No Compensory Picks for the Bills

[All_Pro_Bills]

For some reason it seems the Bills always get the short end of the stick with the compensatory formula and picks. And I never understood the rationale behind the compensatory pick process. After all, a 'free agent' is no longer under contract to his former team. At that point the team has no 'rights' to the player (he's off their active payroll) so by him signing elsewhere they actually lost nothing. Technically they 'lost' nothing.

 

Use Revis as an example. The Patriots, by not paying a bonus payment to Revis prior to a contractual deadline voiding the deal and made the player a free agent. Then Revis signs a very generous contract with the Jets. What did the Patriots lose? They voluntarily 'opted out' of a contract both parties agreed to (even though both knew year 2 was never going to happen) and released the player from his contractual obligations to the team. Why should they get compensation picks in the draft?

 

 

[billsfan89]

The compensatory picks process is the dumbest thing in the NFL and that's saying a lot. I get the formula, it's a simple how many players did you sign vs. how many did you lose. So losing a player to a 5 year 50 million dollar contract is the same as signing a free agent to a one year 3 million dollar deal. The process really doesn't allow for much context or nuance for signings. Simple how many in how many out.

 

The way the system should be set up is dollars in vs. dollars out. So if your free agent losses were 75 million and you only signed 30 million worth of contracts you should be compensated in accordance to the 45 million dollar difference in free agent dollars (IE a 3rd round pick is worth 40 million, a 4th round pick is worth 30 million, a 5th rounder 20 million, a 6th rounder 10 million, and a 7th rounder 7 million). And of course you have caps and limits to amounts of picks. But this simplistic formula has to go.

[NoSaint]

For some reason it seems the Bills always get the short end of the stick with the compensatory formula and picks. And I never understood the rationale behind the compensatory pick process. After all, a 'free agent' is no longer under contract to his former team. At that point the team has no 'rights' to the player (he's off their active payroll) so by him signing elsewhere they actually lost nothing. Technically they 'lost' nothing.

 

Use Revis as an example. The Patriots, by not paying a bonus payment to Revis prior to a contractual deadline voiding the deal and made the player a free agent. Then Revis signs a very generous contract with the Jets. What did the Patriots lose? They voluntarily 'opted out' of a contract both parties agreed to (even though both knew year 2 was never going to happen) and released the player from his contractual obligations to the team. Why should they get compensation picks in the draft?

 

 

revis is not counted in it (unless i missed something in his contracts format), as they CHOSE to let him go, and the player didnt choose to leave. a non tendered RFA likewise isnt in the calculation because the team opted not to keep him, as another example. Its only valid for naturally expiring contracts.