Looks like it’s ranked based on salary, tag designation if any, and length of time the player was bid on. I thought the cumulative effect of losing Matt Roth, D’Qwell Jackson, and Eric Wright would have been worth a late round pick, but I guess amount of players lost doesn’t factor in.
Because there is so much turnover, there tends to be a lot of free agents signed over free agents lost... Which would screw whatever complex formula that the NFL uses (free agents signed/lost, players playing time, salary, etc). I figured the best way to do this is go by how much a UFA netted in free agency if he wasn't re-signed by his team (for example, I resigned Champ Bailey by giving him the transition tag; I also resigned Kevin Vickerson in unrestricted free agency). Transition tagged players did count in this, but franchised tagged players did not. I asked a couple GMs on their thoughts on this process and they agreed that this was a fair formula. The market decides who gets compensatory picks basically.
Karma tells me you would have re-signed him for like $9.0M then. And I would have laughed... then again, it's still better than Doug Free for $20.0M...
Yeah, I'm nice to everyone but Desides... Desides pestered me too much to get a pick. I think 20/32 teams got compensatory picks, which is on cue with the NFL as they gave 19 teams compensatory picks in 2010.
I get nothing for losing Stephen Tulloch? 16 game starter drafted by Tennessee, signed by Chiefs for $4M.
