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Dan brought this up a while back, and I was one of them who turned his idea down. I thought about it again and it deserves some credence, and would another exciting element to our game.Here is my proposal for 2011...Buffer Funding for Playoff RunsAs of July 1st, if a team is within the top 50% of teams (tiebreakers included) in the standings then they are awarded a buffer fund. The buffer fund is equal to 20% of their salary cap, but no more than $20m. Teams may use this money only for FA and traded players that will help them win that year. To enforce this notion, such teams will not be allowed to trade away, nor release, any player that would be a Type A or Type B free agent if they were in FA the following winter. These are players in the top 40% current production at their position during the year.Teams that do not wish to use such funding, and are considering themselves to be sellers, must forfeit the right to use such monies as of July 1st.
I think it's a valid suggestion, but I'm worried about the repercussions... the singly most common problem leagues will have is with heavily lopsided long-term vs short-term dump trades - we already see that, but it's at a healthy level so far. I anticipate we'll see it ratchet up a notch as teams gear up for the playoffs, and this kind of rule would probably magnify that... do we want to?