Alternative Proposal

As a competing proposal to the one offered by Mike and Ryan, I have the following two proposed changes which are similar in some ways to their idea and different in many other ways. Please comment.

1) Following the draft and entirely seperate from the money allotted for the auction, each team be allotted a budget for signing Free Agents during the season. If there is competition for signing a free agent, an auction for that player will take place. If there is no competition, the interested player merely forks over $1 in free agent money. The amount allotted to the free agent budget and the specifics for how this will work I will propose later if there is enough interest in this idea. The primary benefit of this change, in my eyes, is it puts league members on a more even footing for picking up free agents so the team that wants a player most (determined by how much they're willing to pay) gets him as opposed to just the players who sit by the computer watching sports news come over the wire.

2) Teams should be allowed to add auction money for the next year's auction to trade proposals for players. This will allow teams to mortgage their future somewhat for a better shot at winning this year while allowing the bottom teams to have a better shot and competing in the next year.