Dear Coaches,
This season we trialled a Post MSD Free Drafting Period.
While useful for many coaches (7 participated), on review of the period now it appears the least engaged coaches did not participate. As such this has the potential in future seasons to entrench disadvantage for said coaches compared to the more engaged coaches.
While as you know, I’m always keen to innovate and improve the HFFL, I’m not keen to make it feel like it requires more effort for individual coaches to remain competitive, balancing HFFL against other life priorities.
Given this, I have decided this 2022 trial will end and it will not continue in future years.
Thanks to those who provided feedback.
Kind Regards,
Logistix
The details of this Post MSD FDP are below for record keeping purposes and such that it can be studied in the future, in case a variant was proposed.
Message sent on 25th May 2022:
Dear Coaches,
After the success of the post PSD-FDP this season, we are going to trial a post MSD-FDP and it will last approximately 1 week:
It will start at 0800 AWST this Friday 27th May and end 1 week later at the beginning of R12 (Friday 3rd June 5:50pm AWST).
The end coincides with the end of the post-MSD trading period and was chosen for both as R12 represents the start of the bye rounds.
During this FDP, coaches may delist any player and recruit any available player on the bench at any time.
This is an Administrative Decision after consultation with the RGC. If it is successful, next season it will simply start at the end of the MSD and finish at the same time (so will be a couple weeks).
Any objections please advise.
Kind Regards,
Logistix