Nevermind, I just thought about it and there is always a way around it. You could just switch the players position if you want it bad enough. I guess we play and hope people play by rules but they don't...Only other option would be to give a warning or take draft pick(s) away. Take away picks in every league that person is in.

How else can new teams get better besides tanking? New leagues rarely open so when new people like me have to join and inherit a computer drafted team what do you honestly suggest they do?

Try to win? My very first team was in MFN-2, and I took them from a perennial bottom feeder to division champ in a single season. It's a tougher road than getting in on the ground floor, but it's by no means an impossible task.

If it's a league that is usually full with active human owners, then you just aren't really going to be able to improve through free agency. That pretty much leaves you with the draft so yeah I'd have to agree that it would be tough without picking very high in the draft.

You can rebuild a team through FA and not need to depend on the draft. I honestly dont get trading away a young player with 85+ skills for draft picks in order to rebuild. First of all your most likely creating a dead cap space from eating the rest of the bonus $ and second off your taking a gamble that the player you drafted wasnt a bust. Seen way to many owners come in and do this and honestly if there is success to this go ahead and post it up here.

FA can be managed well if you dont blow your cap on one player, there is actually very good talent in the 70's range that you can sometimes get on the cheap because the high bidders are going after the studs.

The biggest issue is joining a new league after the first season because there will be no FA's until after the 2nd and 3rd seasons as the draft usually signs the talented players to automatic 3+ year contracts so in those leagues you just need to have patience and not panic and trade talent away because IMO you will then always be chasing and be in cap ****.

Just my .02 on this.

I would add that FA pools wax and wane. Looking over my MFN-2 roster, a majority of my starters were originally FAs, and even then I'd rate my performance in FA in that league as beyond miserable, since I was still learning the ropes in making competitive offers and missed out on almost every big name player to hit the market.