GridIronKing34
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Rules of Free Agency
Free Agency begins Sunday March 4th 12:01 am (Eastern)
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.
2. We use a bidding format in the free agency forum.
3. When a bid lasts 24hrs without being matched, the bidding team is awarded the player.
4. Minimum bid is 300K, there is no maximum bid.
5. You must increase bids by no less than 50K when a player is under a million. When he is over a million, bidding must increase by at least 100K. When 5 million is reached, 250K is the minimum raise.
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 prior to placing a bid.
7. You cannot have more than 10 bids simultaneously.
8. You cannot trade or cut players you sign in 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.
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.