[Ben E Lou]

I agree albion, and would add that the big, big difference that we see in the current FOF MP environment from real life is the delta between offers. In real life, free agency has some of the draft element to it, in the sense that guys are "slotted" to a degree. They pretty much know that they're going to get between x and y amount. So when you hear a guy say "I will not play for Oakland no matter what," it really means, "I'm going to get a $1.5M-$2M bonus from someone, and I don't want that someone to be Oakland. I will not play for Oakland no matter what, but if Al Davis decides he wants to give me a $10M bonus, SURE!!!"

In real life, guys are deciding between a relatively narrow monetary delta. In FOF MP, we'd throw a $10M bonus at a marginal player without thinking twice about it. It's hard to even put the two side by side...