Any possibility the rule will be changed to match MLB?

In order for a team to receive a draft pick as compensation, it has to offer a free agent a guaranteed one-year contract equal to the average of the top 125 players in the game.

+1

Not bad. 

Okay, I am not really a baseball fan, so I don't keep up with all this. How would this help? Seems stupid to me as a bystander.

Posted by caesari on 7/12/2012 7:01:00 PM (view original):
Okay, I am not really a baseball fan, so I don't keep up with all this. How would this help? Seems stupid to me as a bystander.

I think the benefit would be that, instead of just letting your top players go without a fight, and laughing all the way to the bank with all the comp picks (plus the salary saved that can be poured into IFA's and scouting), you would now have to offer a contract and risk the player signing it if you want the compensation.

Under the current system, there is little incentive for some teams to re-sign free agents, because they know that they can let them leave, and if the chips fall just right, they can build a super team through the international market and draft. And then THAT team will be fairly cheap to employ due to arbitration and pre-arbitration.

These are the teams that are in a perpetual rebuild all the time, and then all of a sudden become dominant, if not unbeatable for 5 or 6 straight years.

The major problem is with this: "average of the top 125 players in the game".

There is no way for us to say that these 125 players are the top players in the world. It is far too subjective and opens the door for an enormous amount of back lash. 

It would not have to be the "Top Players" but just top paid players. Also the 125 number could be adjusted to fit the programming.

I like it. You must offer the ave. Of the too 125 sashays or you are not eligible to be compensated. If you choose to make that offer, the player can accept or reject based on the existing logic.

Posted by jwendt on 7/25/2012 12:05:00 PM (view original):
I like it. You must offer the ave. Of the too 125 sashays or you are not eligible to be compensated. If you choose to make that offer, the player can accept or reject based on the existing logic.

Sashays?

To walk in a prancing manner?

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Maybe use the old MLB system and require that a franchise offer arbitration. Not certain how many problems this creates...