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Originally Posted by cockypop
Totally understandable. Things got kind of nasty there for some reason.
This thread in a nutshell...
1. Online league has concerns that free agent demands seem to be out of whack with expected values, based on comparisons to equivalent players.
2. Comissioner of said league posts concerns and offers some possible solutions for discussion, one of which include ability to edit free agent demands.
3. Some helpful discussion occurs, including explanation of how excess cash on hand is a major factor in demands being made. Great, we're making progress. (I certainly learned something.)
4. Eventually one of the possible solutions that was originally proposed in the first post (option B... keep offers on the table even if they had been previously rejected) is logged as a feature request on the beta boards. Mission accomplished.
In between those points and scattered throughout 9 pages and counting is a lot of posturing, insults, some crazy misunderstanding that the league wants collusion (I'm in the league, I can asure you that's not what we want) and people like The Wolf trying desperately to get the last word in and 'win' a non existent argument.
If more discussion is required around how free agency works, then great I for one hope to learn more about this amazing game. But for the love of god can we please drop this silly collusion meme. It's just not true.
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OK, thanks for the explanation. I think my confusion is in the complaint over the perceived "outrageous" free agent demands. I only play solo, so I don't know how those affect an online league like it does for you guys. It was just that the way some posts were written, it came across as asking for collusion. I may have missed it, but I never read anything that said something to this extent: "Superstar outfielders currently make in the range of $10-14M per season. Player X is a superstar outfielder and is a free agent asking for $22M per season. Why can't we edit his demand to more closely reflect the salary range of comparable players?"
If that accurately portrays what your league wants, then I can't disagree with the request. But I also feel that if players like this are eventually signing in the proper salary range ($10-14M in this example), then a simpler solution would be to have offers remain on the table. Or, I personally like this more, have the option to tell a player that your offer remains on the table when he rejects it. If you don't do this, then the offer goes away. It would be a similar button to the one we get in an e-mail when we get a trade proposal. This way the GM makes a conscious decision to leave the offer on the table, rather than forgetting that the offer remains out there and moving on to a second player, eventually signing that second player, then all of a sudden finding out the first player signed, as well.