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Originally Posted by Nittany Dodgers

I'm with Mike in the sense that a little tweaking is more appropriate than a major overhaul. I don't think dropping first round tenders is a major overhaul. And Mike, to your comment of whether the 1.13 is adequate compensation for Shaun Alexander, that is not the point. Take a look at what happened in the Frenzy, sure, the 1.13 may not be adequate, but when losing Alexander means you have the cap space for LT, you get way more in return for what you are losing. At 1.13, you've moved out of sure thing category, but there is still plenty of talent on the board. I'll say it again, the compensatory picks were never meant to be anything near equal compensation.

Secondly, picks past the first round definitely are not worthless. In the Frenzy, without IDPs, they are definitely worth less, but considering you can draft a player that could start for you right away for under market value in the 5th and 6th rounds, how can they be worthless?

I think anthing involving trading of picks would be problmeatic, unless we banned the practice of trading options to swap picks in a round. That would get far too complicated and muddy the waters far too much.

I wouldn't be against some form of forfeiting picks to illiminate the dilluting of the waters. What about something like if you sign a 1st round RFA tender, and you lose a 1st round RFA player, then you lose you compensatory pick because you signed a first round player.

Team A signs LT from team B. Team B gets 1 round comp. Team B then signs Shaun Alexander from Team C. Team B loses 1st round come by signingin a 1st round player from another team. Team C still gets a 1st round comp, unless they sign a 1st round player from another team. Team A doesn't have to pay anything just for signing a 1st round player, unless they lose a first rounder themself.

This would solve a few problems. First, it wouldn't make it prohibitively costly to sign 1st round tendered players from other teams, because you would at least still be able to maintain your own picks. Secondly, it would reduce the motivation to just slap a tender on a player with the intention of signing another player of the same value from another team and picking up a free pick. Lastly, fewer comp picks would be passed out, keeping the value of the draft intact, while not totally destroying the movement of players.

BTW I've tried stating about 3-4 times now to put in a system to reduce the comp if a player is lost and a replacement is signed at the same comp level.

While your proposal eliminated the comp entirely, mine reduces it a round. Both accomplish the same objective, though I prefer my plan since the odds of an even up type swap like what occured in the Frenzy with LT and Alexander are not that high. I think the norm will be more like the Alexander / McGahee swap.