Question on Franchise player? (1 Viewer)

[Jbl1967]

I have a question for any league members that use the franchise tag in their leagues.

In our league, we use the average of the top five players or the winning bid plus 20% whichever is higher.

My question is; when you put a franchise tag on the player, do the owners that are bidding on that player start from $0.0 or do you start from the average of the top five at their position?

Example: LTs franchise price is $27.00, does the bidding start at $27.00 or from $0.00?

Thanks and would love to hear from people ASAP.

Thank you.

 

[GregR_2]

I have a question for any league members that use the franchise tag in their leagues.In our league, we use the average of the top five players or the winning bid plus 20% whichever is higher.My question is; when you put a franchise tag on the player, do the owners that are bidding on that player start from $0.0 or do you start from the average of the top five at their position? Example: LTs franchise price is $27.00, does the bidding start at $27.00 or from $0.00?Thanks and would love to hear from people ASAP.Thank you.

In my league the tagged player must get a qualifying offer equal to the greater of (a 20% raise over previous salary or average of the top 5 paid players at his position).The bidding starts at the qualifying offer price. If anyone bids on the player, then the tagging owner has the option to "match the contract" and retain the player at the winning bid price, or he can let him go and get two 1st round rookie picks as compensation. So the bidding amounts to other teams being able to increase the price over the required offer. I don't like the idea you have mentioned of having the tagging team have to pay 20% more than any other team is willing just to keep him. I think the NFL's method of having it be 20% more than his previous salary is better. It will help keep some quality players flowing through the vet auction as eventually some of the best players won't be worth a 20% raise over what they got last year. And also, the change you've made to making it 20% over the WINNING bid penalizes the original owner and makes him pay more than anyone else, when the whole purpose of the Franchise Tag is to help teams not lose key players without some kind of compensation. The change is completely against the purpose the Franchise Tag is supposed to be accomplishing.