(05-09-2018, 11:30 AM)Beaver Wrote:Yeah, I may be getting my sim league retirement rules mixed up here but Cushing will be retiring this offseason, right? While under the proposed rule if he was traded 1 day before his announcement he would be retiring in 2 offseasons so that he ends up playing a full season for his new team, right?
If so then anyone planning on retiring that's not on a contender could return assets for their team and farm an extra season's worth of stats by getting traded right before the announcement compared to if they just retired normally.
So for Sandoval, he would have to finish out this season (S7), and play next season (S8). Meaning he would only have 1 off-season with the team, S7 -> S8. I guess the potential for abuse is there, as he could in fact bank another season of stats, but that would still most likely burn bridges between GMs, making it harder for the Yeti GM (again, just the example) to complete trades with other teams.
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