Suggestions to help this league run better

[Drew]

as with Dynasty or was it Backyard NHL and many Baseball leagues, allow owners to customize their MiL team name using logos with established profsl BBC (existing codes).

ex. my Florida Panthers could have a MiLR called

Red River Blue Jays  :TOR-MLB:

Key Biscayne Pirates  :TAM:

Nominingue Mighty Ducks 

* just another way for an owner to personalize their FNHL experience.

The only reason I am opposed to this is because I found this to be a unique addition I made to Backyard. Rather not have these small things stolen but if everyone else wishes to do so I guess I didn't trademark the idea haha.

[Drew]

i know this has been brought up before...

use Trade Blocks on the team page as a 2nd post

how to: since all team pgs are open for reply, a team's owner can just reply to the team pg post and create a Trade Block using this proposed template:

****************************************************************
Trade Block (as of July 17/12 @ 2:20pm)
C, Zack Smith, $3.5m (2014-2015)
D, Oliver Ekman-Larsson, $5.6m (2015-2016)
D, Alex Pietrangelo, $6.8m (2015-2016)

Looking for via trade:
Prospects
Centers

****************************************************************


Note: other benefits, owners can also use that space for team notes to themselves to help them track their team activities. also, the post is time stamped so you know if the trade block is current or not.

I did this in Backyard and it seems to work alright. Trade blocks don't get changed alot so either way works.

[Drew]

here's an old idea joeshmoe brought up Nov.4'10... Awards + Incentives
http://www.profsl.com/smf/index.php?topic=11641.0

rebel nhl uses awards (derived from final standings results) to offer discounts on FA signings.

perhaps the awards in FNHL should be for
most trades
most FA signings
most FNHL transactions
etc.

just starting the thinking, or picking up where joeshmoe / chris left off.

I would say stick to performance based awards instead of activity driven.

[PigsRule]

another old idea from Teddy369 back in Nov18'10...
http://www.profsl.com/smf/index.php?topic=12577.0

he suggested designating 2 Franchise Players per team and those players getting a "hometown" discount.

this should be a no-brainer for a league called Franchise NHL.
it's exactly the "twist" this league should have that makes it slightly different, more unique relative to the other leagues.

i strongly recommend this.

how to:
- assign 2 players
- Franchise Player gets 15% hometown discount to their team
- tag the Franchise Players on team roster page.
- value is only for current team
- if traded the Franchise players loses the designation and his contract goes back to actual value (no longer discounted)

let's implement this for the start of the regular season in Oct'12.

[PigsRule]

here's an old idea joeshmoe brought up Nov.4'10... Awards + Incentives
http://www.profsl.com/smf/index.php?topic=11641.0

rebel nhl uses awards (derived from final standings results) to offer discounts on FA signings.

perhaps the awards in FNHL should be for
most trades
most FA signings
most FNHL transactions
etc.

just starting the thinking, or picking up where joeshmoe / chris left off.

[PigsRule]

i have seen numerous rule changes in various leagues being imposed or take effect almost immediately which is a big turn-off.

i suggestion any new rule changes be implemented down the line, at least 30-day out or after key activity dates (draft, FA, start of reg. season, etc.). most should be for the following season.

it just helps with a league's stability when things aren't changing on the fly.

[PigsRule]

i know this has been brought up before...

use Trade Blocks on the team page as a 2nd post

how to: since all team pgs are open for reply, a team's owner can just reply to the team pg post and create a Trade Block using this proposed template:

****************************************************************
Trade Block (as of July 17/12 @ 2:20pm)
C, Zack Smith, $3.5m (2014-2015)
D, Oliver Ekman-Larsson, $5.6m (2015-2016)
D, Alex Pietrangelo, $6.8m (2015-2016)

Looking for via trade:
Prospects
Centers

****************************************************************


Note: other benefits, owners can also use that space for team notes to themselves to help them track their team activities. also, the post is time stamped so you know if the trade block is current or not.

[PigsRule]

as with Dynasty or was it Backyard NHL and many Baseball leagues, allow owners to customize their MiL team name using logos with established profsl BBC (existing codes).

ex. my Florida Panthers could have a MiLR called

Red River Blue Jays  :TOR-MLB:

Key Biscayne Pirates  :TAM:

Nominingue Mighty Ducks 

* just another way for an owner to personalize their FNHL experience.

[PigsRule]

given teams have 4 draft picks annually, the MiLR gets full fast (for a true MiLR, 20-25 spots would be a good #).

however, to gradually increase the #s, you could:
* increase by 2 for a total 15 MiLR spots as of the start of Draft 2012.

* then increase again by 5 for total of 20 MiLR spots by Dec 2012 so heading into the trade deadline.

leaves teams with plenty of time to move Draft Picks and Prospects around as needed to position themselves for playoff drive or the 2013 off-season.

[PigsRule]

to make things a little more interesting and advanced, we should consider "offer sheets"...

how it works:

*Eligibility: Offer Sheets can only be submitted for players with an expiring Rookie Contract (thus the need to designate/differentiate these rookie contracts from regular contracts).

*Mechanics:
    - The team that owns the expiring rc contract posts an extension.
    - Any of the other 29 teams wanting to counter that extension
      (due to the player's value, position scarcity, or they just love that player, etc.)
      can post a counter offer of > value
    - limit the offer sheet window
    - exclusive extensive period for expiring rc contracts to handle this
    - proposed rules around "offer sheeting" can be similar to NHL
      EX.

For 2011, a team signing a restricted free agent to a contract worth more than $7,835,219 per season loses four first-round picks to the player's old team.

For a contract worth $6,268,176 or more per year, the acquiring team gives up two first-round picks, one second rounder, and one third.

There are another four levels of compensation, going down to a contract worth up to $1,034,249 per year, for which there is no compensation.

        EX. in FNHL, offer sheet over $X Million = compensation of 1st + 2nd round picks or 1 player off opposing team's roster. etc. more details TBD.

WHY Offer Sheets to expiring RC contracts:
- additional strategy in cap league
- teams must offer decent value to high-end young guns exiting a "preferred contract" aka their rc contract.
- add new level of risk to contracts for in-demand players team would want to build a team around (ie... would someone offer sheet RNH, likely... how about Tuukka Rask or Brad Marchand, likely yeah!)
- in a 30 team league where players/assets can be scarce, this is another way for player movement (in addition to trades, FA, buyouts, etc.)


* Needs more fleshing out but that's the prelim. suggestion in a nutshell!