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Originally Posted by Hanna Sniper
The great thing about the way Grant did it this year is that there are so many players available for the first batch... thus teams with a large surplus of cash can't dictate the full FA's. For a Gm to be able to bid 1M on every player they must have 21M at their disposal.
There's going to be some major over payments, plus there's going to be some big discounts to other teams
Plus there's not the chance for GM with big pockets to underbid on the first wave and still have a second chance to land a top FA in the second batch. GM's will need to focus their dollars better rather then throwing high dollars at everything in hopes that one sticks
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Yeah this year will be different on the UFA market - the main reason for the size of the list is that there are simply more players, and more better players this year available via free agency than in the past. This first batch represents the "cream of the crop" but there are a lot of other guys still left over that in previous years would have been in this first round.
So it would seem teams are finally letting more players hit the market instead of paying them grid rates and then having those albatross contracts to deal with.