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Originally Posted by patteeu
Are you phasing free agents in over time for because it's too hard to get all the data into the system all at once or because it keeps things interesting through the entire real NFL season?
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Two reasons.
First, it's a pure business thing. We want to keep people engaged year-round, albeit at a low level that doesn't compete with fantasy football.
Second, it's kind of good for game reasons. On your current roster you'll have injuries, and you'll have people who are having a terrible season or a great season. By feeding players into the pool over time, it will let people build their "training camp" roster with the opportunity to speculate on free agents early and get injury fill-ins without having to wait 16 weeks. You can almost think of the NFL season as the Sandbox training camp, where you get the players in and some get injured and you realize that others have lost a step.
On the second note, perhaps some feedback would be good. We were debating about feeding players into the pool on a weekly basis (current plan) or a quarterly basis. A quarterly basis would require less ongoing monitoring by players, because they would get a fresh batch of free agents after Week 4, 8, 12, and 17. We'd obviously like more engagement, but at the same time we don't want to compete with fantasy football.
Would people prefer weekly feeds of the free agent pool or quarterly feeds?