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For each player, near or beside Make Offer/Offer Contract/Offer Trade, there would be a place for Show Interest, taking you to a form similar to Contract Offer.

Similar to contract offers, but a notice to a player that a team has interest in them. This option can be turned on/off by the agents by selecting "allow notices of interest" or "disallow notices of interest", which the former would be the default. They could also select which teams they prefer to send notes of interest, whether it's age or league range. Teams can only send one "NOI" to per player per season to avoid bombardment.

Think this would make it easier to contact agents and players instead of using the forums, private messages, and such before offering contracts. Then the agent/player could check off their level of interest in the team, maybe a scale of 1-10 as well as a place to add a note of sorts similar to contract offers.

Owners and managers could gauge how much interest a player has and could take it into consideration when recruiting after they receive and view the level of interest chart(s) for all players contacted.

PMs would then be used more effectively for communicating other intangibles afterwards and the forums would have less bunching during the end of the seasons.

What do you think?

Owners, GMs and agents should think about what this could do for their mental sanity. Think about it:

@~~ Imagine a GLB, where there was no constant posting of players looking for teams, or teams looking for players. Where life goes on as normal and the tranquility of the sounds of autumn relax you as you press on through the day.

Coming online to GLB and opening your "Notices of Interest" page to see someone likes you, or your team.

While sipping on your tea, coffee, or gatorade, you pleasantly scroll through the many notices to find one that says "choose this one".

You respond with the same ease as you did when you scrolled to locate your selection, letting them know that you have interest also.

The two run towards each other in slow motion with arms open, anticipating the coming embrace.

The union is complete after consummating the agreement, and they live happily ever after (atleast until the end of the contract season)~~@

THE END

I like this in concept.

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I could go either way with this. As long as it's an option....

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I also think it could bog down the forums less, and then maybe they could be able to implement a search option. Which could bog down the forums even less as it would eliminate duplicate posts on the same topic.

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Additional thoughts

In the Marketplace, have a tab for "My Contacts" (NOI) or something of the sort that will allow you to view all contacted players and their responses and level of interest.

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Another thought on this, it could also be 2-way. Where either an owner/manager or an agent could utilize this system.

Say if a team has open spots and is looking for players, the agent could then click on a similar tab for the team that would take them to an "agent note of interest" versus a "team note of interest" form. Both could be treated the same for simplicity, but can always be tweaked for different options for an agent than for an owner/manager.

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Originally posted by Myd
I like this in concept.

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Give me a minute, will think of some more adjustment to this feature. Any ideas?

Could really change FA. Really like this, +1.

Originally posted by jetsown09
Could really change FA. Really like this, +1.

Seriously, the forums become bloated at the end of the regular season and expiring contracts.