A

My thoughts are either A or B, but I'm leaning towards A so I'll go with A.

valuable per season, or valuable overall? is a 4 year, $32M contract worth more than a 3 year, $30M contract?

How are you deciding value? The highest dollar amount isn't usually the best value.

I don't think option C is going to go away no matter how many votes you get. Almost everything they do is based on Robin Hood.

All the proposed options are bad. I vote for C.

i was thinking overall value, since that seems to be consistent with the way the FA engine works.

but after thinking about it for a second, higher AAV makes the most sense. either that or a combination of the two.

either way, the main point is to feel out who prefers which basic concept- the details can be hammered out later.

The "problem" with a dozen responses is that all of them have come from "successful" owners who feel they've gotten screwed for being successful.

HBD is designed for everyone to have a chance to contend sooner rather than later. EVERY aspect of HBD is designed that way. Why would draft pick priority be different? Why should it?

because that's not how it's done in MLB, mike. to take a page from your arguing school:

should we give bad teams a one-run lead in each game? should we boost the ratings of a few players on teams that try, but lose 90 games?

there are rules in place to have bad teams get better, just as there are in MLB. we don't need poorly-thought out, additional rules to make it happen.

There are a lot of things in this game that aren't like MLB. This is only one of them. If you're going to ***** about this one, you better start making a lot more threads about other rules that don't follow MLB.

A, then B...

"C"

had to invoke the redline before this thread turned into an RSF mess.

i was feeling generous, so everyone gets to keep their first posts. after that it gets into a lotta re-hashing that clutters the thread and can go on for 10 pages.

That's a good way to encourage discussion...

Quote: Originally posted by deanod on 2/10/2010 Just pick a letter, give a brief explanation and 2nd place vote if you prefer, but I'ma start redlining if the discussion gets sidetracked or if you start voting for options D, E, F, etc.

the point of this thread is to tally votes, i set up another thread for discussion.

Red Line, I dare you.