Tier 1 - Prompt 3
Well, this is a nice prompt. I can write about whatever I like and there are a couple things I've had strong feelings about in this league since I joined in S4. I've had my tirade against position changes in the past, and I still feel like position change should be extremely limited. So S to CB makes sense and vise versa. S to LB is reasonable and vise versa. CB to WR is a yes, as well as LB to DE and DE to DT. Where I struggle, is seeing a max earning DL suddenly become a QB because of a team's poor planning to find a replacement QB. We've seen it so many times. A team is just about to enter regression or rebuild and then their GM DL switches to WR or WB or some max impact position. It hurts pretty much every facet of the league, including Free agency, the trade market, and especially the draft. Every draft, we see max earning QBs drop through the draft because they don't want to change position and the GMs would only see value in them if they switched to a position they need. It's very frustrating. But related to this, we've seen free agency become a circle jerk of taking minimum to join a team with your friends or with league officials who give you the most pull or best chance to win. Look through recent contract negotiations of the top teams in the league like NOLA and OCO. Pinpoint one of their players that's above a minimum contract, even though they boast the best players in the game. A couple of seasons ago, NOLA had the league's commissioner and one of the top RBs in the league take a minimum deal. What kind of example does that set that she's taking minimum because she's already rich. Well it keeps the rich teams richer. OCO had DPoTY Lanzer Grievous on their team making 4 million a year. The most valuable defensive player in the league on the league's best team making roughly 5% of the team's salary. Just to compare, Bobby Wagner is almost making 10% of the team's salary cap. Even this year, arguably the leagues best LB and he's making 4 million a year for the next 3 seasons as he's about to enter 1000 TPE. How is that fair? Good players that put up stats on winning teams deserve and should demand big money. The fact that we have leaders in this league taking minimums and abusing the cap makes it okay for everyone else to do it too.
I don't have a great fix besides creating some algorithm to calculate value based on quantitative data like stats and TPE. Based on that, that should determine your minimum and we scale it to NFL standards. So if Mike Hockhertz, my character, is 3rd in the league in tackles, forces 2 fumbles, grabs a couple picks and sacks and has 800 TPE, that should feed into the algorithm to spit out my fair market value of 5.5 mill over 3 years or something like that. If a 800 TPE LB is the 2nd LB on a team and has 80 tackles, no sacks or picks, the algorithm might spit out 4 million with a max length of 2 years or something like that. I'm just spit balling, but I'm sick of these super teams that take advantage of the original league rules to ensure they are always in the playoffs. Now not to knock the Otters, but I don't think they would be the perennial Ultimus favourites if they pay their MVP QB and DPoTY LB fair money. I don't think the NOLA rebuild from Las Vegas would have been as quick if we didn't have Bovovo's magic recruiting powers grabbing all his buddies on minimums to create NOLA as we know it now. And again, nothing to knock OCO and NOLA, they are the best drafters in the league, but I honestly don't think their reign would last as long as it has with an objective value determiner. People talk about not needing the money so they'll take minimums or playing on teams with their friends. Well sadly, in order to increase league parity, we need to take the value of the contract partially out of the user's hands. If they want to play with their friends, or if they are a great LR presence the team wants to keep around, well they have to manage their cap correctly. Even if their bank account is full to the brim, their player should still get paid for the stats they put up. And if the team can't afford to keep them, then that just increases the free agent market, the trade market, and of course put more effort into drafting and scouting. No going to lie, trades, free agency, and drafting (barring league drama and fights) are some of the most entertaining parts of the season. Why not implement changes to make those parts funner, and more fair instead of keeping around an old system that rewards previous dynasties like NOLA and OCO. ~850 words
Well, this is a nice prompt. I can write about whatever I like and there are a couple things I've had strong feelings about in this league since I joined in S4. I've had my tirade against position changes in the past, and I still feel like position change should be extremely limited. So S to CB makes sense and vise versa. S to LB is reasonable and vise versa. CB to WR is a yes, as well as LB to DE and DE to DT. Where I struggle, is seeing a max earning DL suddenly become a QB because of a team's poor planning to find a replacement QB. We've seen it so many times. A team is just about to enter regression or rebuild and then their GM DL switches to WR or WB or some max impact position. It hurts pretty much every facet of the league, including Free agency, the trade market, and especially the draft. Every draft, we see max earning QBs drop through the draft because they don't want to change position and the GMs would only see value in them if they switched to a position they need. It's very frustrating. But related to this, we've seen free agency become a circle jerk of taking minimum to join a team with your friends or with league officials who give you the most pull or best chance to win. Look through recent contract negotiations of the top teams in the league like NOLA and OCO. Pinpoint one of their players that's above a minimum contract, even though they boast the best players in the game. A couple of seasons ago, NOLA had the league's commissioner and one of the top RBs in the league take a minimum deal. What kind of example does that set that she's taking minimum because she's already rich. Well it keeps the rich teams richer. OCO had DPoTY Lanzer Grievous on their team making 4 million a year. The most valuable defensive player in the league on the league's best team making roughly 5% of the team's salary. Just to compare, Bobby Wagner is almost making 10% of the team's salary cap. Even this year, arguably the leagues best LB and he's making 4 million a year for the next 3 seasons as he's about to enter 1000 TPE. How is that fair? Good players that put up stats on winning teams deserve and should demand big money. The fact that we have leaders in this league taking minimums and abusing the cap makes it okay for everyone else to do it too.
I don't have a great fix besides creating some algorithm to calculate value based on quantitative data like stats and TPE. Based on that, that should determine your minimum and we scale it to NFL standards. So if Mike Hockhertz, my character, is 3rd in the league in tackles, forces 2 fumbles, grabs a couple picks and sacks and has 800 TPE, that should feed into the algorithm to spit out my fair market value of 5.5 mill over 3 years or something like that. If a 800 TPE LB is the 2nd LB on a team and has 80 tackles, no sacks or picks, the algorithm might spit out 4 million with a max length of 2 years or something like that. I'm just spit balling, but I'm sick of these super teams that take advantage of the original league rules to ensure they are always in the playoffs. Now not to knock the Otters, but I don't think they would be the perennial Ultimus favourites if they pay their MVP QB and DPoTY LB fair money. I don't think the NOLA rebuild from Las Vegas would have been as quick if we didn't have Bovovo's magic recruiting powers grabbing all his buddies on minimums to create NOLA as we know it now. And again, nothing to knock OCO and NOLA, they are the best drafters in the league, but I honestly don't think their reign would last as long as it has with an objective value determiner. People talk about not needing the money so they'll take minimums or playing on teams with their friends. Well sadly, in order to increase league parity, we need to take the value of the contract partially out of the user's hands. If they want to play with their friends, or if they are a great LR presence the team wants to keep around, well they have to manage their cap correctly. Even if their bank account is full to the brim, their player should still get paid for the stats they put up. And if the team can't afford to keep them, then that just increases the free agent market, the trade market, and of course put more effort into drafting and scouting. No going to lie, trades, free agency, and drafting (barring league drama and fights) are some of the most entertaining parts of the season. Why not implement changes to make those parts funner, and more fair instead of keeping around an old system that rewards previous dynasties like NOLA and OCO. ~850 words
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