Ditto to everything Tim has said.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, no reallocation drafts. Forcing successful owners who have invested years worth of time into their teams and have built dominate clubs from staying active, trading, good drafting, etc...should not be penalized because everyone else can't figure out how to do the same.

If you need to contract 4 teams, fine. Throw their players into a pool and let us draft them (rookie draft style, based on record). Most likely, the top teams won't keep more than 1 or 2 of those players anyway (and that's only if those players are better than their 26th and 27th men).

If you need to actually do a reallocation draft in leagues with lots of unmanaged or poorly run teams, then that's fine too....as long as it only involves the teams that want to participate (as the rules indicate by the way). Like Tim mentioned though, we have an owner that purposely dumped all of his good players, expecting a reallocation draft (in the 2nd year of the league's existence), and then left the team when that didn't happen. The team has since been picked up by a good owner, but it will be year's before that team is competitive.

Anyway, that's my 2 cents. I don't want any part of a reallocation, and I likely wouldn't keep more than 1 player from a contraction draft (since my 4 teams would be drafting at the end of the first round anyway...unless it's a random order).

Jon Diehl
St. Louis Trash