| Section 7: Free Agency System | |
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| Islanders GM | Mar 23 2011, 03:47 PM Post #1 |
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Section VII: Free Agency System ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When free agency opens, every team will have the ability to open a bid on a player. To open a bid on a player, a team must find the designated thread for that player in the Free Agency Lobby, and place a bid there. The post must contain the complete contract line that you wish to give a player which should include the players name, position, the point total of your offer (explained below), and the contract that you are offering the free agent. Players may have option year (TEAM ONLY) tacked onto their contract, as will be explained later in this post. Also in the bid, you must calculate the "Points" that you have offered a player. Each component of a contract gives different amounts of points. The points legend is as follows: QUOTE Money (X Millions) = X Points 1Year = .5 Points No Movement Clause = .5 Point Team Option = -.5 Point What this means is that a $2.7 million offer for 2 years gives 2.7 points for the contract and 1 point for the years for a total of 3.7 points. Contracts cannot be longer than 4 years, or 5 years with an option(s). An option however does count as (-0.5) point when making a deal. A No Movement clause means you can not trade or demote the player and can only be released after the first year of the contract. You may only have 1 no movement clause on your roster at any time. A proper, complete bid post would look like this (offer made in 2011): RW Matt Cooke $2.7M (2013) 2.7 (contract) + 1 (years) = 3.7 Points with a team option it would look like this; RW Matt Cooke $2.7M (2013-14T) 2.7 (contract + 1 (years) - (.5) TO = 3.2 Points You may also sign a player to a Paid Minors deal. This means that the player will not be placed on your 26 man roster if signed. Once a player is offered a major league deal by any team in that free agency year, he may not be offered a Paid Minors deal by anyone else even if it does total for more points than the major league offer. The maximum annual salary for a Paid Minors deal is $1,000,000. If you are offering a Paid Minors deal, the Bid Points that would normally be calculated are cut in half. This means that a 1 year, $400,000 Paid Minors deal would be .70 points (1 + .4 = 1.4 / 2 = .70) You may not exceed the salary cap with any pending bid. A bid that would put you over the salary cap will be thrown away as ineligible and the team that made the illegal bid will be hit with a cap penalty of 15% of the annual salary for the contract offered in the illegal bid and this penalty will last for as long as the contract was offered to last. Every bid must increase the previous bid by 10% of the previous bid's points. For instance, the next bid on Matt Cooke in the example above must be at least points, or (3.885 * 1.1). Lastly, you may not sign more than 25 free agents total in a single free agency. If a bid remains as the top bid for 24 hours, the player will go to the top-bidding team. We will go by NHL rules for retirement and overseas, if they are over 35 the contract will remain in force regardless of retirement or overseas, and under 35 you may drop the player free of penalty. Edited by Islanders GM, Nov 1 2011, 01:00 AM.
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