I see in the chat you were talking about me. Its always been the rule that as long as you notify the other gm its fine. This was pretty well covered when we had this come up last offseason. I dont see the issue here. I followed standard practice. If you dont want anyone ever backing out then the whole FA system needs to be overhauled. In real life a team could back out if they dont land such and such a FA as then it would make the other signing useless. In regards to Goose I'm pretty sure I backed out literally minutes after I made the bid so really no harm or foul.
Furthermore if you never want backing out then take the ebay style auction out of FA for the compensated players. There was no reaosn for me to hold the top bid on Vaio when I no longer could compete with the money offered on Reagan and Cruz. It should be that every team interested sends in an offer. The top 3 then get a reply back and a chance to send in another offer to outbid the top 3 offers. Then he replies back again saying who had the best bid and then goes to that team. That is the only proper way to avoid that situation.
Furthermore if you never want backing out then take the ebay style auction out of FA for the compensated players. There was no reaosn for me to hold the top bid on Vaio when I no longer could compete with the money offered on Reagan and Cruz. It should be that every team interested sends in an offer. The top 3 then get a reply back and a chance to send in another offer to outbid the top 3 offers. Then he replies back again saying who had the best bid and then goes to that team. That is the only proper way to avoid that situation.