The new Collective Bargaining Agreement.
It's complicated and needs explaining, not just to RW.
The 13 teams playing Buffalo this year must name at least 1 player to be kept on the roster. Those teams pay that player's match payments.
It's designed, like the draft for parity- helps teams with crappy players match them up on even crappier players.
It also reduces embarrasement for players. If you sucked that day, you've always got someone else on the team to stand next to and look good.
It works for the other 31 teams too. For example, that's how Bennie's in Miami.
We lucked out last year, player payments were way down...RW was rapped:blush: