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Originally Posted by brorth
Question.
League 1 has teams with 67,64,64 and 59 players on the rosters.
League 2 has teams with 65,64,64,63,63,61 and 60 players on the rosters.
How many days before the free agent auction are you going to require teams to cut to 53? The odds of them releasing players better than what is available is pretty good, and I'd like time to figure out who has been released. That just seems right.
Secondly, some of these teams appear to have been abandoned by their owners. Who/How is it decided which players will be cut from those teams?
That's 42 and 69 players just to get them to roster limit.
Some will be no brainer retired players, but some will have offered production in 2012, and some may still be on NFL teams. This stuff should happen prior to the free agent auction, IMO.
Third, the reason this came up is I was offered a trade from a team with 59 players on the roster. I don't think it's right that teams can be offering trades while holding more than the roster limit now that a free agent system is in place.
Nothing against the dude that offered the trade, but that is as flawed as being able to trade players without contracts now that the contract system is in place.
BTW, I'm just offering input in case it helps.
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Good points all.
Technically, teams don't have to be down to 53 players until free agent bidding starts on June 9th. And now that I think about it, they don't even have to be at 53 then. They just can't bid on free agents until then. We may have to make an adjustment to that rule to get them to 53 by the start of free agency for the reason you mentioned.
We're developing a nifty automated system to handle roster cutdowns and contract signings for abandoned teams. It's not in place yet so if someone's abandoned their team I may leap into the fray on June 8th and do it for them. I need to send some reminders to teams first, though, because I'm not sure who's abandoned and who's just bidiing their time, thinking and pondering and paciing in front of their desk as they ponder their roster moves.