I have an idea

[Detroit]

How about this. For EOS FA bidding, we change the structure for guys ranked in the top 5, top 25, top 50, top 100.... and put in a different bidding structure for each tier? Like, the top 5 players min bid would start at IDK, 15M, for a minimum of 3 years on a contract. The top 25 could be minimum years of 2 on a contract....or something like that. Min $ doesn't matter, but set the minimum term at different years based on their EOS rankings within our league? Or even select players from all of free agents and assign a minimum number of years based on their: career rankings and age?

Just throwing out an idea.

[LA Dodgers]

Something like that could work. i for one if i could have gotten Kershaw in FA i would have signed him to 3 plus years. Or trout or Harper for that matter.

[Detroit]

Me too. I tried very hard with Kershaw. Very hard. But, I saw where KC was going and he wasn't gonna lose that bid!

[Minnesota Twins]

Basically the same thing we are voting on except more complicated cuz we have to figure out who top 25 players are. If people want to bid like crazy on Tom Murphy next yr at catcher let them, bit if they go high he is valuable enough to command extra yes too. You weren't able to get Kershaw and assign multi yes because we have this unlimited 1 yr deal thing going on. Happened for Kershaw and trout this yr and next yr we have kershaw, trout, Harper, Machado, rizzo

[Detroit]

This idea would mean more time and creativity with the free agent list, but just assign a minimum # of years to every player. The top 50-75 players need a minimum number greater than 1, the rest don't matter

[Detroit]

Minny, the rankings list is done by Yahoo. Sort it that way and you have your rankings. Only need to put a higher than 1 limit on the top guys. We don't need to go crazy. This is EASY.

In fact, I change my vote. I'll tell you why. Getting crazy on bidding for Tom Murphy will NOT happen because of the thresholds at 5 million dollar intervals. People just won't go crazy anymore. That's part of what makes FA bidding fun, watching guys like Adam Wainwright get WAY more money than they are worth!

There has to be a better way.

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Our FA happens after Yahoo 2017 closes and 2018 opens. Who is going to grab their rankings from the previous year before it closes? And what rankings are you going to use, the 2017 Yahoo that doesnt change much through the year, or the 'current rankings' that doesn't align to to new year's rankings?

I'm with Minny, that is record-keeping stuff and moving targets...not to mention Det, you just added another job to my to-do list come FA time, where I need to be cross-referencing who is in the top-whatever list.