Post by Rangers GM (Stephen) on Feb 22, 2024 12:31:25 GMT -5
Preamble:
mlbbaseballleague.proboards.com/post/53576/thread
Possible area for improvement:
Free agency grouping
Why this could be considered an area for improvement:
It is arguable that the quality of a free agent group is a more relevant way to prioritise the order in which auctions are held, than purely on positions alone. Knowing which big free agents you have been successful in obtaining earlier in the offseason is helpful for roster construction and future auction strategy.
Possible solution:
Precede our existing positionally-divided free agent groups with multi-positional groups for the highest value players (divided by minimum contract lengths).
Pros of solution:
- Owners can better organise their roster/free agency/cap, without the prospect of finding out only 3 weeks before the season that their main FA target was won by someone else.
- FA super-groups are fun. This year would have seen Acuna and Ohtani and Lindor and Seager and Soto and Snell (to name but a few) all go head-to-head in the same FA group.
- This rule was implemented to address the same topic in the (now defunct) 15 team league from which some of our rule book was taken, and it worked - although admittedly in a smaller and less competitive league. See rule 5.2 here: fantasybaseball.boards.net/thread/4/section-free-agency
- To allow for preparation ahead of a big first FA group, we may want to start FA later in the offseason.
- More FA groups would be required.
Cons of solution:
- Re-ordering FA in this way front-loads most of the free agency excitement to earlier in the offseason.
- With the hottest FAs available in the first FA group, the beginning of each offseason could become an aggressive cap/bad salary-dumping period.
- With the best players gone, later FA groups can be mediocre.
- To achieve full effect, commissioner discretion (which is not used in our contract minimums) may be required to accommodate players who have strayed into the wrong group relative to their 'actual' value.
- To allow for preparation ahead of a big first FA group, we may want to start FA later in the offseason.
- More FA groups would be required.
Notice period for adoption if solution voted in:
Immediate
Further reading for anyone interested from the 15 team league that used this concept:
The pre-2017 FA class: fantasybaseball.boards.net/board/125/group-4-year-minimum
Example of commissioner discretion to amend FA minimum contracts: fantasybaseball.boards.net/thread/2016/2017-fa-contract-minimum-amendments
Example of FA groups: fantasybaseball.boards.net/board/105/2017
mlbbaseballleague.proboards.com/post/53576/thread
Possible area for improvement:
Free agency grouping
Why this could be considered an area for improvement:
It is arguable that the quality of a free agent group is a more relevant way to prioritise the order in which auctions are held, than purely on positions alone. Knowing which big free agents you have been successful in obtaining earlier in the offseason is helpful for roster construction and future auction strategy.
Possible solution:
Precede our existing positionally-divided free agent groups with multi-positional groups for the highest value players (divided by minimum contract lengths).
Pros of solution:
- Owners can better organise their roster/free agency/cap, without the prospect of finding out only 3 weeks before the season that their main FA target was won by someone else.
- FA super-groups are fun. This year would have seen Acuna and Ohtani and Lindor and Seager and Soto and Snell (to name but a few) all go head-to-head in the same FA group.
- This rule was implemented to address the same topic in the (now defunct) 15 team league from which some of our rule book was taken, and it worked - although admittedly in a smaller and less competitive league. See rule 5.2 here: fantasybaseball.boards.net/thread/4/section-free-agency
- To allow for preparation ahead of a big first FA group, we may want to start FA later in the offseason.
- More FA groups would be required.
Cons of solution:
- Re-ordering FA in this way front-loads most of the free agency excitement to earlier in the offseason.
- With the hottest FAs available in the first FA group, the beginning of each offseason could become an aggressive cap/bad salary-dumping period.
- With the best players gone, later FA groups can be mediocre.
- To achieve full effect, commissioner discretion (which is not used in our contract minimums) may be required to accommodate players who have strayed into the wrong group relative to their 'actual' value.
- To allow for preparation ahead of a big first FA group, we may want to start FA later in the offseason.
- More FA groups would be required.
Notice period for adoption if solution voted in:
Immediate
Further reading for anyone interested from the 15 team league that used this concept:
The pre-2017 FA class: fantasybaseball.boards.net/board/125/group-4-year-minimum
Example of commissioner discretion to amend FA minimum contracts: fantasybaseball.boards.net/thread/2016/2017-fa-contract-minimum-amendments
Example of FA groups: fantasybaseball.boards.net/board/105/2017
