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Good stuff, guys. I do agree that it's not a huge incentive overall. I think it's a small change either way. I don't know how long these "dynasty" styles leagues have existed, but I caught on around 2010 and I get the sense that most of you all started around the same time. I fell in love right away and there was a lot of excitement in this community. Over 7 years I've seen a lot of members lose interest, get bored and/or burnt out. There's been no effort to offset this attrition with site wide recruiting (though i know a few guys are trying to step this up now). I think we've been mostly insulated from the broader site issues, but there's no doubt in my mind that the energy here would improve if ProFSL was active, growing and engaged.
I'm fine with it either way -- free league or a money league.Personally I'm skeptical that becoming a money league would itself increase participation and I suspect it'd be a net impediment to filling openings that come up (given that it's more likely the weaker teams that will need filling).One thing that I think could help engagement is to make scouting and speculating on prospects something you can do throughout the year, along the lines of what you can do in many baseball dynasty leagues -- that's actually my favorite part of the baseball dynasty leagues I've been in. Players picked in the most recent NHL draft would still first be reserved for selection in our league draft, but after that any prospect would be fair game for FA bids (prospect contract, then subject to increasing the bids with signing bonuses). Some accompanying changes would probably be needed to make that viable ... some combination of more cap room to create more budget for signing bonuses, contraction to 18 teams (which has the side benefit of making easier to maintain a league full of active owners ... dump the least active ones), increasing the size of minor roster slots, reducing the number of draft keepers from the NHL counterpart team, etc.The increased amount of FA bidding means an increased amount of transaction processing, though -- Rob, if your blood pressure is rising at the thought then forget I even mentioned it.
If I follow correctly this is basically just removing (or reducing) the 40 game threshold before undrafted prospects are eligible for Free Agency?
Haha. This is exactly how we used to do it. We changed the rule 3 years ago in order to keep players in the draft. I do miss pc bidding with signing bonuses, no doubt. But this rule has kept our supplemental draft healthy.