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As an aside, I will probably start opening PMs in about two hours. I saw someone enter the spreadsheet while I was in there, but the chat button never popped up. I am starting to get concerned that I am the only one unable to enter the chat. I hope a solution presents itself, but I want people to be mentally prepared to have the draft be moved to the B8 Discord channel if nothing does in the next few weeks.
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
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Nobody is suggesting that anyone should be afraid of making trades? I just desire for people to first and foremost don't be self-serving dicks and also put in the effort to understand why you are making the trade, how you came up with the trade, and what the perceived short and long-term ramifications of the trade are. For a trade to be truly consensual, I think that transparency and a thorough understanding from various angles are required.

Now I know that I have plenty of room for improvement, but I feel like I at least touch base on all points in my trade talks. Using an example from this offseason, when I initiated discussions with prof regarding LG Damien Bell, here are some of the things that crossed my mind:
- Kendall Simmons will still be almost certainly be playing for me beyond this season, so I would have to pay Bell a lot of money to be a backup in Season 12. That is money I can probably not afford. I also have a logjam at interior OL that I should test to see if they will be future replacements for Simmons and Todd McClure. Having him sit on my bench is kind of a waste, and he has some trade value. Who is a team that could really use him?
- Mike Wahle just retired for the Wildcats. With Tyron Smith likely slotting over to fill Rex Tucker's spot at RT, they just has some low-rated youngsters and upper-70s vets to take over at LG.
- The free agent market is stocked with 30-something stop-gap solutions that are all lower-rated than Bell.
- Wildcats have a ton of cap space, but they will likely focus on using what remains after UFAs on defense in the draft and free agency and could greatly benefit from having already filled one gaping hole who will only count $1.89 mil against the cap.
- Damien Bell is 24 and 85 overall. He is largely untested so I can't really use his small sample size as a pro or con.
- With Bell's age and rating, being a part of a prolific Wildcats offense with three high-rated OL to play along side could see him developing quickly and perhaps help out Jimmy Clauson's development.
- I think that he's worth a little more than a 3rd but not the Wildcats' 34th overall pick. I see that I have a bunch of early round picks from the Bills and 49ers. I think that the 3rd plus some small trade downs is close enough to fair value for Bell. Let's see what prof thinks.

Not all of this got translated to my PM to prof, but most of it was. Upon checking I forgot to talk about the initial Dolphins angle. I almost always preface trade initiation PMs with me trying to reduce present or future salary cap obligations, because that is the driving force for almost every trade I have made in the past three or so seasons. I do remember though that I tried to get a particular draft pick for the novelty of having so many consecutive picks (something like four or five) last season. Back on track, that was really a big goof from me, but overall I do see myself as a transparent, thorough trade partner, and I hope others are too and if they aren't, they will follow suit.
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Waluigi1 posted...

KCF0107 posted...

I have beaten it probably four times as well. Each time, I come to appreciate some things a little more (Link's footwork, Fire and Water Temples, gameflow) and some things less (world, side activities, bosses, hitbox).

I vastly prefer the 2D/2.5D offerings over the 3D ones (I think Majora's Mask is the only 3D among my Top 8 or so). I'm also not a big fan of the series as a whole. If I were to make my Top 10 Nintendo series, I am not sure that LoZ makes it.

That being said, I do think that Ocarina of Time is good game and a more than admiral initial effort for its transition from 2D into 3D.

Why have you played it so many times if you're not a fan though? Seems odd.

- Beat it in 99 when I was nine.
- I got a Zelda compilation game for resubscribing to Nintendo Power I think and wanted to know what my thoughts were in 2005 or so now that I was a teenager.
- I decided to pay the $15 or so for the 3DS game in like 2012 or so because I had always wanted to try out the Master Quest version. I also wanted to see what my thoughts were now that I was an adult.
- It was selected for a project here called Game of the Month and thought that was a good way to kill some time late at night.
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Yeah sure. The spreadsheet in the second post contains all the games that we have done, and this sheet in particular lists all the games by alphabetical columns

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1X8E8oqzES42W4S82j7WTfNnzNa8c3uXdSE1rnqYG7WM/edit#gid=529774635
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Bump
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Jakyl25 posted...

KCF0107 posted...

If I were to make my Top 10 Nintendo series, I am not sure that LoZ makes it.

I feel like that would take a real firm slicing up of the various Mario series

I mean Mario itself is a franchise with a plethora of distinct series, so I don't know why I wouldn't count them as separate entities.

My order is more or less:
1. Super Mario
2. Pikmin
3. WarioWare
4. Paper Mario
5. Mario Golf
6. Kyle Hyde (if you consider two games to be a series)
7. Advance Wars
8. Mario Kart
9. Mario Party
10. F-Zero
11. Mario & Luigi
12. Kirby
13. Metroid
14. Legend of Zelda

If you were to consider New Super Mario Bros and Metroid Prime as their own series (I see them as sub-series), then Zelda drops to 16th.
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I have only seen one of these, but Sorry to Bother You is one of my favorite films of the year.
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I have beaten it probably four times as well. Each time, I come to appreciate some things a little more (Link's footwork, Fire and Water Temples, gameflow) and some things less (world, side activities, bosses, hitbox).

I vastly prefer the 2D/2.5D offerings over the 3D ones (I think Majora's Mask is the only 3D among my Top 8 or so). I'm also not a big fan of the series as a whole. If I were to make my Top 10 Nintendo series, I am not sure that LoZ makes it.

That being said, I do think that Ocarina of Time is good game and a more than admiral initial effort for its transition from 2D into 3D.
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I think foolmo is referring more to sales than price drops, which he is undeniably correct in the macro sense.
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Steam Secret Santa?

Kora runs that around the first of December. However, I know he had been dealing with health problems and I don't know if he even visits the board at all.

If he doesn't show up around the first week of December and nobody was in a rush to get a topic up, I have no issue running it this year.
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ScareChan posted...

So thats why Tavon Austin had a good off season, being around the best reciever?

I don't think it quite works that way given Austin was not a starter but the #4 WR who probably didn't see much of a high volume of snaps shared with Andre Johnson.

However, it is highly likely that Cam Newton making great strides as a passer was predominantly due in part to the presence of a Superstar WR. Having him for two, possibly three more seasons could make Cam Newton emerge as one of the few scrambling QBs who became potent passers. I don't want to fill your head with the belief that will absolutely be what's in store for him, but I gave you a hard time for making Newton your replacement for Big Ben, and after one season, I appear to be totally wrong.
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With that being said, I have said everything that I wanted to talk about publicly. Nobody likes soapbox talks, but I hope people respect what I had to say. I might still talk with the people that I was going to do so privately, but that is not my chief concern at the moment. I promise that I will start the rest of the PMs probably later during Thanksgiving.

Thank you for being patient everyone.
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Last season though, I have to admit that despite implementing the rules minimizing chances for players to game the season, I was still very irked by how things went down, namely in some trades. Sometimes it was the value, sometimes it just didn't make sense, but that happens all the time. The trades that really bothered me were the ones that checked out from a value and sense standpoint but a deeper dive showed that one side was likely to face glaring negative consequences that I feel the recipient of that wasn't aware of that but the other was and didn't bother to tell them. I wasn't going to say anything at all until one user recently made an admission about one thing that I feel was also an indirect admission to taking advantage of a user last offseason.

I originally said that I was going to contact a few users about this, and I still might, but I'm hoping that people who conduct trades with others will start to become a little less self-centered and a little more aware that your actions can impact the happiness of present and future users involved in this project and also that I have spent well over 1000 hours of my life on this project and would rather it not become a former shell of itself. I personally feel that this project requires a great sense of social responsibility from everyone involved and when people start to veer away and exclusively or almost exclusively look out for themselves, things can unravel quickly and in an ugly fashion.

I will probably start putting any trades that I deem to have not been conducted in good faith on hold until users are contacted or outright killing, with obviously an explanation, though probably private. I have no qualms about taking advantage of my seldom-used powers to further to clean up the league even if that makes me look like a bad guy. I just hope that if it does unfortunately happen that people realize that I do nothing out of spite. I do everything out of respect for the league and the users who were kind enough to spend their time and effort on this project that I didn't know if it would stick or even take off
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Introduced last season were measures to prevent users from gaming the system. I blame myself for it getting out of control, but I had hoped that would nip all those problems in the bud. What I never did was have measures in place to prevent users from taking advantage of other users, whether it is intentional or not.

Sure there is the veto system in place, but it is very clear that I view things differently, mostly perhaps due to my role as commissioner and my vast history with the game. As some already know, I think that a good chunk of the trades being made are kind of bad, whether in terms of value, sense, and/or present and future ramifications. I would estimate that even as high as 90% of the trades being done have at least one side that if I were in their shoes, I would have walked away from the deal. I tend to keep quiet publicly on most trades with the occasional chiming in to express my thoughts and ask pertinent questions from both sides that neither may have asked themselves or each other. I know that because of The Trade perhaps my reputation took a bit of a hit, but out of the hundreds of trades that have been made across 10+ seasons, I have actually only used my commish powers to nix two outright with a couple others being pseudo-rejected and ultimately have the parameters restructured after further explanation cleared things up for all the parties involved.

I honestly feel that for the size and scope of this project, I am an extremely lenient commissioner. I ultimately want everyone to have fun and share success while shaping their team in the vision of their choosing, and I feel that I let everyone do that 99.9% of the time. I am more than willing to impart any knowledge that I have to aid everyone including giving in-depth analysis and advice for virtually anything. I sincerely hope that people feel that I have done a great job running this and always feel that they can come to me for anything. I know that this project entirely hinges on my word as there's no stream, video uploads, or even screenshots shown, and the moment that faith is lost in me is the moment that I know the the present and future of B8NFLL is in trouble.

With that being said, I feel obligated to do a better job of protecting certain users, namely those that tend to be very agreeable. I know that it can be hard to say no when someone tries to engage you in trade talks or outright makes a proposal to you, and I hope nobody has said yes to one of my trade requests just because I'm a commissioner or they are afraid of telling someone no. I feel like I'm never pushy, and I'd like to think that if I feel like someone has very little to no interested at all but are being overly courteous as to try to not and hurt my feelings, I usually end things quickly in a way so they don't feel like they strung me along and wasted everyone's time. I also feel like I am very transparent when I do trade talks and explain how I viewed the trades from both sides and the big picture.

I don't really know how other people go about trading with other users though. On occasion, I am given a heads up on a potential trade just so they can get my thoughts on it, but for the most part, I am totally out of the loop how everyone conducts their trade business. I have noticed in recent seasons an uptick in trades that I have suspected one user was being taken advantage of, but as I mentioned earlier I don't really know if it was intentional or not. I never came out and said it but instead entered with a different angle asking questions about how they came up with their value, why the trade was being made, and questions of that sort.
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I have brought this up in chat from time-to-time, and I have probably posted something along these lines once every other season, but I want to reiterate to people that you should always field a competitive team. Even if it seems unlikely that you will make the playoffs, you should at all times try to win as many games as possible.

Player development in this video game does not work like real life. While individual performance does have a great impact on their development, unit and team performance also play a significant role. if you surround good players or players that you see as one of the cornerstones of your team present and/or future with poor or lackluster teammates, the chances of their development being stalled or their regression being accelerated regardless of how they personally play substantially increases. A LB early or midway through their career could have a sensational season, but if their fellow starting LBs were relative no-shows or even worse, the entire defense was a total pushover, then your LB has a great chance of improving by just one point, see no changes, or even digress.

As an example, the Columbus Pioneers ended the season on a seven-game losing streak with the defense completely eroding and becoming the worst in the league by a decent margin. Defensive Player of the Year candidate and MVP candidate, then 29-year old LB Kamerion Wimbley saw no rating change come the offseason. The season before, Packers' 32-33-year-old LB Spencer Havner was a co-MVP winner and by virtue of not having his defensive comrades let him down, he actually saw his rating rise despite being in the waning years of his career.

If you applies this to your entire team, you might see some players go up a point or two after the season ends, mostly the players just starting out their careers who already get an end-of-season boost. but if four times as many see their ratings drop multiple points, then you're going backwards as a team. So if someone adopts a roster-building philosophy that has them doing a sizable teardown and doesn't supplement that with a plethora of high draft picks and/or being a major force in free agency, then you are destined to fall into a cycle of poor or mediocre teams. I would have to assume that isn't very fun nor is it good for the health of the league. There are some examples that I can use of teams that just weren't getting it done but stuck with it and more or less worked out in the end.

The Cowboys are a team that have picked in the Top 10 five times. Their GM was periodically active in free agency. They were patient, and ultimately everything clicked after several seasons and have reeled off four straight SB appearances.

The Pumpkins have picked in the Top 5 three times. Instead of throwing in the towel, they held onto their key players. They had a string of good draft picks, and once the AI took over, they went after free agents hard. They had a non-losing record for I want to say four straight seasons before the hiccup last season. While it never resulted in a playoff appearance as they were victims of being in arguably the toughest division and a historically the tougher conference, they were statistically one of the best teams in the league, and the player development proved that. They remain a playoff caliber team and will likely remain so for at least the next few seasons.

The bottom line is that you should always try to field the best team that you can. That doesn't mean that you should always hold onto players you no longer want on your team just because they have a good rating. I'm just saying that you if feel that you need to make plenty of changes for your team, do not rebuild but retool or the future for your team will likely be grim.
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Bears/Dolphins trade is official.

Since it appears that nobody was really in favor of doing the increase of $3 mil in cap space, then we will continue to operate at $157 mil this season. There is one thing that I found curious among the comments and want talk about. I wouldn't let your cap space affect how you operate in RFA. You really want to hold onto your player badly or feel that the draft compensation won't be worth it losing him? Go with the highest tender! It came out to $2.52 mil this season. To fulfill all of your roster obligations, you can pay each player on average $3.41 mil. Knowing that the overwhelming majority (something's wrong if it isn't) of your bench and even some starters, such as K, P, sometimes FB, and perhaps a few others, will be making less than that, many times substantially so, that $2.52 mil can come out as an absolute bargain or at least be palatable to swallow.

It is also probably easier than you think to free up cap space. It might not result in the most ideal outcome, but sometimes you have to decide if you prefer higher-end starting talent with shallower depth or mid-tier talent with some decent depth. Some words of advice if you do not feel that you are good at managing your cap is to to not pay much for the last member of a position that will not see much time barring injuries, such as the #3 QB, #4 CB, or #2 FS. If you have a good memory for injuries and still have your stat PM, you can easily come up to the conclusion of which players on your team just don't see the field. Don't forget that you don't have to get under the cap, if you were to somehow go over, until the preseason is simmed.
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Detroit Lions
Dallas Cowboys
New Orleans Saints

Jacksonville Jaguars
Cincinnati Bengals
New England Patriots
Philadelphia Eagles
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Carolina Panthers
Baltimore Ravens
Los Angeles Chargers
Denver Broncos
Indianapolis Colts
Minnesota Vikings

Houston Texans
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Detroit Lions
Dallas Cowboys
New Orleans Saints
Philadelphia Eagles
Jacksonville Jaguars
Carolina Panthers
Baltimore Ravens - LOCK
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Cincinnati Bengals
New England Patriots
San Diego Chargers
Denver Broncos
Indianapolis Colts
Minnesota Vikings - SUPER LOCK
Houston Texans - LOCK
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Level 3:
Lions
Texans

Bonus: 11
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Level 5 (line already teased):
Nevada at UNLV (+6.5)

Fun Fact: I would have passed Level 5 last week if I went with the first random game that came up, Bowling Green (PK) at Akron
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For my final nom, I am doing Battleblock Theater. Doing another Behemoth game last December (Castle Crashers) provided a good time with MSG, Wickle, Lolo, and myself, so maybe we can go 2 for 2?

Monthly Progress
Nemo - Nee
Loathing - Unicorn, Ark, gameking
GoW II - gameking
BG&E - KCF

Nominations
Ark - Celeste, 80 Days
Crispy - Yakuza, Full Throttle
darkx - Metroid Fusion
KCF - Renegade Ops, Trine, Battleblock Theater
Nee - Princess Remedy 1, Super Castlevania IV
Unicorn - Star Fox

Drawing on Sunday
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KCF has beaten Beyond Good & Evil

I own this game for five systems, and I have now beaten it six times, which I would have to imagine is more than any non-Super Mario game, Maybe its boss fights aren't the greatest, but it is outstanding in pretty much every other aspect of the game.
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Wasn't Hitchcock fired by the Blues so Yeo could take over?
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Other than the first team who sent a PM, I haven't opened any of them yet and plan to do so, technically, today. However, I have a few things that I want to say and contact a few users directly before doing so.
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Go Mavs!
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Super Mario World > ALttP > DKC 2 > who cares
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My favorite game to watch this season might have been Texans/Cowboys.

I prefer close games first and ones that aren't shootouts second. It makes the big offensive plays all the more exciting. A game where nobody stops anybody and big plays happen left and right has the law of diminishing returns come on fast and heavy.

I suppose that also applies to baseball for me where I prefer a pitchers duel and each run scored means a lot more in the context of the game.
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Remember when I was in the lead? Good times.
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Und3adUnicorn posted...

Id like to nominate Super Mario Oddysey and Star Fox(SNES)

Super Mario Odyssey has been done before
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The only way that you can sign someone beyond their age 34 season is if it is already included in their base deal.

For example, if someone will be playing their age 30 season, you can sign them for no longer than five years unless their default deal was already 6 or 7 years.

If someone is already 34 or older, then you are limited to their base deal lengths or shorter.
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When I go into the re-signing menu in the game, I am presented with three categories with increase/decrease arrows. As you may have guessed, they are the components of the slash line.

The deal that I give for each player is what I call the base deal. It is the exact deal that I see when I go into the re-signing menu. It also is the default deal for however many years that I listed.

Using my own player as an example, SS Antoine Bethea wants 2 / $6.20 mil / $640k. That is both his base deal and default 2 year deal. By using the aforementioned increase/decrease arrows, I can change his years and get the default contract for the new length. For Bethea, three years now produces a slash line of 3 / $9.48 mil / $1.02 mil. Pretending someone else was in charge of the Dolphins, if someone asked to sign Bethea to default 3 years, that new contract is what he would be signed to.

As you may have surmised from my example, the original base deal that I list is typically, but far from always, the most cost-effective contract. Increasing or decreasing contract length can cause the annual cap hit and bonus to increase, but usually not by much (rookie signing is a completely different animal).

Of course, there are different factors to consider. Signing everyone to their base deals, usually 2-4 seasons in length, can easily cause future roster and cap space issues, but I hope that you get the gist.
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In other news, the 49ers/Dolphins and Wildcats/Dolphins trades are official.

We also have our fourth off-season trade!

Bears receive:
DT Joe Upshaw
K Sergio Aguayo
S12 4th round pick

Dolphins receive:
Bears 2nd round pick
S12 2nd round pick

Stan has to confirm and the trade is up for 24 hour peer review.

For a little elaboration, Upshaw and Aguayo are sign-and-trades and will count $6.2 mil post-trade against the cap.
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AI have won 1 SB and 3/20 SB reps have been AI teams.

I am not at all in favor of dead money forgiveness. I had to implement changes to clean up the league last season, and I only see bad things coming from promoting people to be lazy and sketchy.
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Only a few AI teams each season go beyond the user cap. I want to say that last season was just the Broncos and Redskins.
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I might make an executive decision to increase this season's salary cap to $160 mil unless people are vehemently opposed to that.

I will not guarantee it will be increased next season, but I want to point out that arguably the three best user teams (Cowboys, Dolphins, and Jags) will greatly benefit from this.
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I can consider going up to $159-160 mil next season. The in-game cap space is something like $204 mil, which is insane.

That being said, I do prefer forcing teams to make tough decisions and the well-off teams to spread their "wealth" around.
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The game could be recorrecting for an overall drop in skill level at a position. WRs, TEs, and Cs have seen the sharpest drops in talent league-wide on the offensive side of the ball.
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Cody11533 posted...

Started Beyond Good and Evil today. Played for a few hours, heading to the factory next.

Went in pretty blind and I'm enjoying myself. The setting and plot are really interesting. I'm also a fan of the camera. I've gotten quite a few photos of creatures while they are attacking Pey'j.

Yeah, normally I don't give a shit about games with a camera function/sidequest, but I always took a liking to BG&E's. Of course, it helps that I really like the game's flora and fauna and capturing their images provides truly helpful rewards.
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Monthly Progress
Nemo - Nee
Loathing - Unicorn, Ark
GoW II -
BG&E -

Nominations
Crispy - Yakuza, Full Throttle
KCF - Renegade Ops, Trine
Nee - Princess Remedy 1, Super Castlevania IV

Drawing on Sunday
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All UFA PMs except for the Seahawks should have gone out.
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Signing Your UFAs Rules

1. I will PM everyone their UFAs and the slash line (length/total/signing bonus) of their desired deal. I will also include and isolate any players who are either holding out or hate your team to where they will only sign with you if you place the franchise tag on them.

2. You will PM me back with the following format (using two players from my team as an example)

Re-signing:
SS Antoine Bethea 2 / $6.20 mil / $640k
or
SS Antoine Bethea 3 year default

Franchise Tag:
Nobody

Not re-signing:
LE Matt Roth

The deadline for signing your UFAs will be Wednesday, December 5th at 6 PM ET
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Unrestricted Free Agents (AKASigning Your Remaining Free Agents)

Any player of yours whose contract expired and was not part of the previous event will be included here. This is an extremely straightforward event. You either sign or you do not sign players, Those you do stay on your team, those who don't enter the free agent pool.

When you receive the PM with your slash lines, remember that those are not the deals you have to sign them to. With a few exceptions that I will lay out, you can sign anyone (pending the age/max length rule) to deals 1-7 years in length. If you wish to give a player a custom offer, we can bounce PMs off of each other for a while (remember that there is a deadline though and delay in response could be a day or longer). If you wish to offer someone a deal of a different length but do no want to bother with the financials, you can merely say you want to give X player the default deal for Y years.

There are only two wrinkles for this event. One is that a few players might hold out for better deals. I can confirm that two users have a holdout. What happens is that I will isolate them in the PM and tell you their base deal. If you elect not to sign them, they will stay on your team without playing a down for you until you trade them, release them, or give into their contract demands. Keep in mind that any guaranteed money still left on their contract (annual bonus) is transferred over to the new contract.

The second wrinkle is that some players hate your team to where they will only sign via the franchise tag, which is a one year deal that pays them the average of the Top 5 salaries at their position or 120% of what they made last season, whichever is higher. I will isolate those players and also tell you how much money that comes out to as of this moment. The franchise tag has only been used twice to my knowledge, so while I am not expecting anyone will use it, you never know.
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
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I was hoping to have both SSs on one-year contracts and potentially start Quudus to see how he would fare as the starter. Quudus has recorded at least one sack, FF, and FR in each season while Bethea seems to be a pure coverage guy. My passing D has been outstanding, so I can't complain too much, but Bethea was clearly the least impressive starter statistically last season for me.
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
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I confirm, but I do want people to note that I do own the Bills pick now. I proposed that trade while my trade with the Bills was still under peer review.

To help clear up the trade, the Wildcats receive Bell for their 3rd plus a few small trade downs (from their perspective) in the 2nd and 4th.

The 6th was a toss-in because I thought it was likely that I would have max draft picks after RFA.
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
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Another Trade!

49ers receive:
Lightning 1st round pick (18th overall)
Steelers 1st round pick (24th overall)
S12 Dolphins 5th round pick

Dolphins receive:
49ers 1st round pick (10th overall)
S12 49ers 3rd round pick
WR Tavon Austin

Trade is up for 24 hour peer review, and Scare needs to confirm.
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
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Allen is a Top-5 blocking TE and just went to the Broncos insane rushing attack. Looks like it will continue to be the Broncos, Jags, Dolphins, and maybe Jets in the AFC for another season.
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
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I was sure that you were going to match due to Parrish's regression, Banks aging, and other factors.
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
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No, also inform him of what PMs are and where to find them because he hasn't opened up the three that I sent him. Unless the rules have changed, that means I can't send him one for UFAs.
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
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I have no way of knowing how many AI teams were in on him, but Morris was the only player that multiple user teams were on. You all offered around the same annually, but one user offered 4 years, another 5 years, and the Rams 6.
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
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I will hopefully have the spreadsheet updated for tomorrow and it is within the realm of possibility that we begin the next event tomorrow as well.

At any rate, RFA is officially over.
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KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy
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