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I would propose a slightly different take on it - teams can keep IA players on their roster that still have DSFL eligibility as long as they haven't yet reached the 250 TPE cap.

This rule would maintain emphasis on the developmental aspect, as someone who has reached 250 TPE has basically developed as much as they can in the DSFL. And it would hopefully reduce complaints about competitive advantages since any team that rosters a bunch of IAs in this way isn't keeping an IA superteam of 250 TPE all-stars. It would come with less rules baggage of needing to apply regression and the feel-bad of coming back to your player having less TPE than you remember.

That's a great alternative to my, "impose regression on IA's." Unless maybe we do both? If you have an inactive on your team who's maxed out, you have to cut their TPE from 250 to 150 or something like that? If they then come back, you can shoot it back up to the 250 cap the following season.