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Rules of Free Agency

Free Agency begins Tuesday February 26th 12:01 am (Eastern)
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1. If you failed to report a player that should not be on the list (UFA, RFA), he is no longer on your team due to negligence on behalf of the GM. Time was given beforehand (3 weeks) and there is no excuse for it.

2. We use a bidding format in the free agency forum.

3. When a bid lasts 24 hours without being raised, the bidding team is awarded the player.

4. Minimum bid is 300K, there is no maximum bid.

5. Bid increments are the following:
--50,000 for players under 1,000,000.
--100,000 for players between 1,000,000 and 5,000,000.
--250,000 for players above 5,000,000.

6. You cannot go over the salary cap at anytime with your bids. If you need more room to make a bid, you must cut a player before placing that bid. If you go over cap, we will retract your most recent bids to put you under cap. If you go over cap the second time, all bids will be retracted.

7. You cannot have more than 10 bids simultaneously, if you do, you will forfeit all bids.

8. You cannot trade or cut players you sign in free agency. However, you may trade your franchised/transitioned players or RFA tenders that were not bid on during free agency.

9. You cannot retract bids without permission from a mod.

10. When bidding on restricted free agents: Restricted free agents that are not tendered become unrestricted free agents and the original team gets no compensation. If they have a low tender and a bid is not matched, the original team gets draft pick of the round the player was drafted in as compensation (i.e. Joe Blow was a 3rd round pick in 2001...Compensation is a 3rd round pick). If the player was undrafted, no compensation is awarded. A mid/low level tender has 2nd round compensation, a mid level tender has a 1st round compensation and a high level tender has 1st and 3rd round compensation.

11. Franchise/Transition players: When a franchise player receives a bid that is not matched the original team gets two first round picks as compensation. If the bidding team does not have two first round picks he must acquire them before bidding or workout acceptable compensation with the original team. Teams get no compensation for losing Transition players.

12. Please do not welcome players to your team in the player's position thread. It only makes a mess and we'll make a thread specifically for you to welcome your players.
 
Quick question.

For players that were worth 1 million+ you must increase by atleast? 100,000.00?
 
Majpain said:
Quick question.

For players that were worth 1 million+ you must increase by atleast? 100,000.00?
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Like players that were cut? No, basically every player can start out at 300K and be upped at 50K. But when the salary gets higher for a player, so do the increments. For example, if Michael Turner gets a 300K bid on him, you must raise it by at least 50K (so it'd be 350K). If he gets up to 1 million, then you must raise it by at least 100K (so therefore he'd be 1.1 mil, etc). But if he goes up to 5 million, you must raise it by at least 250K (it'd be 5.25 mil). This is mainly just to speed up the free agency process.
 
GridIronKing34 said:
Like players that were cut? No, basically every player can start out at 300K and be upped at 50K. But when the salary gets higher for a player, so do the increments. For example, if Michael Turner gets a 300K bid on him, you must raise it by at least 50K (so it'd be 350K). If he gets up to 1 million, then you must raise it by at least 100K (so therefore he'd be 1.1 mil, etc). But if he goes up to 5 million, you must raise it by at least 250K (it'd be 5.25 mil). This is mainly just to speed up the free agency process.
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Okay that makes perfect sense. Thank you :D
 
Is there any reasoning behind why a signed FA cannot be traded?
 
So people don't sign free agents for trade bait. It makes people think twice before putting their bid on a free agent. We've had guys in the past bid up the players then trade him off right away. We've also had guys sign a player at a high price then cut him after the draft when everyone is cap-strapped. That's why that rule is in place.
 
GridIronKing34 said:
So people don't sign free agents for trade bait. It makes people think twice before putting their bid on a free agent. We've had guys in the past bid up the players then trade him off right away. We've also had guys sign a player at a high price then cut him after the draft when everyone is cap-strapped. That's why that rule is in place.
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Yeah, that makes perfect sense to me... adds some realism to this thing :up:
 
Can you trade a Transition or Franchise player even if they were bid on?
 
as long as you match the offer that the other team bid on them it should be fine since they were your players to start with.

I think you can't trade a signed FA only if he were new to your team.
 
schisno said:
as long as you match the offer that the other team bid on them it should be fine since they were your players to start with.

I think you can't trade a signed FA only if he were new to your team.
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That's how I took it, and I think it makes the most sense.
 
Yes it does!!! Only 6 1/2 hours to go!
 
I'm starting to hear the jeopardy song in the distance.....
 
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