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So I was talking to CC a couple days ago and I agree with him that the offseason as is now has issues. By reducing the actually time limit to only 30 days, essentially we only get to make one offer and whoever gives the best offer wins. There's no back and forth or anything like that.
So I think there needs to be a major overhaul, but how is the issue.
The easiest way to combat the issue would be that, instead of to sim only the month of February, Sim November-February. The problem is, this would take 3-4 weeks instead of just 1 week, making the offseason last an entire month. I'm personally not in favor of this, especially since we're only talking about a few players and teams that it would actually impact. But maybe that would be the preferred way.
My current proposed suggestion is, the major players (For sake of easiness, anyone over 1 star) get threads created and owners post their contract offers in that thread, and continually one up each other. Have a deadline (Make it a week long like the current offseason is), and whoever has the highest contract at the end wins. 1 star players are handled as they were this past offseason.
This is not without issue though. The problem comes in that people can camp the deadline and then snipe players. This is especially unfair both for and towards the commissioners, since they'd be the ones enforcing the deadline. Some suggestions to try and help that:
1) If an offer is not made within 24 hours of the last offer, no more offers can be made to that player. That will help with continual progression in offers made. This also wouldn't go into effect until a few days in, so that owners can see how the market is playing out (i.e. Offseason starts on Monday, last day sunday. The 24 hour limit starts on something like Thursday-Friday then).
2) If a player is still getting active offers at the deadline, have one final blind offer, sent as a PM to a commish. Whoever has the highest blind offer wins. Since people could still snipe with that, only the top 3 teams with the highest bid at the deadline can summit a blind offer. Ofcoarse people could still snipe to be a top 3 team...yeah, I'm not thinking #2 is gonna be all to useful.
But yeah, if you have any ideas for the above, or any ideas of you own of how to handle it, post up.
So I think there needs to be a major overhaul, but how is the issue.
The easiest way to combat the issue would be that, instead of to sim only the month of February, Sim November-February. The problem is, this would take 3-4 weeks instead of just 1 week, making the offseason last an entire month. I'm personally not in favor of this, especially since we're only talking about a few players and teams that it would actually impact. But maybe that would be the preferred way.
My current proposed suggestion is, the major players (For sake of easiness, anyone over 1 star) get threads created and owners post their contract offers in that thread, and continually one up each other. Have a deadline (Make it a week long like the current offseason is), and whoever has the highest contract at the end wins. 1 star players are handled as they were this past offseason.
This is not without issue though. The problem comes in that people can camp the deadline and then snipe players. This is especially unfair both for and towards the commissioners, since they'd be the ones enforcing the deadline. Some suggestions to try and help that:
1) If an offer is not made within 24 hours of the last offer, no more offers can be made to that player. That will help with continual progression in offers made. This also wouldn't go into effect until a few days in, so that owners can see how the market is playing out (i.e. Offseason starts on Monday, last day sunday. The 24 hour limit starts on something like Thursday-Friday then).
2) If a player is still getting active offers at the deadline, have one final blind offer, sent as a PM to a commish. Whoever has the highest blind offer wins. Since people could still snipe with that, only the top 3 teams with the highest bid at the deadline can summit a blind offer. Ofcoarse people could still snipe to be a top 3 team...yeah, I'm not thinking #2 is gonna be all to useful.
But yeah, if you have any ideas for the above, or any ideas of you own of how to handle it, post up.
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