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Old 09-09-2010, 01:05 PM   #106
Ben E Lou
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To answer a question earlier, yes, it's just the one-time free-for-all. The reason for doing that as opposed to an initial 53-man draft is that in an initial draft in a fictional league, contracts are too generally too steep, and you have no control over how much is in the initial contract. I suspect that in a reduced cap environment, it would make things very problematic for the first several seasons. Doing it this way, we get to have complete control over the initial contracts.
..and this is a good example of what I meant by that statement.

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