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Old 04-29-2011, 11:27 AM   #1
QuikSand
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FOF 2007 - Highlander Challenge, Take Two

Highlander II

(Yes, the title is itself self-defeating…)

Okay, some time ago, I gave a run at a house rules challenge career, styled the Highlander Challenge. From the opening from that thread:

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The Highlander Challenge
It’s been a while since I played a public, documented, solo FOF career. I thought I would give it a shot once again. I will again make a try to come up with a set of rules that make the game a long-term challenge for me – what I want is for the game to be interesting to play, challenging to win, but allow me to play “all out” within the rules that I have adopted up front. You may have heard me refer to this as a holy grail… it’s tougher than it seems.

So, my current thinking is that I’ll try a set of rules where I am allowed to do lots of different things – but none of them more than once per season. Thus, the play-on-words title of the challenge, which I hope won’t be lost on quite everyone.

So, here are the limitations for the career. In any given season:
-there can be only one unrestricted free agent signed to a one-year contract
-there can be only one unrestricted free agent signed to a two-year contract
-there can be only one unrestricted free agent signed to a three-year contract
-there can be only one unrestricted free agent signed to a four-year contract
-there can be only one unrestricted free agent signed to a five-year contract
-there can be only one unrestricted free agent signed to a six-year contract
-there can be only one unrestricted free agent signed to a seven-year contract
-there can be only one year on any new offer made to a restricted free agent
-there can be only one renegotiation before the season starts
-there can be only one renegotiation toward the end of the season
-there can be only one trade, either within the current draft or AI-initiated

Yes, I include my own out-of-contract players among the limits for FA signees. I am also aware that the ability to sign contracts for longer than three years generally means committing either huge money or else stuffing huge backends to the deals forcing a release some way through – so in essence, it will be very difficult for me to keep players around in this career, I expect. That is absolutely by design – the worry I’m targeting here is that I generally find it far too easy to just re-sign lots and lots of decent role players for minsal or a bit more year after year – and all of my solo teams turn into cohesion monsters as a result.

So, basically – my rookie draftees are mine through their rookie contract and for whatever I can sign them to as restricted free agents – meaning that I can get an easy four years out of most of them who turn out to be worth keeping. Past that, I will have a pretty limited ability to keep players around.

I’m also limiting my ability to sign undrafted rookies here. I’ll have to bend these rules as I initially build a team (empty cupboard will demand it) and fill in with one year rookies, but my intention is to have these limits apply to those players too.

I gave that setup my usual run, built up a team, and then got bored (as always). But it wasn’t a totally value-less experience. Looking back, I think I had some take-aways worth reviving. So, without further ado, I’m going to make one major twist to these rules, retain the undercurrent of “one” and try something like this again. Here’s the new set of rules:
In any given season:

-there can be only one year on any new offer made to a restricted free agent
-there can be only one renegotiation on my terms
-there can be only one renegotiation on the player’s terms
-there can be only one trade, either within the current draft or AI-initiated
-there can be only one free agent offer outstanding at any time

So, the last rule is the main idea. I won’t sign any players other than during the 16 stages of free agency, and when doing so I am (hopefully) going to have to make some real prioritization decisions. By limiting renegotiations, I think I’m going to have to get value out of pretty much every draft pick.

Here’s my thinking on math. In every season, I get 5 late round draft picks who will essentially sign 3 year deals and then get a free 1-yr RFA extension. That’s a rotating battery of 20 players. So from our top 2 draft picks each season plus whatever handful of free agent signings we collect, we need to occupy another 30 or so roster slots. That seems like it’s manageable – if I’m mostly signing guys to 3yr contracts, you might need something like 10 guys a year. With 16 stages of free agency, I think that sounds manageable. All this is subject to future tweaking if it turns out I simply cannot field a legal roster, or get pushed to ridiculous things simply by the need to accumulate bodies.

So, here’s the deal. I’m not going to be building a new team here – which is my usual m.o. for this sort of thing. Rather, I am going to try to take an already mature team that I previously built, and try to use these rules to create a challenging environment to maintain the established team. This is the usual weak point in my dynasty threads – no matter how good the rules are, I always enjoy building a roster and team from nearly nothing. What I lose interest in is the maintenance of the established team. So I’m going to try and start at that point in this case, and see if the new rules accomplish my intended goal – to keep this interesting.

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Old 04-29-2011, 11:30 AM   #2
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The Team
I’m not going to belabor this unreasonably, but here’s a quick catch up on where this franchise stands. This league started as the 2010 default NFL files, as I was trying (fruitlessly) to get my younger brother interested in this game when we were together last year. I recently picked it up for this purpose, and played forward a bit. The last couple of years I have begun to use the 1-FA-at-a-time limitation, but not as a coherent set of real house rules.

Here’s how the team has progressed thus far, all fairly standard:
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Year Team Eval Perf Diff Proft FrVal Record Playoffs 2019 CLE 84 90 73 85 75 14-3-0 Division Final 2018 CLE 80 83 74 83 72 14-5-0 Conference Champion 2017 CLE 79 90 74 78 67 16-2-0 Conference Final 2016 CLE 72 74 76 74 64 14-6-0 Conference Champion 2015 CLE 76 86 76 77 55 12-5-0 Division Final 2014 CLE 69 52 76 82 55 8-8-0 None 2013 CLE 65 28 75 87 57 6-10-0 None 2012 CLE 71 60 77 82 57 10-6-0 None 2011 CLE 61 34 76 76 59 6-9-1 None 2010 CLE 62 45 75 71 63 8-8-0 None 2009 CLE 53 5 75 75 67 4-12-0 None

All very familiar, a few seasons as a middling contender, and then we emerge as a power team for good. The last 5 years I think we have earned 3 #1 seeds, but have yet to cash it all in for a ring. Also as usual for my teams, we are at this point very high in cohesion and good chemistry as well.

Here’s the current roster ratings, sorted by current rating to give you an idea of where our real talent lies:

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Cleveland Browns Roster, Scout Overview Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct Ballard, Grady 19 RDE RDE 7 72 72 4 yrs ##Lyons, Seth 35 SS 8 72 72 2 yrs Porter, Roman 28 LCB LCB 5 70 70 2 yrs Cole, Rico 8 FL FL 6 65 65 4 yrs Fields, Adam 97 LDE LDE 10 62 62 3 yrs %%Pearson, Luther 67 RT 4 56 56 1 yr. Church, Lorenzo 79 LT LT 3 56 56 1 yr. Manley, Bennie 4 K 4 54 54 1 yr. Scott, Pete 38 RCB RCB 6 54 54 3 yrs Long, Johnny 50 SILB SILB 5 53 53 5 yrs Cassidy, Adrian 60 RG RG 9 53 53 2 yrs Young, Warren 56 C C 3 52 52 1 yr. McGee, Bruce 73 LG LG 6 52 52 4 yrs Nixon, Marc 80 TE TE 5 50 50 2 yrs DeVore, Albert 93 WLB WLB 3 50 50 2 yrs Wolfe, Clyde 82 FL 5 49 49 4 yrs Jarvis, Herman 10 RB RB 2 45 45 3 yrs Burton, Darryl 47 P 2 45 45 2 yrs Rayburn, Kerry 92 NT NT 9 45 45 1 yr. %%Carter, Mack 41 FS 4 44 44 3 yrs Lane, Kendrick 81 SE SE 4 44 44 3 yrs Griffith, Steven 20 SE 9 43 43 1 yr. Mieske, Kris 30 FS SS 9 43 43 3 yrs Clancy, Bob 45 RCB 8 42 42 1 yr. Everett, Nathan 54 WLB 5 41 41 2 yrs Seiferling, Monty 98 LDE 7 40 40 2 yrs Bernal, Richard 83 FL 7 39 39 3 yrs Sturch, Gus 13 QB QB 10 38 38 4 yrs Ackerman, Broderick 37 FB FB 5 38 38 1 yr. Russell, Zach 40 RB 8 38 38 2 yrs Batson, Chester 51 C 10 38 38 3 yrs Sanders, Darrin 77 RDE 8 38 38 2 yrs McElroy, Winston 58 WILB WILB 4 37 45 1 yr. Hazeltine, Jorge 69 LG 6 37 37 3 yrs Ferguson, D'Brickashaw 78 LT RT 14 37 37 1 yr. Owens, Karl 88 TE 4 36 36 2 yrs Glenn, Jerald 95 NT 1 36 56 4 yrs Porras, Percy 29 RB 5 35 35 1 yr. Grauer, Juan 39 SLB SLB 1 33 40 3 yrs Manusky, Jerry 49 FS FS 10 33 33 2 yrs Christy, Spencer 94 NT 2 32 48 2 yrs Harmon, Gilbert 99 LDE 1 28 38 4 yrs Emanuel, Walter 91 SILB 2 26 26 3 yrs Schwartz, Carl 1 QB 3 25 39 1 yr. ##Hill, Grant 15 TE 2 25 33 3 yrs Ross, Gene 52 SLB 8 24 24 1 yr. Muskie, Grady 31 SE 1 23 33 4 yrs ##Sweeney, Mitchell 3 QB 4 22 25 2 yrs Roosevelt, Tom 43 FS 1 22 34 3 yrs Clayton, Winston 27 LCB 9 21 21 1 yr. ##Spatz, Richie 90 RDE 1 16 48 3 yrs Abraham, Melvin 14 QB 1 15 38 3 yrs ##Elliott, Troy 61 LT 9 9 9 2 yrs ##Clemons, Chris 36 FL 11 8 18 2 yrs $$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive, ** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR. Players Under Contract: 54 Inactive: 6 On Active Roster: 46 Salary Cap: $154,000,000 Cap Room: $25,200,000 Maximum for New Player: $25,760,000 Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $650,000 Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $1,290,000 Cap Room Required Next Year: $105,820,000

Basically, we have a short list of true star caliber players here. RDE Grady Ballard is actually putting up big numbers while playing the true RDE slot in our 3-4 (no mean feat), and his counterpart Adam Fields is occasionally a dominant pass rusher from the left side. Both were first round picks, and both will likely play here until they fade away.

The rest of the defense is pretty pedestrian. 70/70 CB Roman Porter (1.18) is very solid in bars but doesn’t put up big stats, 72/72 SS Seth Lyons (1.13) is very good, and the rest of our DB are basically role player types (I have had two massive VSOD busts at the LB position, and have yet to field even an average-looking group there). Regardless, we tend to have a very good defense by the numbers, as our python style seems to work well.

On offense, I have tried to make this a run-first team, thinking this could be the next frontier for my personal FOF future. 8th year RB Zach Russell is a former workhorse (9600 carries on 4.5 ypc for us) who is now the balanced-skill change-of-pace behind our supposed big-hitter RB Herman Jarvis (1.13). Jarvis is only getting us 4 ypc in his first two years, but we are playing from ahead a lot and I figure we’re running into a lot of run expectations. At some point, I’d like to fiddle with formations and gameplanning to try to develop a more serious running game, perhaps an attachment to this team will foster that. Right now we are not really doing much that’s creative – just running a lot and throwing mostly short stuff.

In the air game, we have a good-enough guy at QB in 38/38 Gus Sturch (2.5), who is now a cohesion plus and a decent short game type (48 in short passing, 66 in accuracy). I have a younger QB who is blooming in 25/39 Carl Schwartz (5.2, ran a sub-4.4 40 dash) and who might be a better play long term, but since we are winning with Sturch I have been reluctant to make a big change there.

At WR, we have only two guys of note. 65/65 Rico Cole (1.10) is our main duty guy, decent in everything, but has not really taken off – career ypc of only 8.2 is underwhelming, and we don’t throw enough to get him big gross numbers (only one 1,000 yard season). 44/44 Kendrick Lane (7.29) has moved in as our other starter, and is a mostly BPR guy, which is just being laid bare as the whole key to the corrent passing game in FOF. So, he’s turning out to be pretty good, despite having no other skill but running in a straight line. YPT over 9 the last two season as a starter, but he’ll never catch more than 50 balls I guess, unless we really change the approach here.

The OL is solid, but not worth detailing here. Mostly run-first guys, pretty good chemistry.

So… we are a very solid SP team. Nothing remotely BEL-worthy of course, but interesting to play so far. I actually enjoy playing with a team that wins in a fashion other than 400 yards passing, so watching this team run the ball 40 times a game and end up with the most effective pass defense in the league and a top seed most years is kinda cool. I would like it very much if at some point I could field a successful MP FOF team with this philosophy.

Here’s the 2019 Team Summary screen, which is always a pretty nice snapshot to present for quick familiarity:
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Front Office Football 2007 2019 Summary for Cleveland Browns Year 2019 Record 14-3 Winning Pct. .823 All-Time 106-69-1 Winning Pct. .605 Playoffs 6-5 Playoff Visits 5 Bowl Wins 0 Head Coach Na'il Diggs Record 78-29 Winning Pct. .728 Off. Coord. V. Ellison Def. Coord. M. McWilliams Cleveland Browns Team Rank Rushes per Game 33.7 1 Rushing Yards 136.3 4 Yards Per Carry 4.05 21 Pass Attempts 26.3 32 Completions 16.1 32 Completion Pct. 61.3 15 Passing Yards 203.0 27 Yards Per Attempt 7.71 3 Yards Per Catch 12.59 1 Total Yardage Gained 331.0 14 3rd Down Conversions 39.1 8 Points Per Game 24.9 4 Pass Rush Pct. 26.2 1 Pass Defense Pct. 69.2 2 Turnovers 22 14 Turnover Margin +7 7 (T) Opponents Team Rank Rushes per Game 24.5 6 (T) Rushing Yards 107.2 13 Yards Per Carry 4.38 26 Pass Attempts 35.8 24 Completions 17.6 1 Completion Pct. 49.3 1 Passing Yards 184.1 2 Yards Per Attempt 5.15 1 Yards Per Catch 10.45 11 Total Yardage Gained 276.0 2 3rd Down Conversions 31.5 4 (T) Points Per Game 13.7 2 Pass Rush Pct. 17.0 5 (T) Pass Defense Pct. 57.4 26 Turnovers 29 8 Week Team Versus Oppnt 1 27 at BAL 7 2 30 at SFO 7 3 17 SDO 13 4 17 at BUF 14 5 37 PIT 17 6 41 MIA 14 7 23 NYJ 16 8 10 at NED 6 9 34 BAL 6 11 20 at CIN 3 12 3 at STL 27 13 38 at HOU 7 14 20 SEA 14 15 30 CIN 14 16 28 ARI 31 17 24 at PIT 23 $$CS 17 SDO 20 Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate 13 G. Sturch QB 400 249 3131 7.83 27 11 97.6 **Team --- 421 258 3248 7.71 27 13 93.8 $$Opp --- 572 282 2946 5.15 14 15 61.8 Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Fum 10 H. Jarvis RB 271 1028 3.79 6 10 40 Z. Russell RB 204 922 4.52 5 8 13 G. Sturch QB 60 220 3.67 2 4 **Team --- 539 2181 4.05 13 25 $$Opp --- 392 1715 4.38 10 28 Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD 8 R. Cole WR 114 56 753 13.45 6.61 4 5 80 M. Nixon TE 61 45 442 9.82 7.25 2 5 82 C. Wolfe WR 52 35 636 18.17 12.23 2 8 81 K. Lane WR 60 35 547 15.63 9.12 3 2 40 Z. Russell RB 35 22 181 8.23 5.17 2 3 20 S. Griffith WR 37 21 208 9.90 5.62 4 2 Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct 50 J. Long ILB 70 28 0.0 0 2 4 77.4 93 A. DeVore OLB 70 24 11.0 7 0 2 74.5 30 K. Mieske S 62 16 0.0 0 0 11 79.6 35 S. Lyons S 59 22 1.0 0 2 21 89.4 19 G. Ballard DE 49 15 9.5 35 0 1 82.5 38 P. Scott CB 42 18 0.0 0 3 11 82.3 28 R. Porter CB 37 11 0.0 0 3 10 84.2 27 W. Clayton CB 35 3 0.0 0 0 1 70.7 58 W. McElroy ILB 29 2 0.0 0 0 0 77.5 92 K. Rayburn DT 27 14 3.5 7 0 0 81.8 45 B. Clancy CB 26 10 0.0 0 3 7 85.0 49 J. Manusky S 24 10 0.0 0 0 3 79.4 97 A. Fields DE 22 12 1.0 26 0 1 82.7 54 N. Everett OLB 21 8 1.0 4 1 0 74.4 91 W. Emanuel ILB 21 6 0.0 0 1 1 84.1 43 T. Roosevelt S 16 3 0.0 0 0 1 78.8

By the way, I have no real explanation for LB DeVore gathering sacks like that. He’s the weakside guy, so that’s the simple version, but he only posted a PR% of 4.1, so the 11 sacks was still a total anomaly. He’s a decent player, good pass rushing bars, but nothing I’m building around I assure you (he actually was a busted 1st round pick of mine that I didn’t bother signing, then redrafted him the following season in round three). Basically, I figure the assignment of 11 sacks to the lame WLB and only 1 to the good LDE is just some sort of quirky clerical error, and that makes more football sense than any other explanation I’ve got.

The Holy Grail of FOF house rules is, for me, to create a set of rules that I can put in place, and then play absolutely “all out” within them and have a long term enjoyable challenge. With the Highlander roster building rules above, and perhaps the implied constraints of remaining a run-first team, I’m hoping that it remains fun to run this team, even though the building is essentially behind us at this point.
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Old 04-30-2011, 10:18 AM   #3
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Join Date: Oct 2000
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2020
So, I’ll kick off the 2020 season. I really don’t intend to detail a whole lot of offseason stuff here. Since most of my decision slots are just one-offs, I think it will be a fairly easy grid for each offseason – I’ll try to write things up that way, and see if it flows well enough. Probably add some season-ending commentary or something, that’s about it.

Season Reset – 2020
Retirements: WR Steven Griffin (faded former starter), T D’Brickashaw Ferguson (injury fill-in)
Roster situation: 40 signed, 3 RFAs, $48m cap room (32%)
Draft picks: 8 total, our 7 plus 3.19 from trading away angry backup QB last season
Top priorities: LB, OT, CB, TE



Stg FA Pursued Terms Notes

1.2 RT Luther Pearson 3/6.9 CB Clancy best guy left open for now
1.3
1.4 Pearson re-signs, CHI after DT Rayburn
1.5 DT Kerry Rayburn 3/3.3 SFO signs K Manley, MIA signs CB Clancy
1.6 RB Percy Porras 3/min lock up affinity leader
1.7 LB Gene Ross 3/min cohesion and affinity plus
1.8 CB W Clayton 3/min ST guy, cohesion and affinity
1.9 FB B Ackerman 3/min love skill set, cohesion plus
1.10 OLB JR Matthews 4/24 injury risk, quality guy, all base sal
1.11 FS Terry Ferguson 3/2.4 great PR, zone guy, affinity, good depth
1.12 ILB Winston McElroy 3/2.9 solid run stopper, affinity, cohesion


Pick Pos Name Adj 4TBAJP Dev O/U Pre Post Notes

1.18 WR Darnell Fiedler 6.1 +!!! ! 8% dni 25/52 26/59 ran 4.39/6.73, wow
2.30 FB Kenneth Norton 5.0 ++++++ 26% dni 27/65 31/66 possible TE move
3.19 traded to JAX to move up in round one
3.30 traded to JAX to move up in round one
4.30 C Richard Tapp 4.3 !! + 9% dni 13/64 15/53 run-bl, ran 4.96
5.30 K Andy Ford 3.3 - +++ 51% dni 32/58 30/50 got greedy, lost CB in 6th
6.30 RT Kelly Yardley 4.3 !+--- 23% dni 13/42 18/41 4.87 dash wow
7.30 WR Kenneth Chandler 4.0 – 31% dni 18/47 19/39 nice bars, ST, affinty


Stg FA Pursued Terms Notes Signed

2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4
2.5


Offseason Commentary:

Coming off a year where I didn't restrict my extensions and re-signings, we had more players than we really needed. I plan to weed out some chaff after camp, but this gives us some latitude to move up in the draft as well, not necessarily needing 8 picks. I covet a top CB, try to trade up to pick 1.11, but can't get it done. My target guy goes at pick 13 to Detroit, and I now am focusing on an undeveloped 4-red WR, who looks really good as well. Moving from 30 to 18 costs us our two third rounders, but that's fine by me, I think. Taking the WR here is a bald BPA play, and contrary to the run-and-defense approach, but this is a guy who probably goes at pick 1.3 or so in a serious league – hard to pass up the value just to take the best LB available. I make a gaffe later, thinking a CB I liked would last forever, and missing him to inexplicably take a kicker in round 5.

And in an interesting twist:
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From: The League Office
The league office has decided to suspend Adam Fields of Cleveland for the 2020 season.
Fields tested positive for alcohol use, in violation of the league's strict anti-drug policy.

So, that's something I wasn't planning for. We're deep with mediocre DE, so I don't think it will be a killer, but the bookends there were one thing I felt I could count on from this team. Ouch.

I move FB Norton to TE, where he charts at 27/65 pre-camp. And we are at 58 players already, leaving little reason to pursue more free agents other than just to see what they might be able to do in camp. I decide that to partially offset the advantage opf carrying over so many pre-extended contracts, I'm not going to pursue anyone in late free agency, and will just carry these 58 guys into training camp. Slight opportunity lost now, and this might accelerate the fill-the-roster challenge that I am still hoping for eventually.

2020 Season Snapshot
Roster Rating: 74
Cohesion: 72-100(92)-92-98
AffIndex: 88
Last Year's Results: 14-2, #1 seed, lost in divisional game
Goal for Season: #1 seed and champs
Keys to Success: Maintain pass pressure, turnovers, run 150+/gm

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2020 Summary for Cleveland Browns Year 2020 Record 14-2 Winning Pct. .875 All-Time 120-71-1 Winning Pct. .627 Playoffs 6-5 Playoff Visits 6 Bowl Wins 0 Head Coach Na'il Diggs Record 92-31 Winning Pct. .747 Off. Coord. V. Ellison Def. Coord. M. McWilliams Cleveland Browns Team Rank Rushes per Game 33.0 2 Rushing Yards 122.9 10 Yards Per Carry 3.73 28 Pass Attempts 27.8 29 Completions 17.6 30 Completion Pct. 63.5 13 Passing Yards 203.9 23 Yards Per Attempt 7.35 4 Yards Per Catch 11.57 3 (T) Total Yardage Gained 317.2 20 3rd Down Conversions 41.0 8 Points Per Game 24.3 4 Pass Rush Pct. 24.8 2 Pass Defense Pct. 78.8 1 Turnovers 14 3 Turnover Margin +12 2 (T) Opponents Team Rank Rushes per Game 25.7 9 Rushing Yards 124.5 24 Yards Per Carry 4.85 32 Pass Attempts 36.4 26 Completions 18.0 4 (T) Completion Pct. 49.4 1 Passing Yards 173.4 3 Yards Per Attempt 4.76 1 Yards Per Catch 9.63 1 Total Yardage Gained 286.0 3 3rd Down Conversions 32.3 2 Points Per Game 12.8 1 Pass Rush Pct. 17.5 8 Pass Defense Pct. 44.6 12 Turnovers 26 9 (T) Week Team Versus Oppnt 1 27 CIN 10 2 24 at WAS 0 3 27 DEN 0 4 16 TEN 10 5 20 at JAX 24 6 19 at HOU 9 7 16 BAL 22 8 37 IND 7 9 12 at PIT 9 11 20 at CIN 10 12 33 at PHI 13 13 27 at NYJ 23 14 30 NYK 17 15 29 PIT 17 16 31 DAL 17 17 20 at BAL 17 Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate 13 G. Sturch QB 415 260 3010 7.25 20 7 93.5 **Team --- 444 282 3262 7.35 21 7 94.8 $$Opp --- 583 288 2774 4.76 11 17 57.2 Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Fum 10 H. Jarvis RB 270 971 3.60 5 5 40 Z. Russell RB 208 787 3.78 7 5 13 G. Sturch QB 43 195 4.53 0 5 **Team --- 528 1967 3.73 12 18 $$Opp --- 411 1992 4.85 10 19 Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD 8 R. Cole WR 117 75 1067 14.23 9.12 6 6 81 K. Lane WR 70 41 603 14.71 8.61 5 2 40 Z. Russell RB 52 39 245 6.28 4.71 4 5 18 D. Fiedler WR 59 33 316 9.58 5.36 4 1 80 M. Nixon TE 48 30 292 9.73 6.08 1 1 82 C. Wolfe WR 40 24 388 16.17 9.70 2 2 Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct 35 S. Lyons S 95 17 0.0 0 5 16 86.0 50 J. Long ILB 81 28 0.0 1 2 9 78.5 93 A. DeVore OLB 59 20 4.5 10 0 9 80.0 38 P. Scott CB 54 17 0.0 0 3 11 82.3 41 M. Carter S 48 18 0.0 0 1 18 84.9 28 R. Porter CB 31 6 0.0 0 2 9 83.6 27 W. Clayton CB 28 10 0.0 0 1 1 79.9 77 D. Sanders DE 28 5 7.0 8 0 1 81.3 33 T. Ferguson S 27 19 0.0 0 0 10 83.4 59 J. Matthews OLB 25 3 1.0 0 1 2 77.6 94 S. Christy DT 25 9 2.0 7 1 1 83.1 30 K. Mieske CB 24 8 0.5 0 0 1 77.7 19 G. Ballard DE 24 7 10.0 20 0 1 82.8 58 W. McElroy ILB 24 11 0.0 0 0 0 76.5 91 W. Emanuel ILB 23 5 0.0 0 0 1 75.5 43 T. Roosevelt S 21 11 0.0 0 0 1 75.5 52 G. Ross OLB 19 3 0.0 2 1 3 81.2 95 J. Glenn DT 19 13 3.0 13 0 0 82.1 92 K. Rayburn DT 18 3 3.5 9 0 0 81.2

Well, the running game wasn't what I had hoped for, but we accomplished the true goal of the regular season – we're the #1 seed again. DE Ballard was having a great year at LDE, but after 9 games came down with impaired vision, and the dreaded out-unknown, and is still sidelined. That our defense was still this great without both our top pass rushers for most of the year suggests we have things clicking nicely over there. Our pass attack remains efficient, and we posted Cole's first 1,000 yard season.

Our 205 points allowed is obviously league best, as is our +183 points margin. We ought to be the favorites to win it all, on paper.
So... of course, we're one and out in the postseason, losing in our opener to 9-7 Buffalo on an overtime field goal. So, that's that.

Requested Reneg: CB Porter, 5/48(15)
Open Reneg: S Lyons, 4/28(9)
Trade: trade up from 1.30 to 1.18

Last edited by QuikSand : 04-30-2011 at 10:19 AM.
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Old 05-01-2011, 03:29 PM   #4
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Annapolis, Md
2021
Season Reset – 2020
Retirements: none (wow)
Roster situation: 38 signed, 2 RFAs, $44m cap room (29%)
Draft picks: our 7 at slot 30
Top priorities: LB, CB, DE

Free agent overview:
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Cleveland Browns Roster, Scout Overview Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct Church, Lorenzo 79 LT 5 58 58 --- Young, Warren 56 C 5 53 53 --- Nixon, Marc 80 TE 7 50 50 --- DeVore, Albert 93 WLB 5 48 48 --- Cassidy, Adrian 60 RG 11 46 46 --- Burton, Darryl 47 P 4 42 42 --- Seiferling, Monty 98 LDE 9 39 39 --- Sanders, Darrin 77 RDE 10 38 38 --- Christy, Spencer 94 NT 4 37 49 --- Owens, Karl 88 TE 6 35 35 --- Russell, Zach 40 RB 10 34 34 --- Schwartz, Carl 1 QB 5 29 39 --- Manusky, Jerry 49 FS 12 28 28 --- Sweeney, Mitchell 3 QB 6 24 24 --- Clemons, Chris 36 FL 13 7 15 ---
I don't really know who in this crop will get pursued by other teams, but my own needs probably dictate that we pursue our offensive linemen, in order probably T Church and then C Young,both of whom wanted long term RFA deals last year but I had to offer only one season due to my rules.
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Old 05-01-2011, 03:29 PM   #5
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Stg FA Pursued Terms Notes

1.2 C Young 3/7.2 no bidders on any other CLE players yet
1.3
1.4 offers in on TE Nixon, G Cassidy
1.5 G Cassidy to SFO
1.6 C Young finally re-signs here
1.7 TE Nixon 3/min trying to outbid GBY
1.8 TE Nixon re-signs here
1.9 T Church 6/36 S Manusky signed by HOU (?!?)
1.10 QB Schwartz 3/min
1.11 DE Seiferling 3/4.5
1.12 RB Russell 3/min fading, but value to us


Pick Pos Name Adj 4TBAJP Dev O/U Pre Post Notes

1.30 DE Tim Newton 5.8 ! !-- 54% dni 47/63 50/60 4.61 dash, can't pass up
2.30 RG Robert Starnes 5.1 ! + 43% dni 12/44 15/42 4.95 dash, need, aff
3.30 DE Cornelius Hernandez 5.2 ++ 25% VU 17/41 20/42 scout rec, affinity
4.30 QB Brian Murray 5.7 ~+~~~+ 23% HTR 9/52 11/43 top guy on board, 3xAff
5.30 RB Kelly Brennan 3.6 ---+ 39% VO 19/32 28/41 End/Elus combo, aff
6.30 CB Roger Slay 4.1 + – 25% VO 18/54 19/46 Coverage bars for depth
7.30 CB Victor Carr 3.8 -+--- 53% VO 16/44 17/38 Coverage bars for depth

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Stg FA Pursued Terms Notes [u]
2.1 WR Clemons 3/min affinity gimp, signs immediately
2.2 LB DeVore 5/20 need to outbid NO now, DE Sanders also getting bid
2.3 RG Christian Durham 4/14 aff add to OL, all base salary, 3rd yr guy 59/59
2.4 QB Mitchell Sweeney 3/min 3xAff, retail guy for cohesion I guess
2.5 TE Karl Owens 3/min Aff, cohesion, versatile ST and reserve guy


Requested Reneg: WR Kendrick Lane, 5/22
Open Reneg: WR Rico Cole (holdout)
Trade:

Offseason Commentary:

This was probably the most uninspiring draft I have had in a long time. DE Newton looks like a one-trick pass rusher (no major problem with that) but I had hoped to land a good-looking affinity FB/TE guy in round two, and missed. After that, nothing of real interest...was actually tedious just to go through. Committing to affinity does that sometimes, and since I hope/expect to carry all these draft picks for 4 years under these rules, I'm figuring cohesion and chemistry will need to aid me.

(training camp run)

Okay, we get a VSOL out of the blue for RB Kelly Brennan, which should give us some flexibility. He gained in weird places (big time KR now, which is nice) but his overall rating will overstate his actual utility as a RB. Right now, Jarvis and Russell are both rated 42/42, and now Brennan at 28/41. In time, this could be trouble, as I don't expect Brennan (zero brk spd, and zero hole rec) to actually be productive carrying the ball.

Since I also let the staff set the depth chart, I might need 4 QB for the foreseeable future, as Schwartz is up to 29/35, and Sturch is only 32/32. If I want my experienced starter to take the snaps, I may have to deactivate Schwartz (who actually may be the better option, it's just tough to bench the bye-week-team starter.
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Old 05-01-2011, 03:30 PM   #6
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2021 Season Snapshot
Roster Rating: 52 (but t12th – watch out for Detroit)
Cohesion: 78-100(96)-92-97
AffIndex: 97
Last Year's Results: 14-2, #1 seed, lost in divisional game
Goal for Season: #1 seed and champs
Keys to Success: Maintain pass pressure, turnovers, run 150+/gm
Yes, the summary is basically the same as last season. If we end up a power team in the regular season and then fizzle in the playoffs once more, I might shake things up (like at QB). But for now, we just hope that this team remains a “contender” and eventually cashes in its chips.
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2021 Summary for Cleveland Browns Year 2021 Record 10-7 Winning Pct. .588 All-Time 130-77-1 Winning Pct. .627 Playoffs 6-7 Playoff Visits 7 Bowl Wins 0 Head Coach Na'il Diggs Record 102-39 Winning Pct. .723 Off. Coord. V. Ellison Def. Coord. M. McWilliams Cleveland Browns Team Rank Rushes per Game 32.7 1 Rushing Yards 140.9 3 Yards Per Carry 4.31 14 Pass Attempts 27.8 32 Completions 18.7 30 (T) Completion Pct. 67.2 3 Passing Yards 233.3 11 Yards Per Attempt 8.39 1 Yards Per Catch 12.48 1 Total Yardage Gained 361.6 5 3rd Down Conversions 42.3 4 Points Per Game 26.9 3 Pass Rush Pct. 25.0 1 Pass Defense Pct. 66.0 1 Turnovers 19 9 (T) Turnover Margin +3 13 (T) Opponents Team Rank Rushes per Game 26.3 14 Rushing Yards 141.3 28 (T) Yards Per Carry 5.37 32 Pass Attempts 31.6 10 Completions 16.6 1 Completion Pct. 52.7 1 Passing Yards 177.2 1 Yards Per Attempt 5.61 1 Yards Per Catch 10.66 17 Total Yardage Gained 305.9 10 3rd Down Conversions 33.7 8 Points Per Game 18.0 11 Pass Rush Pct. 18.3 13 (T) Pass Defense Pct. 33.8 3 Turnovers 22 19 (T) Week Team Versus Oppnt 1 24 at PIT 27 2 45 MIN 10 3 14 at JAX 27 5 48 DEN 14 6 28 OAK 13 7 14 at SDO 17 8 24 at KCY 19 9 34 BAL 24 10 24 PIT 9 11 13 CIN 6 12 34 at CHI 20 13 31 NYJ 3 14 23 at DET 27 15 17 at BAL 24 16 30 GBY 14 17 27 at CIN 34 $$WC 9 at BUF 27 Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate 13 G. Sturch QB 426 287 3575 8.39 30 10 106.9 **Team --- 445 299 3733 8.39 32 10 107.6 $$Opp --- 505 266 2835 5.61 19 13 71.2 Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Fum 40 Z. Russell RB 295 1299 4.40 8 6 10 H. Jarvis RB 149 582 3.91 3 4 13 G. Sturch QB 61 240 3.93 2 7 **Team --- 523 2254 4.31 13 24 $$Opp --- 421 2261 5.37 12 21 Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD 8 R. Cole WR 114 77 980 12.73 8.60 4 11 18 D. Fiedler WR 101 62 963 15.53 9.53 4 7 40 Z. Russell RB 54 41 364 8.88 6.74 0 4 48 K. Norton TE 38 23 192 8.35 5.05 3 1 81 K. Lane WR 28 22 391 17.77 13.96 0 3 82 C. Wolfe WR 35 18 233 12.94 6.66 6 2 80 M. Nixon TE 21 17 219 12.88 10.43 1 1 37 B. Ackerman FB 17 16 187 11.69 11.00 1 1 Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct 35 S. Lyons S 93 37 0.0 1 1 12 81.4 50 J. Long ILB 66 19 0.5 1 0 4 76.2 28 R. Porter CB 59 21 0.0 1 3 17 84.1 93 A. DeVore OLB 49 18 4.0 7 1 7 81.4 38 P. Scott CB 48 17 1.0 0 3 6 79.6 33 T. Ferguson S 47 9 0.0 0 3 6 82.5 41 M. Carter S 47 11 0.0 0 1 10 81.3 19 G. Ballard DE 45 14 11.5 26 0 0 81.2 46 R. Slay CB 38 14 0.0 0 0 1 76.0 58 W. McElroy ILB 28 6 0.0 0 0 1 77.0 91 W. Emanuel ILB 27 10 0.0 0 1 1 75.9 43 T. Roosevelt S 26 3 0.0 0 0 0 76.1 95 J. Glenn DT 21 10 4.0 16 0 0 81.0 97 A. Fields DE 17 9 2.5 11 0 1 82.8 94 S. Christy DT 17 9 1.5 8 0 0 82.5 49 T. Newton DE 16 7 7.0 14 0 0 82.0
Well, give our hopes, I wasn't happy at 0-1, 1-2, nor 3-3. Nor 10-6. But we still make the playoffs, and on paper look like a fairly tough out.

However, Buffalo wraps us up with another one-and-out postseason, and it may be time to take a look around a bit.

On offense, Storch actually posted his best season by far, 8.4-30-10. Zach Russell oddly regained his starting job and again posted awfully solid numbers on 4.4 ypc. And young WR Fiedler looks like he'll do awfully well for us in time, posting better than 9 ypc in year two – great sign there.

Basically, the defense posted the measurables I wanted also – tops in both PR% and PD%, and best in the league in ypa allowed. DE Newton, by the way, ends the season rated 100 and 98 in pass rushing bars, he could be a terror as soon as next season. Hmmm... plus 142 in points, and basically all the stats I covet. So, why were we only 10-7 again? Bad dice rolls, mostly?

Anyway, moving on...
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Old 05-01-2011, 03:33 PM   #7
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By the way, I definitely need to make at least pone change to the rules here. Maybe this:

-there can be only one new non-rookie player added in late free agency

Just too many quality 3rd and 4th year guys out there (plus cut veterans) to play that segment of the season "wide open." I landed a need player last year, but deferred on signing any of 3-4 other impact players who surely would have accepted cam friendly deals by stage 2:3 or so. FOF handles this situation poorly, I need a rule to limit it, I think.

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Old 05-02-2011, 05:30 PM   #8
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I think I am also going to do away with renegotiations altogether. Just don't think this is tough enough otherwise.
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Old 05-04-2011, 10:38 AM   #9
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Possibly dead. Two boring drafts in a row, plus a general lack of urgency or excitement may have coupled with a somewhat busy schedule to doom this.

Placeholder thoughts, if so:
-I like the one-at-a-time idea in general
-Definitely do away with renegs altogether
-Maybe also do away with any re-signing of RFAs - dump them into FA2?

I don't think the rules I have in place now create any meaningful challenge, but this might be a start -- especially for a team that's trying to build, rather than just maintain (as I have been here, sort of).
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Old 05-08-2011, 03:20 PM   #10
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So, I broke out of my rut by abandoning the write-up, and just playing on. No intention to detail the small scale stuff here, but here's a quick catch-up -- more for purposes of evaluating the rules, than assessing the team.

For 2022, new head coach (Walter Jones?!?), unimpressive draft, and another very familiar outcome. We were 15-0 playing against 12-3 Pittsburgh, we lose to them to drop the perfect record, and the lose to them again in the divisional game to notch yet another one-and-out payoffs. In 2023, we are a 12-4 #1 seed, make the title game but lose again. Nothing spectacular either season.

Skipping renegs finally caught up to me in 2024, where I had four starters all up for new contracts at once. Despite my run-first team approach, I decided to make WR Fiedler my priority, and in the four weeks it took to re-up with him, we watched our star SS and starting MLB get signed elsewhere. Along with another couple of random defections, this was the first offseason where I didn't get basically everything I wanted. I did use some cap space on a new star-caliber CB (six year deal, which seems like a major factor in this setup long term), but watched my defense drop from dominant to decent, and we slipped to a 10-6 wild card spot (following several straight bye weeks).

In the 2025 offseason, I had another dilemma - had to target re-signing my young CB Huffman, lost another couple of valuable pieces in free agency, and had to repair my chemistry setup, suffering a major loss in cohesion in the midst. We managed a 10-6 division title, and yet another one-and-out in the postseason.

We enter 2026 with 12 rookies (two trade-downs, the only way I had to fill my roster) and only 52 players, after it took 5 weeks for DE Tim Newton to re-up with us. More turnover, and certainly less ability for me to simply have my way with the offseason goings on.

I'm re-interested in playing this out... but some early indications are that this setup is pretty easy to follow, and provides some substantial challenge. What I don't know is whether I'm compounding the challenge unreasonably by my own non-rule-based insistence (this run-first approach, and staff-depth-charting chiefly) --but right at the moment, I'm honestly not sure if this team in three years will be more likely to win 14 or 7 games. That's fairly encouraging.
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Old 06-19-2011, 12:51 PM   #11
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Well, a quick update here, just as a check-in on this concept. Here's the progression playing under the rules I basically left off with... playing pretty much wide open, except no renegs and only one FA offer at a time, ever.

Here's what we have done:

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GM Performance for Michael & Jeff Sanderson of the Cleveland Browns Year Team Eval Perf Diff Proft FrVal Record Playoffs 2045 CLE 95 90 76 100 100 13-4-0 Division Final 2044 CLE 85 78 77 87 100 13-5-0 Division Final 2043 CLE 92 78 76 100 100 12-6-0 Conference Final 2042 CLE 95 90 77 100 98 13-5-0 Conference Final 2041 CLE 93 86 77 98 98 15-4-0 Conference Champion 2040 CLE 64 63 77 54 100 12-6-0 Division Final 2039 CLE 66 66 73 56 100 12-6-0 Division Final 2038 CLE 73 83 74 60 99 12-6-0 Conference Final 2037 CLE 41 78 74 0 100 13-5-0 Division Final 2036 CLE 48 86 74 11 91 16-3-0 Bowl Winner 2035 CLE 46 90 75 3 96 17-2-0 Bowl Winner 2034 CLE 64 90 74 42 86 16-3-0 Bowl Winner 2033 CLE 60 90 75 33 90 18-1-0 Bowl Winner 2032 CLE 67 86 75 50 85 15-4-0 Conference Champion 2031 CLE 51 90 76 13 97 17-2-0 Bowl Winner 2030 CLE 57 81 76 30 99 15-4-0 Bowl Winner 2029 CLE 44 90 76 0 94 15-3-0 Conference Final 2028 CLE 42 83 75 0 97 16-3-0 Bowl Winner 2027 CLE 46 90 74 2 100 14-3-0 Division Final 2026 CLE 60 63 73 52 77 14-6-0 Conference Champion 2025 CLE 74 86 72 64 88 12-6-0 Conference Final 2024 CLE 65 57 71 59 100 10-7-0 Wild Card Round 2023 CLE 92 86 71 100 90 14-5-0 Conference Champion 2022 CLE 85 83 72 89 86 15-2-0 Division Final 2021 CLE 76 63 72 85 77 10-7-0 Wild Card Round 2020 CLE 86 90 73 89 74 14-3-0 Division Final 2019 CLE 84 90 73 85 75 14-3-0 Division Final 2018 CLE 80 83 74 83 72 14-5-0 Conference Champion 2017 CLE 79 90 74 78 67 16-2-0 Conference Final 2016 CLE 72 74 76 74 64 14-6-0 Conference Champion 2015 CLE 76 86 76 77 55 12-5-0 Division Final 2014 CLE 69 52 76 82 55 8-8-0 None 2013 CLE 65 28 75 87 57 6-10-0 None 2012 CLE 71 60 77 82 57 10-6-0 None 2011 CLE 61 34 76 76 59 6-9-1 None 2010 CLE 62 45 75 71 63 8-8-0 None 2009 CLE 53 5 75 75 67 4-12-0 None

Bottom line, we lined up a quality QB and reeled off a monstrous run for several seasons. In 2034, our QB had a CEI, but we remained atop the heap with a great WR corps, and high cohesion and chemistry, and despite slipping from regular champion to just regular bye-week-team, that's where we remain. Our current QB is scouted at 47/47, but has a career passer rating of about 113 -- that's where we are as a franchise.

Maybe we are just in an unlucky rut, or maybe there's something systematically keeping us away from playoff success at the moment, but we have managed to achieve excellent results playing under these rules.

The last 2 seasons have been played with about 48 total players on the roster, as we had a couple FA delays (guys taking 5 stages to sign with us) muck up the numbers game, but that hasn't proven to be a serious issue.

Overall, rules are too easy overall, but they do lend themselves to a quick sit down, pick it back up, and play out a whole season in 90 minutes... which sort of suits my needs right now.
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Old 07-08-2011, 04:49 PM   #12
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I'm thinking about either reviving this career, or starting a new one with similar rules. I think the rule set that might inch even closer to the ideal is this:

-No renegotiations, period (all players hit the free market)
-No re-signing RFAs in the early FA period (they too hit the open market, in the late FA stages)
-No more than one offer outstanding to any player (including your own) in any stage of free agency
-After signing a player to a deal other than either (a) his exact request or (b) a minsal deal, skip a stage before submitting another offer to any player
-No signing of any players in any other way than the 16 stages of free agency, and the rookie draft
-No other obvious shenanigans (like swapping future draft picks)

The biggest weakness in the way I had been playing was the ability to sign some pretty good players to cap-friendly long term deals, even if that wasn't what they wanted. So, the 4th rule above is designed to make me pay a price for doing so -- losing out on one more FA signing is actually a fairly big deal in this setup, so it would at least have to be a pretty attractive player/contract to get me to pay the "sit out" price. My guess is I'd end up signing more and more guys to exactly-what-they-want deals, meaning more backloading and theoretically more cap troubles -- which would be a good thing.

This is honestly evolving into one of the better sets of rules I have played with, I think. At least for my current needs (quicker, simpler than years ago, I suppose) it's not bad.
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Old 07-29-2011, 10:01 AM   #13
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Short follow-up: Not hard enough. Fairly quickly turned shell of new team's roster into a perennial powerhouse. I have been cycling through lower-round players and not resigning many RFAs, but my rules allowing me to acquire top talent in free agency is just too easy to abuse, even with a "stiffs at WR" policy added on top of the rules laid out above.
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Old 07-30-2011, 10:15 PM   #14
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Okay, new thinking now -- need a cap limitation in place as well.

-No renegotiations, period (all players hit the free market)
-No re-signing RFAs in the early FA period (they too hit the open market, in the late FA stages)
-No more than one offer outstanding to any player (including your own) in any stage of free agency
-After signing a player to a deal other than either (a) his exact request or (b) a minsal deal, skip a stage before submitting another offer to any player
-No signing of any players in any other way than the 16 stages of free agency, and the rookie draft
-No acquiring future first round draft picks
-No WR rated >50 overall or >50 in BPR may be signed or re-signed
-Start each season with dead cap space equal to 1/3 of total cap
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Old 08-27-2011, 01:15 PM   #15
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So far, this is working out really well for me. Team got behind a journeyman QB and a 1600-yard rookie RB and won a Superbowl for its first in 14 years (and the first under the tougher rules) but in the following offseason we lost our starting QB, 2nd best CB, top tier TE, and two valuable reserves as we got trapped in a bidding war, spending too much to keep our favorite CB around. Team isn't falling apart at any point, but I have actually missed the postseason once or twice, and have only been a serious title contender (i.e. 11+ wins and/or bye week) maybe one year in three.

Encouraging so far. Easy to remember, easy to play through quickly, keeps things challenging enough.
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Old 10-02-2011, 08:56 PM   #16
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Against my usual tendency, I still occasionally dabble with this team.

Thinking about tightening things up with one big new rule -- signing a free agent from outside my roster can only be done one of two ways:

-minsal
-one year deal, no bonus

Would make it much tougher to add in veteran talent (or the pretty good 3rd-6th year guys who have become my FA staple diet of late) -- as I'd need to sign them once and then extend after that season on the open market. I like this in concept, have yet to implement in practice.
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