Quote:Ok your a team and you have a player coming into his last season with the team.  You say lets franchise him and see if we can get the two first round picks, and if not it will give us time to either trade him or sign him to a long term deal. 

 

In the website I posted it said the transitional tag is hardly ever used because teams can negotiate and if they sign the player the other team gets no compensation. 

 

If they negotiate and sign under the non exclusive rules and sign him they have to give up two first round picks.  If you were a GM would you not want to try and do that?  But there is absolutely no guarantee that is going to happen.

 

When a team franchises a player they don't say, "Let's see if we can get two first round picks."  Its a foregone conclusion they won't.  The sole purpose is to re-sign a player or trade him.

 

The transition tag essentially means that a team lets the player become a free agent, but they have the option to match his best offer.  It isn't used because if a team likes their own player enough to match his highest offer, he would have probably already been signed.  It also opens yourself up for teams driving up the price on you if you really like the player.

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