Backyard Contraction Discussion

[Anthony]

I love the nitty gritty details and fully agree we don't have to rush anything. But my focus with contraction remains big picture. Do we have a full slate of active participating GM's and /or is it likely that we will moving forward. It's hard not to make the case that we have had empty seats and MIA GM's for the last couple of years now. Over that time we have lost core members, some of which that were foundational to the league. So in a nutshell I'd say contraction let's us consolidate and build from strength. Last, I'm coming at this from a good place and with renewed energy. If I can help by moving to either DET or NYR just PM me.

With you being the best team I don't think switching to those teams helps anything haha, but we do appreciate it. I'm thinking more of the bottom teams (Ducks, Avs, Hurricanes, Wild) so that we don't have as much top tier talent in FA. However I'm not a fan of switching rosters, but if that'll help some of the problems with FA I'm ok with it.

If we do contract, I'd like to open up to a one time mass logo switch for anyone that would want to, give owners a chance to take the logo of their favorite team if it's available.

[jmtrops]

one thing I see here is we are spending a lot of time talking about how to do it but we have not decided to do it or not so I think we should limit the discussion to "is the league better off contracting 2 teams or keeping the 20 teams". once we decide that then we can figure out how to do it if need be.

[jmtrops]

so with to contract or not the one thing I would not want to see is us going through this every couple of years, we contract then expand over and over. do we think after covid that there will be more players wanting in or do we think this is a long term problem?

[Anthony]

so with to contract or not the one thing I would not want to see is us going through this every couple of years, we contract then expand over and over. do we think after covid that there will be more players wanting in or do we think this is a long term problem?

We were having the problem of finding and keeping good members for years before Covid. This will be a permanent change unless theres an overwhelming waitlist.

[jmtrops]

Do not forget to vote. There is a poll underway for the contraction

only vote if you know we can still discuss if your undecided (@Anthony trying out a new feature let us know if it worked)

[Anthony]

only vote if you know we can still discuss if your undecided (@Anthony trying out a new feature let us know if it worked)

It worked!

[winter]

We were having the problem of finding and keeping good members for years before Covid. This will be a permanent change unless theres an overwhelming waitlist.

 

That's the problem, activity. I would rather have a solid core of active, dedicated gm's than just filling a quota. Nobody can predict the future as to what will change, regarding teams and activity. If expansion needs to be addressed in the future, so be it, as with anything else in life.
 

[SlackJack]

That's the problem, activity. I would rather have a solid core of active, dedicated gm's than just filling a quota. Nobody can predict the future as to what will change, regarding teams and activity. If expansion needs to be addressed in the future, so be it, as with anything else in life.

[Drew]

With you being the best team I don't think switching to those teams helps anything haha, but we do appreciate it. I'm thinking more of the bottom teams (Ducks, Avs, Hurricanes, Wild) so that we don't have as much top tier talent in FA. However I'm not a fan of switching rosters, but if that'll help some of the problems with FA I'm ok with it.

If we do contract, I'd like to open up to a one time mass logo switch for anyone that would want to, give owners a chance to take the logo of their favorite team if it's available.

If we are talking possible teams for contraction, I would be against it if the teams were NYR and DET.

I am not meaning to single anyone out but I feel (looking at current rosters) that Carolina and Anaheim would be the 2 most logical teams due to contract. 2 of the bottom 3 teams, some solid players on these rosters but no one that I believe will completely explode the free agent market if we went that route and no game breakers like Draistal or MacKinnon that would be team changing if they were in a reverse draft.

I know this is suppose to be only about whether we would want to do contraction or not but in regards to the max contract in free agency, you could not offer someone a current max contract of $10m for 1 year unless you won it with a bid of $10m. The max cut off contract current is $10m for 5 years or a bid of $50m, its still tough to dish out that amount but some will do that as well.

[jmtrops]

If we are talking possible teams for contraction, I would be against it if the teams were NYR and DET.

I am not meaning to single anyone out but I feel (looking at current rosters) that Carolina and Anaheim would be the 2 most logical teams due to contract. 2 of the bottom 3 teams, some solid players on these rosters but no one that I believe will completely explode the free agent market if we went that route and no game breakers like Draistal or MacKinnon that would be team changing if they were in a reverse draft.

I too thought it best to allow the worst teams to switch but because of trading that has happened especialy with draft picks it gives us a whole new set of problems.