Quoting: F50marco
I like the idea for what to do with inactive GM's, matt. Think it makes perfect sense but can I ask why you feel having the expansion draft nearly 2 months before the real date is necessary? To be honest I haven't heard a good argument for it yet from anyone other then what I assume is that most of the GM's on here are too impatient and want things to happen now now now!
I'm not saying we should do the expansion draft the exact same day as the real thing. mayeb have it over the span of a week prior to the actual things. June 10th - 17th. I feel people are forgetting that the real playoffs are happening right now. The results of how players do and who wins the cup could change a lot of people's perspectives on guys. I strongly think making all these important dates months in advance is unwise if we want this game to be as accurate as possible.
Just a quick note on this. I believe too long of a delay will result in loss of interest.
I also think our focus should be on how to run the upcoming events right now.
Once we have a system in place for each stage of activities, we can set dates for them.
We need to have a method of doing the following:
1. Vegas negotiations with unprotected RFA's and UFA's.
2. Vegas Expansion Draft.
3. NHL Entry Draft
4. NHL Free Agency
Before we do actually begin any of those, we need a roster freeze period that extends through Vegas' Free Agency and Expansion Draft period.
The beginning of the roster freeze will also be the date for final protection lists to be submitted.
We may be able to run Vegas Free Agency using the spreadsheet I set up (UFA Thread) and protected lists can be posted in a special thread and in team descriptions at the same time.
Vegas will be able to have a thread that they can edit their picks into the first post on, as they make them. We can watch and discuss in that thread. (No discussion that clutters up the protection list thread).
Vegas will look in the protection list thread and once he sees a team's post in that thread, he can make his pick from that team.
I'm still looking for a solution to determine the winner of a free agent without all contracts ending up being 8 years in order to maximize the value, lower the cap hit, and have a better chance of winning players than those attempting to sign reasonable contracts. Example: Offering a 37 year old player $2M x 8 years ($16M) while others offer a more reasonable $5M x 3 years ($15M). The $2M x 8 contract would win, even though it is ridiculous.
I've tried to come up with some way to manage that, but if my ideas are too complicated, someone has to think up a simpler solution.