New Rules -- Please Vote

[timvp]

Seven "YES" votes are needed to pass. Since there are only 4 commissioners at the moment, we'll go to a league wide vote.

Please vote on all three rules. Only post a simple "YES" or "NO" vote. If there is more you'd like to discuss, email us at [email protected].

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1) Implement a salary ceiling of 150% of the cap in all months.

Pros:
--This will cut down on the mass amounts of "6 months, **.*M 15%" bids.
--It will increase the overall planning a team must do.

Cons:
--If your team is built to go over the cap, this might hurt your future plans.
--If someone tries to outbid you on a restricted free-agent, you may lose the player due to this rule.

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2) Since we only got 13 of the 15 teams we wanted to join, the league should expand to 15 player rosters.

Pros:
--It will give greater flexibility to your roster.
--You can take a risk on a player or two.

Cons:
--Not enough cap room.
--Your team just wants to concentrate on getting stars.

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3) Since Marcus Bryant isn't going to play, the third commissioner should be Spurminator.

Pros:
???

Cons:
--He's Spurminator.

[KoriEllis]

No
No
Yes

[Patrick Davis]

Yes
No
Abstain, he outbid me too many times to vote yes.

and come one, did i not get picked because i'm unreliable

[Nbadan]

1) Implement a salary ceiling of 150% of the cap in all months

Agreed. Although to keep the numbers and contracts more realistic it should be closer to 130% max.

Since we only got 13 of the 15 teams we wanted to join, the league should expand to 15 player rosters.

Disagree. I think it would be easier to just create two 2 dummy teams out of the players that are left at the end of the signing period, and all players would have 1 month contracts on those teams.

Since Marcus Bryant isn't going to play, the third commissioner should be Spurminator

Spurminator and I have had our disagreements in the past, but he'd make a OK commiss, I guess. Agreed.

[Spurminator]

I agree that some hard cap for every month should be set, because I've wondered what would prevent anyone from giving all 15% raise contracts and resigning every player at the end of their term. That said, putting that rule into effect after so many 15% offers have been made could mess with many of our rosters/offers.

I don't think we need more players per team. I don't mind having more "free agents" that can be signed during the season.

I would accept a co-commishioner role, and I would do my best not to let my extreme right-wing political ideology influence my decisions.

[Guru of Nothing]

Yes (a lukewarm one)
No (Decisions are mighty, tighty enough as it is)
Yes (He likes the Old 97s)

[T Park Num 9]

no
no
yes any extremist right winger who is accused of being a racist is ok with me

[Guru of Nothing]

yes any extremist right winger who is accused of being a racist is ok with me

Just for the record, not for 1 millisecond have I thought of you as a racist, Spurm. I think it was a Freudian-slip on T-Park's behalf to express otherwise, more or less.

[Spurminator]

It's cool, I got the joke.

I'm not really an extreme right winger anyway, I just come off that way most of the time.

[LittleGeneral]

No
No
Yes

[Nbadan]

agree that some hard cap for every month should be set, because I've wondered what would prevent anyone from giving all 15% raise contracts and resigning every player at the end of their term. That said, putting that rule into effect after so many 15% offers have been made could mess with many of our rosters/offers.

I agree that their are too many 15% contracts out there, and some bidders are grossly over the cap in subsequent years. They will have no choice but to dump huge salaries because the salary cap isn't going to go up, and everyone has to have at least 12 players on the roster.

I think there should also be a luxary tax to prevent anyone from manipulating the numbers by simply resigning their own players they overpaid in the first place.

That luxary tax should be a outright ban on resigning your own players, or having to pay x3 the closes other offer on the table from any other team owner.

[IcemanCometh]

no
no
no

[timvp]

I guess the results are:

No
No
Yes

Congrats, Spurminator.

[Spurminator]

Thanks.