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Originally Posted by brorth
I've lost 8 of those 38 to IR in real life.
I've got seven draft picks.
To replace those 8 and keep my draft picks, I have to give up on ALL my other players(38+8+7=53).
If you're saying I need to decide who's worth keeping and letting street FA do their job, and who I want to cut bait on, I'll say I want to keep them all. That's why I signed them. With no IR, I'll play the players I have (probably out of position to secure a higher draft pick), and come back next season with more money, better players and a high draft pick.
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In fairness, what team wouldn't be destroyed in the real NFL by having 8 starters go on the IR? And when a player goes on the IR in real life, the Chiefs don't get to dip into an offseason FA pool - they have to go sign a street FA, which is the caliber of player you'd be getting by not filling the role with a real player.
Sandbox is kinda built to have some degree of difficulty in it and to maintain some level of realism. If the Chiefs lost 8 of their starters to the IR, they'd be a 2 win football team. Well...you may be in that boat.
I agree with CD - with as much advanced notice as we get and with Sandbox trying to stay as true to life as possible, I don't think there should be an IR. The street FA function is a reasonable approximation.