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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
You had to sign him before he showed up on the 'manage roster' screen. You already committed to three years to this guy before you bothered to even check his availability for week 1. I have no earthly idea what compelled you to do so.
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He was already on the roster when i inherited it, he was on the Manage roster screen.. he showed available for the entire season, so I resigned him. It's not that hard to understand, DJ.
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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
That's what I want. But please, explain to me how it's a more realistic experience to allow teams in sandbox to choose from one of over 400 surplus NFL roster players that are available because we use 24 teams instead of 32.
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Players are signed during the season in
reality due to injuries and other factors forcing others out\off the roster. Again, not hard to understand. You're talking out of both sides of the mouth again.
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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
The answer is simple - it's not. If an NFL team is forced to go to the street during the season, they get the equivalent of Sandbox's "street free agent". In real life, the player that NFL teams "have a chance to go sign" is essentially the real world equivalent of the Street Free Agent that sandbox is going to give you. You're not going to get to choose from 400 legitimate NFL caliber players that are sitting in the FA pool due to only having 24 teams.
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This makes much more sense to me as it's explained out, and if this is the intended reasoning behind the coding, then that's good. The problem is then - For a player in my situation who is brand spanking new to this. There is no repository for information. Nothing. I did not know that the season was starting until Monday when I read someone talking about the games starting then this past weekend. Hence, my surprise when FA ended. The ONLY information I have read is the few discussions I've seen on this thread and an email I got one time explaining Free Agency by Rain Man and was given the following tid-bits in the email
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Free Agency will begin before the 2012 season after the rookie draft.
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n the 2012 season, we will introduce all free agents at once to catch up. In the 2013 season and beyond, the free agency period will occur during the actual NFL season
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This to me was confusing, I thought we were actually doing Free Agency to "catch up" to where we are currently and then was going to have the seasons start:
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a. Sandbox season goes from February through April.
b. Rookie draft in May. No 53-man limit.
c. Free agency from (likely) September through December, with free agents sprinkled in throughout that period.
d. January. Roster cuts to 53.
e. Late January. Final free agency period to flesh out rosters and sign players cut in Step d.
f. New Sandbox season begins.
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I was lost, and have been lost since day one on everything. I've asked here and there on here what is going on and the have been given responses which has been nice, but there is no calendar or explanation of events that I've seen. This is just the league schedule, concerning rules I've been equally clueless (like Free Agency and trades being cut off etc). Someone here said it was announced, but I didn't see any further emails or anything on the site regarding this type of stuff.. so I was ignorant and obviously continue to be so.