Sunday, September 12, 2010

Compensatory Picks for Restricted Free Agents

  • Any team that loses a restricted free agent to a different team on Bidding Day would receive a compensatory “4th” round selection in the following Future Prospect Draft.  Note: this option would provide the owner that has the right to match an option to not match and receive an extra pick as compensation.
    • Question: should this also count for RFA’s that are signed during the post-Bidding day Free Agent Frenzy?
  • Where there is more than 1 RFA / Compensatory Pick in a given draft, the draft picks will be ranked based on the RFA’s new salary
    • Question: in the event of a tie in salaries, would the order that the RFA’s were signed in act as a good tie breaker?

7 comments:

  1. Awesome idea - I wish that I thought of it.

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  2. Love he idea of the compensatory 4rth pick.

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  3. Like this idea.
    Don't think the 4th pick should be tradeable once alotted to a team, but the rights to it attached to the player should be.

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  4. Had a slight change of opinion on this. Still like the idea, but couldn't think of why the 4th shouldn't be tradeable once alotted.

    However another thought came to my mind. A team may lose several RFAs in a year. Should they receive a 4th round pick for each reagrdless? Or do we cap it at 1 or 2? While I somewhat have issue with a team getting 3 or 4 or more extras picks, it is compensation for a player loss, and they are picking from what is left. Also I hope this might stimulate trading a bit of RFAs, if they have a guaranteed 4th attached.

    Also to cover the other issues in Dave's post for this. I don't think this right to a 4th should survive past bid-day. If the RFA wasn't valued enough to sign on bid day, then he's not valuable enough to warrant compensation.
    Ranking the 4th by order of $ signing sounds ok, though team standings in the year before the pick still might be the most impartial.

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  5. My 2cents:
    I think a compensatory pick for a lost RFA is a great idea.

    I propose it works like this:
    - Future Prospect Draft occurs
    - Bidding Day happens
    - For each RFA where the team chooses not to match a compensatory draft pick is awarded.
    - Bidding Day ends; any remaining RFA's that are signed WILL NOT result in a compensatory pick
    - Compensatory FP draft begins as soon as Bidding Day is complete
    - Teams will draft in an order determined by the contract value of the signed RFA (Highest to lowest)
    - The draft will be completed electronically (method to be determined (Blogger / Email)
    - Teams will have 1 day to make their selection (hopefully it is much much faster than this)
    - Any team that takes more than 24 hours to make their selection forfeits their draft position and goes to the end of the line

    Compensatory draft picks are not tradeable, however players that are eventually selected are tradeable.

    I realize with this method that the draft could take days to complete, however what this does is make the management of these types of picks much easier. I don't have to keep track of things for a year. That said I am not opposed to keeping track of these selections if people prefer that they carry over to the following season.

    Thoughts?

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  6. Any system that results in MORE FPs being injected into the system is, in my view, counter-productive. We're already carrying 216 FPs in the farm. This year we will add 48 more while only 30 are mandatory call-ups. As it is we, as a group, on average have more than 4 year's worth of picks tucked away. Some have many, many more than others. I am talking about me. The fewer are stored in reserve, the better.

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  7. I'm for this idea with an exception, I agree with Cameron that many (all?) owners sit on FP's far too extensively. If we could somehow either start the FP clock earlier, or create a greater flow than I have no problem adding to FP's.

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