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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
The best players are not sitting in the minors, no matter who they sign with. They'll get the same money, and they'll have a chance to win.
The other thing your system would do is encourage young player to sign together - to go to their desired teams in bunches.
Total free agency wouldn't work, and would never be a level playing field. No matter how hard you try to argue for it to be.
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Where did I argue it’s for a level playing field ? It to remove randomness and luck and tanking - and to an extent rewarding poorly run organizations that are trying to win and suck at it / spend to the cap
2 guys want to sign together ? Great . They have to find a team with enough cap room to sign both . Why is this a “bad” thing . I want the bad teams to sign multiple 1st rounders if they have cap room ! It would bring more excitement to those markets , help them get better quicker (if done right ) and allow better team building strategy then hope a ball is picked in your favor
And what do you mean the good players won’t have to be in the minors ? 2 players from last years draft have played 18 or more games ! Celebrini is the only one over 18 games !
The biggest issue is most players need multiple years in the minors so how would contacts work if they were free agents - teams wouldn’t want a large % of their cap in the minors or bring up players too early before they have developed .
The benefit of getting a franchise 1st overall and not paying them market value is exponentially more important / valuable than anything else in the league . And right now getting that player is dependant on being bad and luck .
The only thing worse would be if it was just luck and seeing good teams get lucky while bad unlucky teams stay bad (although right noe there’s a situation where kind of bad unlucky teams never get a star like Detroit or Utah who had bad draft luck historically )