04-22-2025, 05:31 PMWannabeFinn Wrote: We made it very, very clear that in order for us to improve the Free Agent process, teams need to have their agreements posted prior to the signing freeze so that we don’t enter into free agency with a bunch of “free agents” that aren’t, actually, UFAs. It’s an unfortunate circumstance, but the fact of the matter is that the manager had plenty of time to square away their contracts, and did not. What should have been done in this case was move the player to the FA section, and re-acquire their contract agreement after the signing freeze ended. There would have been no reason to remove the player from TBB’s possession had this been the fact. Unfortunately, TBB kept ahold of a free agent player and dissuaded any other team from making an offer when no contract had been posted, or signed, including after the 1st Day of games being played.


There’s something to be said for getting your clerical tasks done in a timely fashion. Unfortunately this is the result of not doing so, and it isn’t isolated to just Tampa Bay. Hopefully we can all learn from this and not make the same unfortunate mistakes in the future.

I definitely understand the importance of getting your tasks in on time, and I understand the need for a punishment, I’m not arguing against that at all, I just think there could have been a better way to go about it that doesn’t hurt a user over something they had no control over. Something like a cap fine on top of the draft pick forfeiture would have been more fair IMO.

Cheers for the response finn.