Franchise Tag: NFL vs FOF

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Obviously there are gameplay issues at work here, but I would love to see the Franchise Tag fleshed out more in FOF. But right now, the FOF franchise tag is an "exclusive rights" tag with no guaranteed money. The use is limited to the options available in the NFL, and it's implementation is incorrect (apparently).

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National Football League
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franchise_tag

That's a pretty informative article about how the franchise tag works. I think it would work well in FOF.

In the link, Top 5 salary's, exclusive and non-exclusive free agents are listed...

Every year each National Football League team is allowed to designate a player who is scheduled to become an unrestricted free agent as a franchise player. This designation is applied to a player through the use of the franchise tag. Each team has access each year to only one franchise tag (of either the exclusive or non-exclusive forms) or one transition tag. As a result, each team may only designate one player each year as that team's franchise player.
Usually designated for players of great skill or of high importance to the team, a franchise tag allows a team's manager the privilege of strategically retaining valuable free-agent players while seeking talent through the NFL draft or other acquisitions without exceeding the League's salary cap.
If the designated franchise player elects to play for the team that designated him with the franchise tag, and does not negotiate a contract with another team his one year salary is guaranteed.

There are two types of franchise tag designations: the exclusive rights franchise tag, and non-exclusive rights franchise tag:

• An "exclusive" franchise player must be offered a one-year contract for an amount equal to or greater than the average of the top five salaries at the player's position as of a date in April of the current year in which the tag will apply, or 120 percent of the player's previous year's salary, whichever is greater. Exclusive franchise players cannot negotiate with other teams.
• A "non-exclusive" franchise player must be offered a one-year contract for an amount equal to or greater than the average of the top five salaries at the player's position in the previous year, or 120 percent of the player's previous year's salary, whichever is greater. A non-exclusive franchise player may negotiate with other NFL teams, but if he signs an offer sheet from another team, the original team has a right to match the terms of that offer, or if it does not match the offer and thus loses the player, to receive two first-round draft picks as compensation.

[Tormaz]

I too would love to see this worked the same as the NFL. (just as it would be cool if we could offer up on RFA also)

The biggest thing I would want though is to see Tags - guaranteed money. Too many times I see people tag a guy and then just cut him when they can't find a deal for him.

[stevew]

Does FOF calculate the numbers the same way that the NFL does? In FOF, it's merely the top 5 annual salary amounts, whereas in the NFL, i believe it's cap hits(base salary, plus signing bonus)? Seems like we get the exclusive tag for the cost of the non-exclusive one. And that doesn't even factor in that the 120% rule is not used for the guys first tag. A common strategy seems to be to pay someone a huge salary one year in FA, and then to franchise the following.

[stevew]

Originally Posted by Tormaz

The biggest thing I would want though is to see Tags - guaranteed money. Too many times I see people tag a guy and then just cut him when they can't find a deal for him.

Well, the player has the option to sign his tender at any point in time(which the game doesn't do). But the team reserves the right to pull the tag as well re:Corey Simon. Unless that changed in the most recent CBA.