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Originally Posted by tambaberry
I think this should be the least realistic thing about the whole game. I would think a silent FA bidding, where you put what you would bid on the guy and submit it, then it signs the players based on this. This would take out the bidding up guys one dollar, and it would make you really think hard about what that guy would do for your team. It wouldn't be where you sign all your guys really cheap and then explode in free agency taking all the good guys so your team is stacked 2 and 3 deep.
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This gives me some ideas for the future that I think would be interesting. Have something of a "set the market" period, where people could do a secret process of showing interest in players, and giving an amount of what they would pay for said players. After that, you could take a gross average of the market value for a player, and then set a starting market range, with some sort of an option that is higher (a rather significant % above the market price) than that for people to fight for them in an overpay option. People that try to lowball in setting the market to lower the average with the plan to try to then jump to the buy now option later could offend the player and he won't even accept bids on them, and people that put in a really high price to try to drive the market way up could find themselves somehow forced out of other players because they had heard that their money was already tied up elsewhere...something like that.
After that, for players that no one wants to pay the premium for and get fast, people could bid on the player as we do now, with people haggling over the price over a long term, even $1 outbids, but already above the initial market price that their agent set for them in the secret dealings before.