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Cnasty wrote:There is no influx of 10 top prospects that suddenly become available in the league from across the globe. . Teams don’t magically get away with 7 year $4mil a year deals and can continue to take advantage of the AI/IFA process by backloading their minors continuously.

Keep it then, fun!

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wdoupis wrote:I just did some research, there were over 800 IFAs signed last year. There is a "top 30" report published every year which is why our game does 30.

If you look at our league about 10% of the top 20 batters or pitchers any given year are midseason IFA signings.

This is not a problem in our league and is nowhere near unrealistic.

This poll is about Ted so if you want to address that then make another poll with a hard cap on money spent or a hard cap on players you can sign/bids made at a time. Perhaps the new CBA will fix it for us on its own

Shouldn't be on players signed. If I want to sign 10 20/20 guys for a total of $1M as a flyer what's it hurting? Should be total amount of money spent (tax included)

GeorgesGoons wrote:

wdoupis wrote:I just did some research, there were over 800 IFAs signed last year. There is a "top 30" report published every year which is why our game does 30.

If you look at our league about 10% of the top 20 batters or pitchers any given year are midseason IFA signings.

This is not a problem in our league and is nowhere near unrealistic.

This poll is about Ted so if you want to address that then make another poll with a hard cap on money spent or a hard cap on players you can sign/bids made at a time. Perhaps the new CBA will fix it for us on its own

Shouldn't be on players signed. If I want to sign 10 20/20 guys for a total of $1M as a flyer what's it hurting? Should be total amount of money spent (tax included)

If the system goes to the new CBA, it would work the way you stated.

We would only have to discuss whether we want to allow for the trading of bonus pool dollars, which the real CBA does provide for.

dakshdar wrote:

GeorgesGoons wrote:

wdoupis wrote:I just did some research, there were over 800 IFAs signed last year. There is a "top 30" report published every year which is why our game does 30.

If you look at our league about 10% of the top 20 batters or pitchers any given year are midseason IFA signings.

This is not a problem in our league and is nowhere near unrealistic.

This poll is about Ted so if you want to address that then make another poll with a hard cap on money spent or a hard cap on players you can sign/bids made at a time. Perhaps the new CBA will fix it for us on its own

Shouldn't be on players signed. If I want to sign 10 20/20 guys for a total of $1M as a flyer what's it hurting? Should be total amount of money spent (tax included)

If the system goes to the new CBA, it would work the way you stated.

We would only have to discuss whether we want to allow for the trading of bonus pool dollars, which the real CBA does provide for.

Can you explain how that would work, maybe an example? Trading of monies

wdoupis wrote:I know this is directed at Ted but everyone has the chance to sign guys like he does.

If we want to limit how many a guy can bid on and therefore sign then that should be an option as well

Not when the offers are WAY over going rate.

DRWebs wrote:Bonus Pools Explained

Nope, link didn't get me to the answer

This one is dead in the water

Should we do another poll on a max cap per player and max cap per team spent on IFA (before tax)? And what should those numbers look like?

GeorgesGoons wrote:This one is dead in the water

Should we do another poll on a max cap per player and max cap per team spent on IFA (before tax)? And what should those numbers look like?

No

If we switch the CBA in the game then we don't need a poll, it will change for us.

Bonus pool explanation for George:

In basic terms, each team has $5 mil for IFA. You can't go over that value of signings. That's not exactly right in MLB terms (some teams get $4.75 mil, some get up to $5.75 depending on factors that MLB thinks helps competitive balance) - but it's close.

You can trade for a portion of someone else's IFA bonus pool. Where the current MLB CBA is at you can increase your starting pool by 60%, so another few million is what you can acquire from someone else's pool in a trade.

There's other things tied to luxury tax (where you can lose pool money if you're over the tax and do certain things like signing types of MLB free agents), which we don't utilize so they're not worth going into in detail.

From what I've read on Reddit, OOTP has the ability to institute the $5 mil hard cap that the current CBA basically has but not to scale the values based on competitive balance factors (not a big issue) and doesn't allow trading of the pool (honestly not really a big issue either).

I don't see any reason we should not be using that option as that is the current CBA stance in MLB.