Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2020 9:30:35 GMT -5
This will be for applying a 15% hometown discount to your RFA players. If you own a player who has been RFA tagged then you will be eligible for this discount....
For example if a player gets an offer of
Ryne Sandberg 3yrs $30m at $10 per year
After Discount
Ryne Sandberg 3yrs $26.5m - $8.83 per year - Or restructured how you like according to rules
If player is not kept then the winning team gets the player at his original contract offered with NO discount
This is needed because some teams will apply outside forces to our market. Our league creates its own market and anything to do with real life contracts offered by MLB has nothing to do with the market in here. It is created by the 20 teams who are a part of this league. Teams have also been known to bid on players for no other reason that to "keep them honest". That does nothing but skew the market in here. They do not want the player but they also do not want another team to get a good deal. If a team does get a good deal on a player then the market has been set, but if you bid the way of "keeping them honest," you have then skewed the market.
RFA is supposed to be designed to help the original team keep the player but instead it seems to have been treated like a candy story where some go crazy and bid insane amounts creating bad contracts and essentially making some players almost untradeable. Now a team can bid higher to try and win the player and counter the hometown discount but then the bidding team runs the risk of being stuck with an insane contract.
This is not a huge discount but I firmly believe this is for the benefit of the entire league and needs to be done as RFA should not be something that is feared. Yes you should pay more for a player depending on what "our market" says but we also need to protect teams from crippling contracts. Especially when they may have been given a crippling contract for not other reason than to cripple them. The team does have the choice not to keep that crippling contract. However if the team winning the contract is a new or newer owner then who says they will not leave after they have crippled their team and then the next owner just uses their amnesty drop on that player.
My aim here is to have teams bid more legitimate contacts for players they want. It is to protect those players with RFA players which is everyone one of us year in an year out. We do not have a luxury tax in here and if a player has an insane contract in real life then a team should not fear using an RFA tag instead of a FT.
Again this is something that needs to happen but I want to hear your thoughts. Over bidding ruins the fun in RFA and that is one thing I hear year in and year out. I truly believe this is beneficial to our league.
For example if a player gets an offer of
Ryne Sandberg 3yrs $30m at $10 per year
After Discount
Ryne Sandberg 3yrs $26.5m - $8.83 per year - Or restructured how you like according to rules
If player is not kept then the winning team gets the player at his original contract offered with NO discount
This is needed because some teams will apply outside forces to our market. Our league creates its own market and anything to do with real life contracts offered by MLB has nothing to do with the market in here. It is created by the 20 teams who are a part of this league. Teams have also been known to bid on players for no other reason that to "keep them honest". That does nothing but skew the market in here. They do not want the player but they also do not want another team to get a good deal. If a team does get a good deal on a player then the market has been set, but if you bid the way of "keeping them honest," you have then skewed the market.
RFA is supposed to be designed to help the original team keep the player but instead it seems to have been treated like a candy story where some go crazy and bid insane amounts creating bad contracts and essentially making some players almost untradeable. Now a team can bid higher to try and win the player and counter the hometown discount but then the bidding team runs the risk of being stuck with an insane contract.
This is not a huge discount but I firmly believe this is for the benefit of the entire league and needs to be done as RFA should not be something that is feared. Yes you should pay more for a player depending on what "our market" says but we also need to protect teams from crippling contracts. Especially when they may have been given a crippling contract for not other reason than to cripple them. The team does have the choice not to keep that crippling contract. However if the team winning the contract is a new or newer owner then who says they will not leave after they have crippled their team and then the next owner just uses their amnesty drop on that player.
My aim here is to have teams bid more legitimate contacts for players they want. It is to protect those players with RFA players which is everyone one of us year in an year out. We do not have a luxury tax in here and if a player has an insane contract in real life then a team should not fear using an RFA tag instead of a FT.
Again this is something that needs to happen but I want to hear your thoughts. Over bidding ruins the fun in RFA and that is one thing I hear year in and year out. I truly believe this is beneficial to our league.
