Post by Commish on Dec 30, 2009 11:38:54 GMT -5
The Basics-
Free agency will simply be by a bidding process. There will be 3 parts to a bid, the annual salary, the roster bonus (per yr) and the length. After any team bids on a player, the remaining 31 teams will have 24 hours to increase the bid. To increase the bid you must either increase the annual salary or the roster bonus by AT LEAST 10% of the previous bid. There is no limit to annual salary, there is a maximum of $4 mil/yr on the roster bonus, and a 4 year limit on the length of a deal. If no team increases the bid within 24 hours, the player signs with the highest bidding team. You may not decrease any part of the bid, Sal, RB, or Length.
More on bidding at bottom...
Roster Bonus-
The roster bonus is the equivalent of guaranteed money in an NFL contract. The RB on a player’s contract is the money you HAVE to pay him. You pay the player a flat yearly RB rate. However, if you cut or trade this player, you must pay his entire RB.
You have the option to pay this all in one year, or split it over two. You must specify when cutting/trading the player. This then is tacked onto your cap hits section of your roster. A player going to a new team in a trade that had RB on his contract is paid by the old team and does not carry over to the new team.
**New**
(example)
If a team wins a bid of
Salary - 3 mil
RB - 4 mil
Length - 4yrs
The team would have to pay 16 mil in the form of a cap hit for dropping or trading said player (This is 4 mil yearly roster bonus * 4 yrs in length). They can split this
In addition the player will cost 7mil per year against the winning teams cap (3 mil base salary + 4 mil yearly roster bonus)
Unrestricted Free Agents-
Unrestricted free agents are any players going into free agency that are not franchise or transition tagged (which will be explained below). These players go straight into the free agency pool and can be signed by anyone like regular free agents as explained above.
Franchise Tag-
Just like the NFL, teams will be given one franchise tag to use on one of their players entering free agency. This is an optional tag where you will sign the designated player to a 1 year deal with an annual salary of the average of the top 5 paid players at his position. There will be NO RB for Franchise tagged players. However, the contract extension CANNOT be used on Franchise tagged players. Franchise tagged players may not be tagged for more than two years.
You cannot bend the rule to your advantage, a player cannot be traded around and franchised another 2 yrs. it's twice per player. You cannot Franchise a player twice, resign him with your Transition Tag, and Franchise him again after the deal expires.
Transition Tag/Restricted Free Agents
Teams will be given one transition tag to place on one of their players entering free agency. Unlike the Franchise tag, this does NOT guarantee the signing of that player. These players will go into free agency like normal and be bid on like normal. But after the player was been bid on and no team has matched the bid, the original team the player belonged to that tagged him will have one week to match the offer at 90% the yearly salary, the same RB, and same length.
In short, you guarantee yourself a chance to resign your player at 90% of the yearly salary.
Contract Restructure-
Teams will be able to restructure one players contract every year. What they can do is cut the players salary in half this year and pay the other half (plus his regular annual salary) next year and vice-versa. If a player is signed to $4 mil/yr and you restructure his contract you can pay $2 mil this year and $6 mil next year. OR you can pay $6 mil this year and $2 mil next year. If that player is cut/traded early there will be a cap penalty of 50%, which is essentially the rest of the contract. IE. if you structure a contract to pay 2 mil this year and 6 mil next, but cut them before paying the full 6 mil for the season. You would receive a 2 mil cap hit essentially to pay that player off, trading him would result in the same, once traded the players price returns to his previous amount. (added 1/16/12)
These usually take place Sat. to Sat. the last week of Aug. right before the season starts
You cannot Restructure someone in the last year of their contract. Unless you plan on paying it back to them next year, in the form of a cap hit. (added 8/31/13)
Contract Extension-
Teams will also get 1 contract extension every year. This player must currently be under contract and can be extended for up to 4 years adding up to a 5 year contract after the extension. Depending on the players rank from the past year (all 17 weeks worth) (we take the higher, either overall rank or points per week) he gets a certain raise using the pay raise scale posted on the bottom of this section.
--NEW--
If a player was hurt all year, instead of being able to extend him at the lowest price we will average what his extension should be from the last 2 or 3 years. IE a player was 3rd in pts. per game 2 years ago, but hurt all of last year, his pay raise for this year would be the average of $2,250,000 and $250,000.
Some of the ‘pay raise’ is converted to RB, and that will apply as follows-
- If the player is extended 1 year – 30% of the pay raise becomes RB – 70% is added to annual salary
- If the player is extended 2 years – 25% of the pay raise becomes RB – 75% is added to annual salary
- If the player is extended 3-4 years – 20% of the pay raise becomes RB – 80% is added to annual salary
EXAMPLE--- Player A played 8 games last season, in our scoring format last year was ranked 73rd in total points for his position. He was also ranked 2nd however in points per game for his position. Because we take the higher rank, he would be considered #2 rank. Using the scale, this means his ‘pay raise’ is $2.375 mil/yr.
Say he has one year left and makes $4.5 mil/yr with no RB. Team A wants to give him a four year extension so 20% of the ‘pay raise is converted to RB, the other 80% is tacked onto the annual salary.
Before the extension-
salary- 4.5 mil
rb-0
length 1 year
After the extension-
salary= 4.5 + (2.35 x .8) = 6.38 or $6,380,000
rb= (2.35 x .2) = .47 or $470,000
length= 5 years
Pay Raise Scale-
1- $2,500,000
2- $2,350,000
3- $2,250,000
4- $2,150,000
5- $2,050,000
6- $2,000,000
7- $1,950,000
8- $1,900,000
9- $1,800,000
10-$1,750,000
11-$1,700,000
12-$1,650,000
13-$1,600,000
14,$1,550,000
15-$1,500,000
16-$1,475,000
17-$1,450,000
18-$1,425,000
19-$1,400,000
20-$1,350,000
21-$1,325,000
22-$1,300,000
23-$1,275,000
24-$1,250,000
25-$1,200,000
26-$1,175,000
27-$1,150,000
28-$1,125,000
29-$1,100,000
30-$1,075,000
31-$1,050,000
32-$1,025,000
33-$1,000,000
34-$950,000
35-$900,000
36-$875,000
37-$850,000
38-$800,000
39-$775,000
40-$750,000
41-$700,000
42-$675,000
43-$650,000
44-$625,000
45-$600,000
46-$575,000
47-$550,000
48-$525,000
49-$500,000
50-$480,000
51-$460,000
52-$440,000
53-$420,000
54-$400,000
55-$380,000
56-$360,000
57-$340,000
58-$320,000
59-$300,000
60-$280,000
61-$260,000
62+- $250,000
Roster Limits & Penalties
During the season you are allowed to have 24 players on your roster
In the off-season you may have 30 players.
At the end of the Wk 4 Preseason game you must cut back down to 24 players. If not teams will be assessed 5 pts each day late. If a team is not cut down the end of the 7th day. And new teams will be given the chance to cut back and avoid those penalties.
Teams must also be under the cap limit (starts at 72 mil) 1hr before Week 1's regular season game. If not a 15 pt penalty may be assessed.
If a player submits an illegal lineup the extra players points will be removed. For example you can submit 2 RB's and 1 WR or 1 RB and 2 WR's, so you have a RB/WR flex. If you submit 1 RB and 3 WR's your highest scoring WR will be removed. If you submit 2 RB's and 2 WR's your top WR or RB will be removed, so essentially the top flex will be removed.
Retirements
After a player retires in the NFL and is still under contract in our league and an owner cuts him, staff will vote whether the RB has to be paid off on the retired player or not. Typically, if it’s from old age (like Favre or other players) there will be no RB exemption given.
The purpose of this is to give teams a cap break when dropping players that retire from unlikely circumstances (like Chris Henry, Plaxico Burress, or Bo Jackson). If the player retiring is on a staff member’s roster, that staff member will not take part of vote for the RB exemption.
More Bidding Rules
- If a post is modified by the original poster....the 24 hour clock starts from the modification time. this helps encourage owners to catch their own editing mistakes and clarify them quickly...so as to not drastically effect their 24 hour clock. (This def. does not include modifying Sal though) (If a salary mistake is made and instantly fixed then no one knows) (But if a salary mistake is made and fixed any time later than after a few minutes that again is not allowed)
- If STAFF modifies their own post they are subject to the same 24 clock starts from when their modification occurred.
- In the past some owners choose to recreate another bid to make the correction...and the 24 hour clock would start from that time so it is basically the same for a modification to original post...just less messy on the thread.
- STAFF can and will modify some post's if/when a player is signed or if clarification is needed. These will not affect timer, unless again it is on their own post, and it is the last post...
- Also, on a side note, if you are at your roster limit, whether 24 in-season or 30 off-season, you must post a player you wish to cut if you bid on a free agent and you are at the max player limit. This prevents teams from going over the roster limit.
- Shouldn't have to say this but there is no deleting bids, you post and it stays. 1st offense is a 24 hr suspension from bidding on proboards, 2nd offense will be longer.
- The limit is 5 bids per day. 6th will be revoked
- Bid is ok if this is not there but, please note your bids 3/4 #1, 3/4 #2, 3/4 #3 ect. Next day 3/5 #1 ect...it will help, not only us, but yourself.
- You can re-bid on top of your own player, especially if it's a transition tagged player, that you feel may not be high enough.
- Being that it is 4 yrs now not 5 has thrown some people off, if the bid is written wrong you will need to re-bid, this has been done this way for many people, we can not bend it. I know it's just a mistake typing 5, but we can't just assume, rules have to be the same every time...
- In the past we've always taken bids that say something like 250k 4yrs. Everyone assumes ok that's 0k RB, but it has come to my attention that we need to be more strict and Bids have to be all the same now, including 0k if you don't want any...
Free agency will simply be by a bidding process. There will be 3 parts to a bid, the annual salary, the roster bonus (per yr) and the length. After any team bids on a player, the remaining 31 teams will have 24 hours to increase the bid. To increase the bid you must either increase the annual salary or the roster bonus by AT LEAST 10% of the previous bid. There is no limit to annual salary, there is a maximum of $4 mil/yr on the roster bonus, and a 4 year limit on the length of a deal. If no team increases the bid within 24 hours, the player signs with the highest bidding team. You may not decrease any part of the bid, Sal, RB, or Length.
More on bidding at bottom...
Roster Bonus-
The roster bonus is the equivalent of guaranteed money in an NFL contract. The RB on a player’s contract is the money you HAVE to pay him. You pay the player a flat yearly RB rate. However, if you cut or trade this player, you must pay his entire RB.
You have the option to pay this all in one year, or split it over two. You must specify when cutting/trading the player. This then is tacked onto your cap hits section of your roster. A player going to a new team in a trade that had RB on his contract is paid by the old team and does not carry over to the new team.
**New**
(example)
If a team wins a bid of
Salary - 3 mil
RB - 4 mil
Length - 4yrs
The team would have to pay 16 mil in the form of a cap hit for dropping or trading said player (This is 4 mil yearly roster bonus * 4 yrs in length). They can split this
In addition the player will cost 7mil per year against the winning teams cap (3 mil base salary + 4 mil yearly roster bonus)
Unrestricted Free Agents-
Unrestricted free agents are any players going into free agency that are not franchise or transition tagged (which will be explained below). These players go straight into the free agency pool and can be signed by anyone like regular free agents as explained above.
Franchise Tag-
Just like the NFL, teams will be given one franchise tag to use on one of their players entering free agency. This is an optional tag where you will sign the designated player to a 1 year deal with an annual salary of the average of the top 5 paid players at his position. There will be NO RB for Franchise tagged players. However, the contract extension CANNOT be used on Franchise tagged players. Franchise tagged players may not be tagged for more than two years.
You cannot bend the rule to your advantage, a player cannot be traded around and franchised another 2 yrs. it's twice per player. You cannot Franchise a player twice, resign him with your Transition Tag, and Franchise him again after the deal expires.
Transition Tag/Restricted Free Agents
Teams will be given one transition tag to place on one of their players entering free agency. Unlike the Franchise tag, this does NOT guarantee the signing of that player. These players will go into free agency like normal and be bid on like normal. But after the player was been bid on and no team has matched the bid, the original team the player belonged to that tagged him will have one week to match the offer at 90% the yearly salary, the same RB, and same length.
In short, you guarantee yourself a chance to resign your player at 90% of the yearly salary.
Contract Restructure-
Teams will be able to restructure one players contract every year. What they can do is cut the players salary in half this year and pay the other half (plus his regular annual salary) next year and vice-versa. If a player is signed to $4 mil/yr and you restructure his contract you can pay $2 mil this year and $6 mil next year. OR you can pay $6 mil this year and $2 mil next year. If that player is cut/traded early there will be a cap penalty of 50%, which is essentially the rest of the contract. IE. if you structure a contract to pay 2 mil this year and 6 mil next, but cut them before paying the full 6 mil for the season. You would receive a 2 mil cap hit essentially to pay that player off, trading him would result in the same, once traded the players price returns to his previous amount. (added 1/16/12)
These usually take place Sat. to Sat. the last week of Aug. right before the season starts
You cannot Restructure someone in the last year of their contract. Unless you plan on paying it back to them next year, in the form of a cap hit. (added 8/31/13)
Contract Extension-
Teams will also get 1 contract extension every year. This player must currently be under contract and can be extended for up to 4 years adding up to a 5 year contract after the extension. Depending on the players rank from the past year (all 17 weeks worth) (we take the higher, either overall rank or points per week) he gets a certain raise using the pay raise scale posted on the bottom of this section.
--NEW--
If a player was hurt all year, instead of being able to extend him at the lowest price we will average what his extension should be from the last 2 or 3 years. IE a player was 3rd in pts. per game 2 years ago, but hurt all of last year, his pay raise for this year would be the average of $2,250,000 and $250,000.
Some of the ‘pay raise’ is converted to RB, and that will apply as follows-
- If the player is extended 1 year – 30% of the pay raise becomes RB – 70% is added to annual salary
- If the player is extended 2 years – 25% of the pay raise becomes RB – 75% is added to annual salary
- If the player is extended 3-4 years – 20% of the pay raise becomes RB – 80% is added to annual salary
EXAMPLE--- Player A played 8 games last season, in our scoring format last year was ranked 73rd in total points for his position. He was also ranked 2nd however in points per game for his position. Because we take the higher rank, he would be considered #2 rank. Using the scale, this means his ‘pay raise’ is $2.375 mil/yr.
Say he has one year left and makes $4.5 mil/yr with no RB. Team A wants to give him a four year extension so 20% of the ‘pay raise is converted to RB, the other 80% is tacked onto the annual salary.
Before the extension-
salary- 4.5 mil
rb-0
length 1 year
After the extension-
salary= 4.5 + (2.35 x .8) = 6.38 or $6,380,000
rb= (2.35 x .2) = .47 or $470,000
length= 5 years
Pay Raise Scale-
1- $2,500,000
2- $2,350,000
3- $2,250,000
4- $2,150,000
5- $2,050,000
6- $2,000,000
7- $1,950,000
8- $1,900,000
9- $1,800,000
10-$1,750,000
11-$1,700,000
12-$1,650,000
13-$1,600,000
14,$1,550,000
15-$1,500,000
16-$1,475,000
17-$1,450,000
18-$1,425,000
19-$1,400,000
20-$1,350,000
21-$1,325,000
22-$1,300,000
23-$1,275,000
24-$1,250,000
25-$1,200,000
26-$1,175,000
27-$1,150,000
28-$1,125,000
29-$1,100,000
30-$1,075,000
31-$1,050,000
32-$1,025,000
33-$1,000,000
34-$950,000
35-$900,000
36-$875,000
37-$850,000
38-$800,000
39-$775,000
40-$750,000
41-$700,000
42-$675,000
43-$650,000
44-$625,000
45-$600,000
46-$575,000
47-$550,000
48-$525,000
49-$500,000
50-$480,000
51-$460,000
52-$440,000
53-$420,000
54-$400,000
55-$380,000
56-$360,000
57-$340,000
58-$320,000
59-$300,000
60-$280,000
61-$260,000
62+- $250,000
Roster Limits & Penalties
During the season you are allowed to have 24 players on your roster
In the off-season you may have 30 players.
At the end of the Wk 4 Preseason game you must cut back down to 24 players. If not teams will be assessed 5 pts each day late. If a team is not cut down the end of the 7th day. And new teams will be given the chance to cut back and avoid those penalties.
Teams must also be under the cap limit (starts at 72 mil) 1hr before Week 1's regular season game. If not a 15 pt penalty may be assessed.
If a player submits an illegal lineup the extra players points will be removed. For example you can submit 2 RB's and 1 WR or 1 RB and 2 WR's, so you have a RB/WR flex. If you submit 1 RB and 3 WR's your highest scoring WR will be removed. If you submit 2 RB's and 2 WR's your top WR or RB will be removed, so essentially the top flex will be removed.
Retirements
After a player retires in the NFL and is still under contract in our league and an owner cuts him, staff will vote whether the RB has to be paid off on the retired player or not. Typically, if it’s from old age (like Favre or other players) there will be no RB exemption given.
The purpose of this is to give teams a cap break when dropping players that retire from unlikely circumstances (like Chris Henry, Plaxico Burress, or Bo Jackson). If the player retiring is on a staff member’s roster, that staff member will not take part of vote for the RB exemption.
More Bidding Rules
- If a post is modified by the original poster....the 24 hour clock starts from the modification time. this helps encourage owners to catch their own editing mistakes and clarify them quickly...so as to not drastically effect their 24 hour clock. (This def. does not include modifying Sal though) (If a salary mistake is made and instantly fixed then no one knows) (But if a salary mistake is made and fixed any time later than after a few minutes that again is not allowed)
- If STAFF modifies their own post they are subject to the same 24 clock starts from when their modification occurred.
- In the past some owners choose to recreate another bid to make the correction...and the 24 hour clock would start from that time so it is basically the same for a modification to original post...just less messy on the thread.
- STAFF can and will modify some post's if/when a player is signed or if clarification is needed. These will not affect timer, unless again it is on their own post, and it is the last post...
- Also, on a side note, if you are at your roster limit, whether 24 in-season or 30 off-season, you must post a player you wish to cut if you bid on a free agent and you are at the max player limit. This prevents teams from going over the roster limit.
- Shouldn't have to say this but there is no deleting bids, you post and it stays. 1st offense is a 24 hr suspension from bidding on proboards, 2nd offense will be longer.
- The limit is 5 bids per day. 6th will be revoked
- Bid is ok if this is not there but, please note your bids 3/4 #1, 3/4 #2, 3/4 #3 ect. Next day 3/5 #1 ect...it will help, not only us, but yourself.
- You can re-bid on top of your own player, especially if it's a transition tagged player, that you feel may not be high enough.
- Being that it is 4 yrs now not 5 has thrown some people off, if the bid is written wrong you will need to re-bid, this has been done this way for many people, we can not bend it. I know it's just a mistake typing 5, but we can't just assume, rules have to be the same every time...
- In the past we've always taken bids that say something like 250k 4yrs. Everyone assumes ok that's 0k RB, but it has come to my attention that we need to be more strict and Bids have to be all the same now, including 0k if you don't want any...