.  maybe we need to create a FA contract quotient to determine who wins a player in the biddign wars.  maybe something that combines contract lenght and dollar amount.  this would basically eliminate some team owners from trying to bid on guys with thier current cap space.  but this then creates more problems with the contract lenthgs we already have in palce.  i guess then you'd have to dump a guy with a contract of the same amount of years to your reserve list.

***Edit***  bastardo has stated that FA's were only good for 1 year deals, and i assume that is in terms of a guy signed after the draft(right now) or during the season.  sounds good to me, so unless this has changed disregaurd my next statement.  However in a later post he said FA's could be signed to 1-2-3 or 4 year deals, but id assume we should make that for off season activity and not during the season.  uyes, no, maybe?

for instance say i get dale murphy (FA) to a 3 year deal for 6 mil a year.  then i maybe have to send a guy i already have on my team with a 3 year deal to my reserve list.  So that way i only have 4 guys on my tea with 3 year deals. 

So id send Bob horner and his 3 year deal to my reserve list.  then if id like to keep Horner in the line-up then switch him out with a different player on my active list.  But since Horner was originally signed by me to a 3 year deal, i dont think it would be fair to be able to swap his 3 years for a guy with only 2 or so and put that guy on my reserves. 

fucked up things are going on.  i think before any FA period begins, bastardo will need to get our player contract lenghts, and then adress these issues and come upw ith some concrete rules. 

Im way geeked on this GM crap here.  ive already got charts and graphs for my team to keep tabs on what type of moves i will be needing to make in the immediate future.  players to target to keep for the long haul, and who probably expendable.  my life is sad!

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oh and as i think of more crap i'll post more questions, and idea's.

or else we do away with the reserve list all together and when you sign a FA you gotta do so with the 4 different length contract guidlines that are already set in place.

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[Guido13]

Okay, it's obvious we need to iron some things out before the free agent stuff begins, but one thing that is for sure, these are gauranteed contracts, unless you can trade the guy, the salary will count against your cap, you can release a guy (open up a spot on the 20 man roster) but he will still count against the cap unless another team picks him up and assumes the contract.

The Rom will be finished shortly.

[ultimate7]

Everything sounds good, I assume we can freely move guys from Active to Inactive from week to week.

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Everything sounds good, I assume we can freely move guys from Active to Inactive from week to week.

thats cool, but theres the whole thing with the contract lenghts for the reserves/FA that hasnt been adress yet.  my thinking is that if you got a reserve with a 2 year deal, then you probably need to switch him in with an active player with a 2 year deal.

also did i get dale Murphy via free agency bidding?  it been over 2 days and i offered him the highest amount of cash....a winner is me?

[ultimate7]

Everything sounds good, I assume we can freely move guys from Active to Inactive from week to week.

thats cool, but theres the whole thing with the contract lenghts for the reserves/FA that hasnt been adress yet.  my thinking is that if you got a reserve with a 2 year deal, then you probably need to switch him in with an active player with a 2 year deal.

I don't see why, their lenght of contract shouldn't effect what you can do with them during the season, it just determines when you lose rights to said player.

also did i get dale Murphy via free agency bidding?  it been over 2 days and i offered him the highest amount of cash....a winner is me?

I assume so

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what i was getting at was the fact that we need to probably stay with the 4-4yr, 4-3yr 4-2yr, and 4-1yr contracts on the active team.  meaning that if you signed a FA to a 2 year deal then when he's made active you need to swap him out with a another 2 year guy thats on your team. got me?   

bastardo seemed fairly set on this about having guys fit into these contract restraints.  my guess is that your reserves could be 4 guys with 4 year deals or whatever and it wouldnt matter, as long as your 16 active guys were within the guidelines.


does this make any sense?  i hope so.