Post by Buffalo Bats on Feb 12, 2016 14:18:56 GMT -7
--How Free Agency Will Start--
To make things as organized and manageable as possible, there will only be 6 players who are open for negotiations at any one time (if part way through free agency it becomes clear that 6 is either too many or too few players, we can change the number). We will put teams in random order, and on their turn, teams will have the chance to nominate a player to be open for negotiations by making that player a contract offer. Once a player has agreed to a contract with a team (I’ll go over this) the next team in line can open up negotiations for a player of their choice, always keeping 6 players open for negotiations at a time. If it is not clear, once a player is up for negotiations, ANY team can make him a contract offer, not just the team who originally began negotiations with him.
--Negotiating with Players--
If a player has been opened for negotiations, he remains a Free Agent for a minimum of 24 hours. If a player ever goes more than 24 hours without receiving a better offer than the one he currently has, he officially signs with the team that made the offer.
Simple example:
Bawseton Red Sox offers Narmar Garciappara:
2 years $12,000,000 $14,000,000
24 hours passes and nobody beats Bawse’s offer, so Nomar officially accepts the contract.
Other example:
Cobb County Braves opens up negotiations with Chipper Jones by offering him:
3 year contract $7,000,000 $9,000,000 $11,000,000
The offer comes in at 2 PM ET on Monday
At 9 PM ET on Monday Biogenesis offers Chipper:
4 year contract: $8,000,000 $10,000,000 $12,000,000 $14,000,000
9 PM ET on Tuesday comes and there are no new offers for Chipper, so he officially signs with Bio.
--What offer is best?--
One of the challenges of Free Agency might be deciding which offer a player has receieved is the best one. We came up with some formulas and different ideas for judging this, but after thinking about it a lot, I think with most players it will be pretty obvious what their best offer is, and if it is not obvious, we will all have to come to a consensus. This is one of those things where we will only find out exactly how it’s going to work out once we actually get going.
Here are a couple things to keep in mind when offering contracts…
Total Money in the deal matters, and money per year also matters.
As a rule, if you are offering a deal to “beat” the current offer that the player has, it will be your job to explain why it is a better offer if it isn’t readily apparent.
We could discuss this for a long time and come up with all sorts of questions and potential problems, but I think if we are all trying to make legitimate offers to players, and trying to make Free Agency work, then things will run pretty smoothly and a lot of the anticipated problems may not occur at all.
--Not Being d’bags--
Free Agency will work well if everyone is operating with the same goal in mind, which is to make this the most fun and realistic league possible. Everyone wants to win the league, but I think we all can agree that the most fun part of the ‘Merican League is the feel of actually operating a baseball team, which you don’t get in other fantasy leagues.
With all of that in mind, lets not be d’bags during Free Agency. Let’s try and make things realistic.
When making an initial offer to a player, obviously you want to make a good deal for yourself, but lets not waste everyones time by opening up negotiations like this…
Trappers offers Mike Trout 5 years $1,000,000 $3,000,000 $5,000,000 $7,000,000 $9,000,000
Cobb County beats Trappers offer and offers 5 years $2,000,000 $4,000,000 $6,000,000 $8,000,000 $10,000,000
Etc etc until Mike Trout gets up to $40 mil+
--Things to keep in mind during Free Agency…
Make legitimate offers to players. Looking for a good deal is fine, and to be expected, but if we all know a player is ending up with a big contract, lets not waste all our time slowly bidding him up, lets treat it like a real Free Agency, with legit offers.
Don’t “bid up” players that you don’t want just to make it a worse deal for others involved.
Don’t wait til the last minute to make offers to players if you already know you are going to make an offer to them. This isn’t Ebay, each time you offer a player a deal he remains open for negotiations, so waiting til the last minute to offer him something holds no strategy, and will make Free Agency frustrating for everyone.
--This will be Fuunnnnn--
I promise this will all be really fun if everyone is engaged and trying to make things realistic. This league is already the funnest league I’ve been a part of, and I think once Free Agency kicks in it will really take things to the next level and become the most realistic and fun fantasy league in existence. Thanks everyone for making the league tons of fun!!
To make things as organized and manageable as possible, there will only be 6 players who are open for negotiations at any one time (if part way through free agency it becomes clear that 6 is either too many or too few players, we can change the number). We will put teams in random order, and on their turn, teams will have the chance to nominate a player to be open for negotiations by making that player a contract offer. Once a player has agreed to a contract with a team (I’ll go over this) the next team in line can open up negotiations for a player of their choice, always keeping 6 players open for negotiations at a time. If it is not clear, once a player is up for negotiations, ANY team can make him a contract offer, not just the team who originally began negotiations with him.
--Negotiating with Players--
If a player has been opened for negotiations, he remains a Free Agent for a minimum of 24 hours. If a player ever goes more than 24 hours without receiving a better offer than the one he currently has, he officially signs with the team that made the offer.
Simple example:
Bawseton Red Sox offers Narmar Garciappara:
2 years $12,000,000 $14,000,000
24 hours passes and nobody beats Bawse’s offer, so Nomar officially accepts the contract.
Other example:
Cobb County Braves opens up negotiations with Chipper Jones by offering him:
3 year contract $7,000,000 $9,000,000 $11,000,000
The offer comes in at 2 PM ET on Monday
At 9 PM ET on Monday Biogenesis offers Chipper:
4 year contract: $8,000,000 $10,000,000 $12,000,000 $14,000,000
9 PM ET on Tuesday comes and there are no new offers for Chipper, so he officially signs with Bio.
--What offer is best?--
One of the challenges of Free Agency might be deciding which offer a player has receieved is the best one. We came up with some formulas and different ideas for judging this, but after thinking about it a lot, I think with most players it will be pretty obvious what their best offer is, and if it is not obvious, we will all have to come to a consensus. This is one of those things where we will only find out exactly how it’s going to work out once we actually get going.
Here are a couple things to keep in mind when offering contracts…
Total Money in the deal matters, and money per year also matters.
As a rule, if you are offering a deal to “beat” the current offer that the player has, it will be your job to explain why it is a better offer if it isn’t readily apparent.
We could discuss this for a long time and come up with all sorts of questions and potential problems, but I think if we are all trying to make legitimate offers to players, and trying to make Free Agency work, then things will run pretty smoothly and a lot of the anticipated problems may not occur at all.
--Not Being d’bags--
Free Agency will work well if everyone is operating with the same goal in mind, which is to make this the most fun and realistic league possible. Everyone wants to win the league, but I think we all can agree that the most fun part of the ‘Merican League is the feel of actually operating a baseball team, which you don’t get in other fantasy leagues.
With all of that in mind, lets not be d’bags during Free Agency. Let’s try and make things realistic.
When making an initial offer to a player, obviously you want to make a good deal for yourself, but lets not waste everyones time by opening up negotiations like this…
Trappers offers Mike Trout 5 years $1,000,000 $3,000,000 $5,000,000 $7,000,000 $9,000,000
Cobb County beats Trappers offer and offers 5 years $2,000,000 $4,000,000 $6,000,000 $8,000,000 $10,000,000
Etc etc until Mike Trout gets up to $40 mil+
--Things to keep in mind during Free Agency…
Make legitimate offers to players. Looking for a good deal is fine, and to be expected, but if we all know a player is ending up with a big contract, lets not waste all our time slowly bidding him up, lets treat it like a real Free Agency, with legit offers.
Don’t “bid up” players that you don’t want just to make it a worse deal for others involved.
Don’t wait til the last minute to make offers to players if you already know you are going to make an offer to them. This isn’t Ebay, each time you offer a player a deal he remains open for negotiations, so waiting til the last minute to offer him something holds no strategy, and will make Free Agency frustrating for everyone.
--This will be Fuunnnnn--
I promise this will all be really fun if everyone is engaged and trying to make things realistic. This league is already the funnest league I’ve been a part of, and I think once Free Agency kicks in it will really take things to the next level and become the most realistic and fun fantasy league in existence. Thanks everyone for making the league tons of fun!!
