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Originally Posted by dsavillian
There's very little strategic about sealed auctions with a limited budget.
- Promote distribution of talent? Yes, absolutely yes. It's a way of slowly letting teams pick up "free" assets. UFA could be an equalizer.
- Allow teams to easily fill holes? No. Fill holes, yes - absolutely. Easily? Not necessarily.
- Maximize what players get paid? Not really. I don't care what the player records have as a number next to the name - I care that UFA bidding isn't based on a coin flip.
Maybe the biggest contributor to all of this is that cap has next to zero value unless you spend it. If I, for example, go into the start of next season with 6M in cap space, it's pretty much wasted. I have no ownership group breathing down my neck asking me to spend less so they can turn a better profit. I don't have season ticket holders that complain about the price of their seats. I don't have to be accountable if I spend every last penny - so that means there's no management strategy. I have one spot to fill, I spend the max and hope I guess the player right.
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And yet many teams don't even submit offers that use all their cap space. So there is more to it then just that. Some teams choose to leave some to be able to add players via trade, others choose to leave 2M for sponsorships.
You are right - there is no motivation to spend less by end of season, but there are reasons not to use all your cap during the off-eason
I don't think UFA is a coin flip. I think you are over-stating that. Teams have to decide how many teams to bid on v. how much to bid on any one player. In a world where teams have limited cap - there are decisions there and those decisions do help to dictate who is successful.
It ain't just luck.