Background
- Traditionally, a letter of intent is used by high school athletes and college universities to indicate the athlete's intent to attend/play for a particular school.
What I am suggesting is GLB implement a system for allowing players to commit to a team w/o being actually being a free agent and offered a contract. I envision a specific tab on the team's profile page showing one and two seasons ahead with the list of committed players alongside players resigned through those seasons.
I would not go further than two seasons, as that is a bit ridiculous. Hell, even two seasons is pushing it and could be skimped.
This is really a win-win as team owners/GMs get a neat ordered roster so they no longer have to manage forum posts and players get the ease of knowing where each of their eleventy players is committed to.
Some needed specifics:
- Offering a 'letter of intent' could mimic that of a contract offer. It'd just need a season listed to it.
- Players committed to a specific team should be automatically signed to said team on D41.
- Team sales should give a committed player an alert, with the option to instantly opt out.
- A player's 'letter of intent' should be shown on their profile page.
- A build view option (depending on the agent's preference to share or not) would be nice for team owners/OCs/DCs w/ committed player builds.
- Players could have the ability to retract up until D32 of the prior season they are signing (aka if you are committed for S20 you would need to retract by S19D32), with the ability to opt out until D41 w/ owner approval. Alternatively, have the unrestricted opt out extend until D41, leaving no "locked in" period up until the auto-contract/sign.
Alterations to original proposal
McCoySoDope - player stats listed on the "commitments" tab/page
DrkSandman - how about coding to auto add signees to team forum?
- Traditionally, a letter of intent is used by high school athletes and college universities to indicate the athlete's intent to attend/play for a particular school.
What I am suggesting is GLB implement a system for allowing players to commit to a team w/o being actually being a free agent and offered a contract. I envision a specific tab on the team's profile page showing one and two seasons ahead with the list of committed players alongside players resigned through those seasons.
I would not go further than two seasons, as that is a bit ridiculous. Hell, even two seasons is pushing it and could be skimped.
This is really a win-win as team owners/GMs get a neat ordered roster so they no longer have to manage forum posts and players get the ease of knowing where each of their eleventy players is committed to.
Some needed specifics:
- Offering a 'letter of intent' could mimic that of a contract offer. It'd just need a season listed to it.
- Players committed to a specific team should be automatically signed to said team on D41.
- Team sales should give a committed player an alert, with the option to instantly opt out.
- A player's 'letter of intent' should be shown on their profile page.
- A build view option (depending on the agent's preference to share or not) would be nice for team owners/OCs/DCs w/ committed player builds.
- Players could have the ability to retract up until D32 of the prior season they are signing (aka if you are committed for S20 you would need to retract by S19D32), with the ability to opt out until D41 w/ owner approval. Alternatively, have the unrestricted opt out extend until D41, leaving no "locked in" period up until the auto-contract/sign.
Alterations to original proposal
McCoySoDope - player stats listed on the "commitments" tab/page
DrkSandman - how about coding to auto add signees to team forum?
Edited by Mat McBriar on Jul 24, 2012 12:48:39
Edited by Mat McBriar on Mar 22, 2011 12:31:45
Edited by Mat McBriar on Mar 14, 2011 16:28:43
Edited by Mat McBriar on Mar 14, 2011 16:10:11
Edited by Mat McBriar on Mar 14, 2011 14:56:02
