Suggestions

[GridIronKing34]

Greg and I are always up for new ideas for next year's GM League. Now I know a lot of you will be around next year and although some of you may not, we'd love to hear any ideas you have for next year.

Some things we are considering are the following:

Maximum Roster = 53
Minimum Roster = 49

Teams can have 5 man practice squads for no salary cost. Those players must be practice squad eligible and they can be taken off the pracice squad onto another team's active roster.

Teams will forfeit their remaining picks if they miss two consectutive picks. Although a team's draft picks can be reinstated if asked to, they will be eligible to pick for their next upcoming pick.

Free agents can be traded, but cannot be cut. If you trade for a free agent, you may not cut him.

Two moderators (Saint Greg & GridIronKing34) will look over the entire board while a few members (selected by those two moderators) will be head of a certain area. For example, we might have Head of Trades, Head of Free Agency, Head of Draft, Head of Team Pages... We still hope to have a 3-5 man Committee for the draft.

Please, take the time and give us any suggestions. Anything would be valued and appreciated. Thanks.

 

[The Confessor]

Two things.

1. The fact that you are opening up dialouge for next year is a huge testamount to both yourself and Greg. That is always a step in the right direction.
2. The draft idea is huge. Have to speed things up before everybody looses interest.

Thanks for having us again.
az

 

[His'nBeatYour'n]

Random ideas, food for thought. Mostly having to do with determining the winner.

A) Scoring. While they are in no way scientifically accurate, perhaps determine the winner by the Madden point system. I know from my experience last year, it was very difficult reading through 31 team rosters and making a fair evaluation. I had to make my best guess. Create a formula of some kind that doesn't punish teams who start out with too high or low a roster score.

B) Division by division voting for the winner. Take 2 days worth of voting for each division. Then a final poll for the final 8 (one from each division) This would force us to evaluate teams more slowly.

C) Force GM's to give a score to each team for free agency, draft, trades, and overall roster strength. Time consuming for sure, but this would force us to evaluate all the teams, not just agree with who is already in the top 3.

D) Secret ballots. GMs wouldn't have to worry about insulting a buddy by not voting for them. And we would avoid the problem stated above, where people end up just voting among the early front runners.

I think the GM league works fine as is. These are not big complaints, just small suggestions since you are soliciting ideas.

Edit: E) Shorten the draft. By the time we get to the fourth round, teams have either filled their roster, or have become bored. No one is going to win this thing with any "steal" they get in the 7th round. But they do increase their chances of winning my "draft guru" contest.

 

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Couple of ideas

1. Winner

Rather than just vote from all 32 rosters start off by voting for the best in each division with the winners and wildcards advancing to a playoff scenario where other GM's would vote for the "winner" of each game. This IMO would give GM's a smaller ammount of rosters to compare at a time and hopefully make the proccess fairer and simpler.

2. Free agency

I'd allow free agents to be traded as you said but i'd also allow low price free agents to be cut sinc real teams ofter sign "camp bodies" who clearly have liittle chance of making the roster this could be done by allowing $300,000 (or whatever salary is deemed low enough) free agents to be cut but not allow teams to sign marquee free agents and cut them later

Thats all i can think of at the moment

 

[vinlakers22]

I agree with a few things listed.
I think the practice squad is a good idea.
I like the idea of forfeiting draft picks after 2 picks if it is determined that the team is inactive.
Being able to trade free agent signings is also something I would like to see.
I also like the idea of some sort of playoff system based on division winners and wild card teams. I'm not sure how exactly it would work, but I think we could come up with a good system.
I know you guys do a tremendous amount of work to get this league running and keeping it in order, if you need help with anything next year I would be happy to help. Thanks again.

 

[Minnphin]

Some thoughts:

I really like the idea of a playoff system w/ a secret ballot. I just think it'd be a more accurate way of seeing who everybody liked best. A more realistic ranking of teams would result IMO. Do a round of voting a day. It'd only take 4 days.

I don't like the idea of being able to trade signed free agents. While this game is by no means realistic, we for the most part have to follow realistic rules and norms, and I just think this would go against that.

I do like the idea of being able to cut players that were signed for the league minimum. 'Camp bodies' as somebody said earlier. It's not like we're trying to bend the rules by cutting a guy we can't resign for any cheaper anyway.

Forfeiting after two missed picks would be great.

Practice squad would be cool, but not sure that it'd effect anything. It's not like I'm going to look at somebody's practice squad and that be a factor in whether or not I vote for them.

It might be interesting to have some different categories to vote on, as well. Some ideas would be "team on the rise", "biggest improvement", "what were they thinking", "welcome to cap hell, population you". Stuff like that to get more teams recognized. It'd also be cool if we could have somebody come in independently and do power rankings for a share of the accumulated phin dollars. Everybody wants opinions on their teams, and if you don't get any votes, you don't get any opinions.

 

[Saint Greg]

I don't like the idea of being able to trade signed free agents. While this game is by no means realistic, we for the most part have to follow realistic rules and norms, and I just think this would go against that.

I do like the idea of being able to cut players that were signed for the league minimum. 'Camp bodies' as somebody said earlier. It's not like we're trying to bend the rules by cutting a guy we can't resign for any cheaper anyway.

I don't think you have to worry about being able to trade free agents. You are right it is very unrealistic. It did happen with the Saints last year where they signed Michael Bennett, then traded him for a 4th after they drafted Reggie Bush, but that is very rare. The main reason I'm against it is teams will sign players just to use them as trade bait, then they get all their cap money back. I've seen it happen...I don't like it...that's why the rule is out there.

Being able to cut players signed for the league min. is a possibility. The reason for the rule against cutting signed free agents is very similar to the reason for trading signed free agents. Going back about 7-8 years....I was in a bidding war for a starting QB. This guy was the last starter left. The other team bid more than I could afford and won the guy. After I traded for a QB and no longer had a need for one, he cut the guy and signed him back for the league min. I don't like that. But players signed for the league min. is a definite possibility.

 

[NewEra8]

Sup fellas... Just got my internet and everything back here in the army... I know Im too late to join up, but need any help with anything?