Holistically, the league runs well and is much fun. However there are still areas that can be improved for maximum satisfaction and fun. The two most prominent are Free Agency and end of season awards.
Firstly, Free Agency is known to be quite a boring affair, it what should really be one of the most interesting parts off the season. As of now, it is completely dwarfed by the draft, with only 2-3 players really getting any sort of buzz around their future and probably too often, does the player just return to their team due to the way money is in the league. With such strict tampering rules with a short FA window, teams don’t have much time to work out who they might sign, who they can afford to let go whilst figuring out their draft needs. By changing the FA window opening to either the trade deadline or end of the regular season, it increases time for teams and players alike to maximise their free agency period. Introducing a better way to denote who are the FA players and when they decide on their future, a clearer way of seeing where players have landed, will also get more people to look into the process and generate more league-wide buzz. As of now, most of it comes from players making media pieces about their future team but if we introduce something small like an article that FA players then respond to when they agree to join a team, will make it easier not only for teams to keep track of the players available, but for the other users to see what is happening in real time.
Secondly, the awards at the end of the season, whilst beloved, is in some dire needs of changes due to the large amount of criticism it gets when it comes around each season. Making a few tweaks into the process of nominations and award recipients, will therefore make this process quicker, smoother and less contentious and it shifts to being a bit more objective than subjective. Introducing a system to weight stats, like how fantasy points are earned, tailored to each position in order to find the 5 nominations for each award will help boost objectivity. In order to find the right formula and weighting of each stat, I think looking back at the stat lines of around the past 5 award winners to compare among one another, should give a good baseline as to what was expected of an award winner. This eliminates needing people to vote on nominees, a process that is apparently not well liked and taken very seriously from the amounts of talk about it during award season. This also frees up more time for the awards committee to make their choices since the nominees are streamlined and more discussion between fewer players can benefit in a larger consensus decision.
Firstly, Free Agency is known to be quite a boring affair, it what should really be one of the most interesting parts off the season. As of now, it is completely dwarfed by the draft, with only 2-3 players really getting any sort of buzz around their future and probably too often, does the player just return to their team due to the way money is in the league. With such strict tampering rules with a short FA window, teams don’t have much time to work out who they might sign, who they can afford to let go whilst figuring out their draft needs. By changing the FA window opening to either the trade deadline or end of the regular season, it increases time for teams and players alike to maximise their free agency period. Introducing a better way to denote who are the FA players and when they decide on their future, a clearer way of seeing where players have landed, will also get more people to look into the process and generate more league-wide buzz. As of now, most of it comes from players making media pieces about their future team but if we introduce something small like an article that FA players then respond to when they agree to join a team, will make it easier not only for teams to keep track of the players available, but for the other users to see what is happening in real time.
Secondly, the awards at the end of the season, whilst beloved, is in some dire needs of changes due to the large amount of criticism it gets when it comes around each season. Making a few tweaks into the process of nominations and award recipients, will therefore make this process quicker, smoother and less contentious and it shifts to being a bit more objective than subjective. Introducing a system to weight stats, like how fantasy points are earned, tailored to each position in order to find the 5 nominations for each award will help boost objectivity. In order to find the right formula and weighting of each stat, I think looking back at the stat lines of around the past 5 award winners to compare among one another, should give a good baseline as to what was expected of an award winner. This eliminates needing people to vote on nominees, a process that is apparently not well liked and taken very seriously from the amounts of talk about it during award season. This also frees up more time for the awards committee to make their choices since the nominees are streamlined and more discussion between fewer players can benefit in a larger consensus decision.
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