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Old 08-22-2012, 04:37 PM   #43
Buane
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Originally Posted by SandMan View Post
What is determining what the league feels is reasonable? You could then low-ball every FA using the argument that the league feels is reasonable. Again it is the supply and demand theory. More money available = More money the FA wants, even if they are not worth it. What you are asking for could blow up in your face with all the GMs not offering legitimate contracts knowing that the player will accept some offer, not necessarily a reasonable contract.
That's not how the free market works at all. A player is worth what the other GMs will pay him. If, in the new theoretical system, a GM is making lowball offers, he'll be outbid by his fellow GMs until the price for the player reaches the representation of the market.

And to make sure the other GMs have time to do that, I already said it's probably a good idea that if your offer is really that far off the player's demand, the longer the player will wait before he agrees to it.
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