An Idea for a Franchise Tag in Contract Leagues

[Dynasty Empire]

Hey everyone.

I have been working on an idea, and I would like to get some feedback from all the other contract league GM’s.

My idea is to implement a Franchise Tag. Each GM would have the option to use a Franchise Tag on one (1) impending free agent. A GM does NOT have to use the Franchise Tag every year, but they can if they want.

The Franchise Tag would automatically resign a player on an expiring contract for one (1) additional year at a 10% increase in their previous salary. Basically, it would be like extending their contract for one additional year.

There would be two restrictions that would come along with the Franchise Tag. They would be these:

1) A GM can NOT Franchise the same player in consecutive years. Once a player has been Franchised, the only way to bring him back the following year would be to do a normal resign
2) A player who is Franchised can NOT be bought out at any point during the year, or after the year. Also, the Franchised player can NOT be put on waivers. The Franchised player can, however, still be traded to another team. If the Franchised player is traded to another team, he automatically loses his Franchise tag, and is no longer subject to the restrictions that come with it. This means that the player can be Franchised by the new GM at the end of the year.

Well, guys, what do you think? I think this gives a nice option to bring back a player with a high salary that would normally be lost to free agency. It comes with enough restrictions, though, that it isn’t an automatic thing. You really need to be sure it is something you want to do.

Let me know what you all think. Leave a reply to this post and tell me if you like it or not, and why. If enough people do like it, I can talk to Mark and Oak about how we can implement this and when we could conceivably start using it.

Thanks a lot guys.

Lions

[Dynasty Empire]

1.Interesting. I’m wondering how all this would be kept track of though-Crunch


2.This is a really interesting idea and one that I think could work.

Crunch, it would be really easy to keep track of. We could just create a sub-forum titled “Franchise-Tagged Players – 2016-17” and list all of the players there. Once/If they are traded ,their topic would be deleted from the sub-forum. Wouldn’t be too much extra work for me and my guys lol.

All in all, this sounds like a very, very interesting idea and I would be willing to implement this in the future. Thanks Lions for this great idea.

D Train


3.Me and lions discussed it before he made it public and I love the idea the one suggestion I had was raising the 10 percent to something a little higher like 20-25%

Madhouse

4.The only reason I didn’t write up the 20-25% increase is because I think there is enough of restrictions in place. I feel like the 25% increase would make it more favorable to not use it, where as at 10% it makes it easier to handle. But, we can certainly discuss the percentage if this idea does get approved.

Lions


5.I think it’s a very good suggestion. I would lean toward a higher % along with the restrictions so that you would have to at least think about doing it

Dynasty Empire


6.I love the idea but any thought to making it like real life.
IE like the nfl the players cost the avg of the top 5 at they position

Hitmen

7.I like this idea and it doesn’t matter to me at what percent we make it.

Rams

8.I LOVE this idea. The 150% re-sign on star players is IMPOSSIBLE. So yeah, getting to tag a guy would be great, and I think it would help in trades as well.

Stark


9.I would be in favor of it as well. Personally, I like the 10%. I may be biased though because I usually end up with crazy high priced crappy contracts to begin with.

Jazz