Since we have already made decisions on FAs for this offseason, I can't see this happening until the 2018 FYPD or next season's FA class.
I wholeheartedly disagree that we need to delay this change because "...we have already made decisions on FAs for this offseason." Let's be real here. Nobody made any sort of free agent decisions on the basis of whether they were giving up a Type A or Type B free agent. If anything, decisions were made on the basis of economics pertaining to available cap space. But more than that, we have to really take a good hard look at our league and realize that it has been it hard by the exodus to DynastysportsHQ--AKA Corey's new site.
Let's not kid ourselves, free agent decisions were not a high priority throughout the entire league. I grant you that a few veterans gave it some thought, but I don't think how many draft picks they were going to get entered into the equation. When we look at the massive amount of turnover we've had and the neglect teams have endured from absentee owners, we can get a better understanding why we can't justify a delay based on "free agent decisions".
I'm not trying to disrespect my Co-Commish, however, let me give a brief State of the League to illustrate my counter view.
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- OUDAN was a longtime owner, yet he became less involved after his championship season. He is quite invested in DynastysportsHQ and finally resigned and left ProFSL late in the season. We found a replacement for him, Draft Legends, and he seemed to have great enthusiasm. Yet once he found out he didn't make the playoffs, he announced he was quitting after just a short stint as a
GM. We now have a long-term replacement in Ginstwin, but even though the
had some productive players on expiring contracts, they became free agents out of neglect. The Compensation Rule was not a factor in whether those players became free agents.
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- VolsRaysBucs, like OUDAN, is invested in DynastysportsHQ and announced he would not be returning as a member of FGM late in the season. His team was open until just recently when bur.base.ball took over as the GM. During that lapse of ownership, there was no one to make any free agent decisions, so again, regardless of the rule, neglect was the overriding factor.
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- MillerTime was a longtime member and developed a very competive team. He too announced his retirement from the league and he was replaced by brandonj2262. Again, there was no conscious decisions regarding free agency because MillerTime was leaving and brandonj2262 came in after the extension deadline.
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- fantasyboi vanished after the waiver trading period. He deleted his FGM Fantrax membership and seems to have left ProFSL altogether. Rsmetana has agreed to replace him, but here again, no one was around to make any decisions on expiring contracts.
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- Dan Wood, an original member of FGM, finished as the runner-up in this year's World Series. He had several productive players on expiring contracts, but he resigned at the end of the season, and again, did not make any sort of conscious effort in regards to compensation for players going into free agency. He too has fled to DynastysportsHQ, which, like the others, is his choice, but to say he thought about Type A or Type B compensation for lost free agents is simply not reality.
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owners are about to be replaced because neither of them have logged onto the site since late September and have not responded to my PMs regarding their continued membership. Both of them are veterans and although Daniel signed a couple of his players to extensions, when he found out Derek Dietrich was more costly than he thought, he got upset and has since vanished.
With all this, we have a variety of first year owners. Like most newbies, they are still learning the ropes, and I'm sure if you asked them, they're still trying to figure out a variety of the rules and did not make free agent decsions based on Type A or Type B compensation. I could be wrong, but I remember my first few seasons in FGM, I didn't post anything because I wasn't really sure what was going on. Not an insult, just a stark reality.
Without getting too carried away and alienating anyone, what's my agenda here? I hope you know it's to make FGM a league that is strong and appealing. FGM has been insulted time and again with the "dinosaur" label and I believe that since Rick and I took over, we have tried to make the league more stable and long-lasting. We improved the Trade Process, revised and clarified the Rule Book, instituted an MiLB roster that is working leaguewide, and have sought to make sure that we deal with every issue as it arises by making ourselves available.
But let's not drag our feet and perpetuate a problem we have a solution for. We need to do all we can to make FGM a league on the cutting edge. I have seen it happen many times in the past where we say we'll deal with something in the future and then nothing is done. We did it last year with this very issue, and now there's a call to delay it until 2018. Problems don't go away through avoidance, they go away when we fix them.
We don't need to wait until 2018 to do this, we can do it now, but only if more members speak up and offer their insights. If most of you believe everything is okay as is and no change is needed, then please speak up. If you agree with the proposed changes, then please let the league know. This is not my league or Rick's league, it is your league so we really need your feedback.