2021 Rules Changes

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This is from Legacy another 32 team league. No TAB's involved in compensation resigning.

Restricted Free Agency



Teams with an RFA rights tag will offer an initial contract tender, based on the tender prices below. Legacy NFL will use a baseline price for salary when it comes to determining the tender value of any player, this will serve two purposes, the first is that it will be a draft pick compensation based tender, and it will also serve as the initial contract offer by the RFA rights team.



The baseline prices for an initial tender and contract offer will work based on as follows:



1 year contact offer = tender price + 0%

2 year contract offer = tender price + 15% of tender price

3 year contract offer = tender price + 30% of tender price

4 year contract offer = tender price + 45% of tender price.



Once a contract tender and a baseline salary has been offered by the RFA rights team, there will be a 7 day window open to other Legacy NFL teams to place an offer sheet to that player, with draft pick compensation as part of the offer. When a winning bid stand for 24 hours, the RFA rights team will have the opportunity to match any offers, or have the option to let the player walk and receive the draft pick compensation based on the tender levied.



The RFA Tender Prices are as follows:



$600k -- 5th round draft pick



1M --- 4th round draft pick



$1.50 -- 3rd round draft pick



$2.50 -- 2nd round draft pick.



$5M -- 1st round draft pick.



$6.50M -- 1st and 2nd round draft picks.







Tender amount will rise to 110% of the previous year's salary, if that is greater.





If player remains without a contract offer sheet after the RFA period is over, the owner with the right to the player is allowed to resign him at the contract tender price value plus the baseline percentage. If a team chooses not to match the bid contract, then they will be compensated with the tender draft picks.



Bidding by teams placing an offer sheet will be conducted the same as a Vet UFA, with bid increases, Bids must stand for a 24 hour period, then after the 24 hours the owner has the chance to match that bid and keep the player or let him go and receive draft compensation. The clock starts for RFA's once bid on.



Lastly RFA's can only be bid on by teams who have the tender draft picks available to get rid of if they win that RFA.



Restricted Free Agents are free agents who have been in the league for 3 years or less. Any player signed with RFA status must be in his 3rd year or less on the last year of the contract.



If a player according to NFL.com is a rookie, then a 3 year max contract can be offered with an RFA designation.



If a player according to NFL.com has 1 year of experience, then only a 2 year contract max may be offered with a RFA designation.



If a player according to NFL.com has 2 years of experience, then only a 1 year contract max may be offered with a RFA designation

[Patriots GM (Daniel)]

Definetely think a change to RFA will be proposed for nect year going forwards, maybe even proposed this offseason.

Right now we're seeing players being tendered or overtendered and then offered a minimum salary increase so that teams can lock up their guys without offers. These offers are being approved as the salary works out compared to how other players are being paid.

Using the above suggestion this would lock that down by making teams back up their tenders with an increased salary depending on the number of years offered. This would promote two things:
1) Teams would need to carefully consider the tender and the contract they want to offer to the player so they keep enough salary to build their roster effectively. This means we might see players tendered at a lower level than expected, or kept for fewer years, making UFA more interesting.
2) Lower level tenders would mean there is likely to be more activity in RFA.

I do think we would need to consider some changes to a system such as the one above to take into account position scarcity, perhaps a range of tender prices depending on position (Similar to how extensions work)

[Bills GM (Greg)]

I agree. We need to develop a consistent method of pricing players not bid on in RFA. I've played in leagues using the system outlined above. It works pretty well and eliminates the often misunderstood "competitive" contract process after free agency.

[JAGUARS GM (Kevin)]

Would be a good idea and would give GM's some idea of what they'd pay should no one bid on their player and not be prone to the vagaries of TAB voting