6 Feature suggestions for franchise mode
- Personalized owner restrictions/tendencies. Take the Cincinatti Bengals for example, they have a tendency to let star players walk (Think Joe Mixon, Jessie Bates, etc.) and cut cheaper contracts to lower quality players. Though a team like the Ravens or Buccaneers are more likely to retain their players. I think a personalized restriction, like only being able to spend 30mil in free agency though your cap space could be 90mil, placed upon by the owner would be an immersive feature.
- UDFA Bidding. as seen in NFL head coach 09, Post draft you could opt-in to bid on UDFAs. Now, unlike current franchise, you aren't able to see those players overalls or dev traits. So, maybe a bidding system with a max limit of udfas to a team would make them seem more valuable and people could get more involved in the player pool.
- Scheme Fit Matters. Currently the only reason to bring in a player is based purely on factors like ovr, dev trait, or age. Though if there is a boost to a player's performance for fitting in the coaches scheme, say maybe an ovr boost placed upon certain stats, would make you think about going for someone who is a few ovr less. Thus being how teams operate in real life.
- Extensive coaching trees. If say you were doing a cardinals rebuild, maybe you would really want to go out and invest heavily in the best wr coach on the market to help develop Marvin Harrison Jr., maybe there could be a system using your coaching points to where you can develop these coaches and if their players out-perform expectations, or if they unlock too many traits, maybe an opposing team could poach them and make them an OC/DC.
- Coaching Budget. Now in real life, there is no coaching salary cap, what teams spend is based purely upon the franchises. So, if the previous idea is implemented, something to think about instead of going and getting all of the best position coaches, there is now a budget placed upon by the owner.
- Compensatory picks (self-explainable)
