Ok, so I have been co-commissioner of our 12 team NL only 4x4 keeper league since we started 32 years ago. We formed our rule set pretty much straight out of the Waggoner/Okrent book and We’ve had a very stable league constitution but of course have added (and deleted) some rules along the way.
One of the rules we added well over 20 years ago when we instituted FAAB ($100 budget) for the first time was that if you bid $25 or more on a free agent and you win the bid, you are obliged to keep that player the following season (as long as that player still had NL affiliation).
One of the newer teams (to both our league and the game in general) asked me what this rule is trying to accomplish and for the life of me I really couldn’t come up with a good answer. He thought that a league with a salary cap and a finite FAAB budget, this rule seemed completely unnecessary and overly punitive......and at that moment, I couldn’t really argue.
So, if anyone else uses this rule I’d be interested to hear what you would consider its purpose and also whether or not you think it is kind of redundant given the existence of a cap and a finite FAAB budget.
Thanks for reading
Daver
One of the rules we added well over 20 years ago when we instituted FAAB ($100 budget) for the first time was that if you bid $25 or more on a free agent and you win the bid, you are obliged to keep that player the following season (as long as that player still had NL affiliation).
One of the newer teams (to both our league and the game in general) asked me what this rule is trying to accomplish and for the life of me I really couldn’t come up with a good answer. He thought that a league with a salary cap and a finite FAAB budget, this rule seemed completely unnecessary and overly punitive......and at that moment, I couldn’t really argue.
So, if anyone else uses this rule I’d be interested to hear what you would consider its purpose and also whether or not you think it is kind of redundant given the existence of a cap and a finite FAAB budget.
Thanks for reading
Daver
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