LogFAQs > #924369890

Haven't thought through this entirely, but my 1st instinct is this is probably a bad idea rule-wise. The rule's not really clear, but I assume there's nothing to prevent you from signing a player to a longer than one-year deal and then trading them the following year/whatever year their deal ends (and if there was, hopefully it is obvious why that would be dumb). It's more inconvenient, but it's not really encouraging anyone to let players go to free agency in the vast majority of cases.

I also don't see what's stopping you from re-signing a player in the final year of their deal to one more year during the season in order to trade them the following year, but you could make a rule against that.

Making teams pay a premium in free agency instead of sign-and-trading, depending on the player involved and the teams' cap space, can be more costly, and more importantly, it's unclear what benefit the rule accomplishes.

I foresee at best a really insignificant boost to the free agent market which will probably mostly benefit random AI teams since they don't pay premiums in FA, so they'll pick up the guys that slip through the cracks offer-wise.

That doesn't seem like much of a benefit to me especially when the price being paid is more needlessly complicated rules to prevent users from trading with one another.