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Working with the brainstorming going on here, and in the interest of making Free Agency "more fun" without making it unrealistic, something I think could add to the free agency period would be something similiar to TCY's "phone calls". But in FOF, these phonecalls would be used to give your team priority to players in Free Agency and give you the right to be part of a two-way bidding war. The "field" would then be allowed to counter any offer made by the "phone-call" bidder to the best offer would start a bidding contest.
How it could work?
At the beginning of FA, everyteam is given one "phone-call" to spend on an UFA. (to make it more fun, you could add bonus calls for playoff teams or teams that had a superior financial year.)
Players tagged with a phone call would only listen to your offer during the first round. When that round is complete, your offer is shown publicly and everybody is allowed to "outbid" that offer. (Just submit an offer and let the AI sort out the best offers.) If the offer is outbid, the bidding war is made public. The "phone-call" team can then counter in the next round, and the other winning bidder can counter that the following round, until the out-bidding ends and the player is signed.
If two or more teams use a "phone-call" on the same player, the players attributes such as "play for winner", "loyalty", and hometown distance (possibly) would break the conflict.
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