So here's the deal. With Leo removing the market idea, I can do something I've wanted to do for a very long time: Start as an expansion team essentially. The team will be awful for a while, and I didn't want my market to be perma screwed from the start with such huge losing seasons.
Instead of PMing everyone and getting ignored still largely I figured this might be best. In theory, we could do a dispersal draft, but that could be cumbersome and Leo may not want to. The next best thing would be to auction off my guys.
What I want: youth, specs, or simply expiring deals. I'm not going to be a stickler. You guys will bid in public against each other. I'd love to clear my roster of anyone above 26 or so. People who help take long deals for middling players off my hands will have a better chance of their offer being accepted. I can shell out cash if it's needed too.
What I don't want: Older guys under contract past next season. Don't want them, and they screw with my plan. Older guys on short deals, younger guys on long deals are fine, but again, my overwhelming desire is to treat this project like an enhanced expansion team (enhanced because I have some worthwhile specs and would be getting some back in the cases of Taylor or such) though I don't have my 1st for the next 2 years.
Once everyone has had time to be aware and ask questions, I'll throw up the 1st player and the rules.