Defering draft class

[sapp2013]

Not sure I see the benefit here tbh.

For the player, they get fewer NSFL seasons and regress at the same time as they would have anyway.
For admin purposes, it complicates things like tracking what season a player regresses in (which has knock on effects elsewhere).
And if a player wanted to play DSFL for longer, they can just ask to be sent back down anyway...

Am I missing something?

A lower activity prospect can defer their draft class to show they are a higher earner and maybe get drafted higher than they would have the season prior.

Balancing out draft classes so we don't have 1 class of 80 and 2 classes of 20.

[37thchamber]

A lower activity prospect can defer their draft class to show they are a higher earner and maybe get drafted higher than they would have the season prior.

Balancing out draft classes so we don't have 1 class of 80 and 2 classes of 20.

But your draft position is essentially meaningless. You don't get more TPE or cash for being drafted higher. So... my point remains. I don't see the benefit. You trade some of your pre-regression time (in which you suggest they are playing catch up anyway) for a ... higher draft position? Sounds like a pretty bad trade to me.

And then altering the size of draft classes to balance them out doesn't have a net benefit either, as far as I can tell... given the other changes that would be required to facilitate it.

Thing is, I don't even have a problem with this idea. I just don't see how/why it helps anyone.

[sapp2013]

But your draft position is essentially meaningless. You don't get more TPE or cash for being drafted higher. So... my point remains. I don't see the benefit. You trade some of your pre-regression time (in which you suggest they are playing catch up anyway) for a ... higher draft position? Sounds like a pretty bad trade to me.

And then altering the size of draft classes to balance them out doesn't have a net benefit either, as far as I can tell... given the other changes that would be required to facilitate it.

Thing is, I don't even have a problem with this idea. I just don't see how/why it helps anyone.

Essentially, draft position doesn't matter once you are drafted. But it adds flavor to the league. This adds to what people can write about for media. It might not matter specifically to you, but it does matter to others. And for players that want to or know they will be playing in the dsfl anyways, why not have the chance for a higher draft position if it doesn't change anything else in the league? Or they realize that the outlaws don't have any picks this season, so they defer their draft class so as to maybe get drafted by the outlaws (psh, who wants to be drafted by the outlaws).

Or maybe a team trades up to #1oa only to find out that Bjorn has decided to defer his draft class. That would force teams to be more cautious moving up and down the draft board and allow for more off-season trades to happen.

[37thchamber]

None of this changes the fact that it's a lot of work for little to no gain.

My point about draft position was more about it literally having no effect on anything in the league ... it's literally meaningless in terms of the mechanics of the league. Sure it's nice to say "I went first overall" and its a cool bit of flavour, but you're talking about trading tangible disadvantages for an intangible advantage. That's why I don't think it's worthwhile.

Players who want to go to a specific team can already engineer that. We've seen it multiple times. This option doesn't really change anything there.

If there's a chance you trading for 1OA could bite you in the ass, couldn't that just as easily make trades *less* likely?

I dunno. I just think the idea needs reworking to be worthwhile. As it stands, it's an expensive way to add flavour to the league, and I don't think it's worth the effort from both a player standpoint and (perhaps more importantly) an administrative one.

[slothfacekilla]

Also wanted to throw out: there would be some trademark concerns regarding using actual colleges and their branding. It would be tough to argue monetary damages since NSFL isn't pay-to-win or something like that, and the risk would be low, but there would be risk involved.