This is the second year in a row that my kicker has been cut from his team. This year it's Nick Novak. I have drafted 15 teams this season, and three of them will go in to week one with no kicker and no way to remedy this. It's pretty unacceptable to have a tournament of this magnitude and buy-in price with no ability to adjust your team whatsoever after the cut list comes out. Please consider adjusting this for future seasons.
Prior to this year, we did not have pre-season free agency at all in the Footballguys Players Championship, in the first 5 years of the running of the contest. We added it for 2015 because it made sense and for various logistics reasons we chose Friday September 4th as the date for this free agency. It just so happened that this was 1 day before the NFL cut down date, whichi to be perfectly honest, noone took into consideration until yesterday. When I say noone, I mean not us and not a single other person that we are aware of. Going forward in 2016, we can definitely look at improving the scheduling of the pre-season free agency, which we have already discussed internally and can discuss publicly in the next off-season.
With that said, I am of the opinion that decisions we as owners make in fantasy football carry various type of risk. And it's our responsibility as fantasy owners to accept this risk, based on the rules of the game which we play. We all know that injuries, suspensions and cuts are all part of the NFL so when that happens, I don't think it's the fault of the contest format which may or may not have free agecy to help affected teams replace lost players, instead it's just one of those risks working against us. If we carry one kicker or one quarterback, that's the risk we need to accept. Just like it could happen in the middle of the season when something unexpected happens on Saturday or Sunday morning when there are no other free agency opportunities. Just my personal opinion as a fantasy owner & player, not necessarily a contest operator.