RFA Status Check

[egulden1982]

Hopefully there's a simple explanation for this, but I'm seeing a number of guys on the pending free agent list that are marked as RFAs who are in the 4th year and would no longer qualify as a RFA. Examples:

Michael Bush
Brandon Flowers
Jackie Battle
BenJarvus Green-Ellis

With Bush in particular, they just went through a big ordeal this offseason with the league rules on whether he was a UFA or not. He was a RFA after 2010 and will be a UFA after this season. The same should be true of any other 4th year guy.

This is concerning as some guys have been moved based on RFA status and if rosters are incorrectly showing RFA status, that's a big problem.

I think we somehow need this confirmed at least for any 2011 RFAs. If there's an explanation for this I'd be interested, but it seems a bit off from the rulebook.

[Patriots GM (Daniel)]

We used Rotoworld contracts to start the league and these players had RFA in this year. This is the only reason why they have them.

In the future RFA will only go to players drafted 2-4th rounds and players signed to contracts finishing in a players 3rd year or before

[egulden1982]

Then you need to change the rulebook or something because it's not consistent. The rules state 3 years or less per NFL.com for RFAs. What was Rotoworld's policy for assigning RFAs?

[Patriots GM (Daniel)]

The rulebook does state this at the top

The league started in 2011 with the real NFL teams and actual contracts.

[egulden1982]

If it were actual contracts then these guys aren't RFAs regardless of Rotoworld's classification.

[Patriots GM (Daniel)]

These are actual contracts at the time that the league was created. Also I am moving this to the questions section

[egulden1982]

So you set this up with old rules rather than implementing post-lockout rules?

[Patriots GM (Daniel)]

It was set up before the new deal

[Administrator]

the league was set up b4 the lockout was sorted . Daniel and myself decided it would be easier to use what was on rotoworld as the lockout agreement implemented rules that would effect some players contracts. So we had to first set up the league then get 30 owners, set up each roster (for those who needed help) set up MFL then do the draft. There was no time to wait for the lockout deal then set up or change players. This is how we decided the league would start