Financial issues I think we should address.

[Bob_Meteors]

2) free agents of a certain calibur go to auction if we have the tech to manage it

Interesting. What defines "a certain caliber"? Just star rating, or WAR, or what? And do we take hometown preference into consideration?

1) a "union", either algorithm or gm committee with utmost punishment for kickbacks

Definitely utmost punishment, probably kicked from the league. But if the union is made of rotating GMs, there would be less opportunity for conflict of interest.

[claphamsa]

I was in a league with something like a union, and I will never do it again. all decisions need to be made by the game engine.

[Bob_Meteors]

I was in a league with something like a union, and I will never do it again. all decisions need to be made by the game engine.

Huh. Could you elaborate a little? What was wrong?

[Havana_Jake]

Interesting. What defines "a certain caliber"? Just star rating, or WAR, or what? And do we take hometown preference into consideration?

I think a certain WAR rather than star rating. And I'd be against any hometown consideration.

[Bob_Meteors]

Nice job including your added comments in the quote. 

I think hometown preference should be considered, but as I said earlier, it's a very slippery slope. Probably best to omit it, as Jake said.

[claphamsa]

GM bias is always a given, no matter how hard you try to fight it...its there. who is to say that frank F isnt better off signing with rome than paris?  human=inconstant.

[Coop]

While we're throwing out ideas, here's a dramatic one ... why not just do away with free agency in the WBA?  After all, free agency isn't handled very well in OOTP.  Very few good players reach free agency.  Those who do receive insane contract offers, and then instead of taking the best offer they just seem to choose one randomly.  It's a mess, so I'm inclined to just get rid of it.  Set up a tiered salary structure instead.  That would allow teams to keep their best players as long as they want, provided that the team is willing and able to pay the players the salaries they deserve according to the tiered system.  Would make team-building more structured, less chaotic.  I know I'm probably going to start a firestorm with this suggestion but I think it would resolve a lot of the problems we're seeing (the free agency problems, contract extension problems, etc.).  Let's think outside the box and explore all options.  OOTP doesn't provide a good financial system; we need to recognize that and make improvements.

[claphamsa]

im in 2 no finances leagues...and they are super fun.