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mikey Dec 22 2010, 07:39 PM Post #1
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FREE AGENCY BIDDING TEMPLATE
When submitting free agency bids, please use the following template:
Max Length: ie 6 yrs
Max Raises: ie 10% of first years salary
Max Starting Salary: cap space amount, MLE, LLE, Maximum or Minimum.


FREE AGENCY FAQs

PLAYER RESIGNING OFFERS:

Here's how it works.
Players interested in extensions will submit you an offer. You either accept or decline the offer, there is no negotiation. If you accept the offer, they are signed to that contract, if you decline the offer, they become unrestricted free agents (bird rules still apply for what contract you can offer).
Only players who have 3+ bird years will be able to be extended. Players with less than 3 bird years can be re-signed after the draft in the free agency period.
I will be sending you your decisions via PM's. Reply with which ones you accept.
If you don't respond by until the day indicated on the League schedule, all of your free agents will enter free agency.

FREE AGENCY:

There are 5 days of free agency. Not all free agents will immediately make their decision. Some will take all 5 days. If you don't PM me to change your offer, your offer stands from one day to the next.
If you want your bids canceled, you must specify. If on day 2 you send me a list of bids, if you don’t specifically tell me to cancel your outstanding bids, those bids will carry over. You cannot make 2 offers to one player. If you submit an offer to a player you’ve already made an offer to, the newest offer will go to him, the previous offer will be canceled/replaced.

I cannot do tiered offerings. Meaning I can't do something like "offer this guy x amount of dollars, and if he turns it down offer this guy the same thing". I offer all the contracts at once, you have to be prepared to accept the consequences if they accept. If you don't want a guy to accept until you know another guy has turned you down, wait and offer your second guy the contract after your first priority has signed somewhere.
Also, you can only have 15 players on a roster at any time. If you have 15, a player can't accept your free agent offer. If you have 14, and a free agent accepts your offer, then no other free agent can accept your offer. Make room on your roster accordingly.

Just remember, every offer you have made will stay up until FA DAY 5 as long as you don't cancel it. So if you send new offers in I will take these as ADDITIONS unless you either
- cancel specific old offers (like: remove offer for Paul Pierce)
- cancel ALL old offers (like: all offers I made so far are canceled) or
- submit a new offer for a player (in that case his old offer is overwritten.

FREE AGENT CONTRACT TERMS

For Teams OVER The Cap:


If you are re-signing your own player (with 3+ bird years)
Quote:
 
Max Length: 7 years
Max Raises: 12.5% of first years salary
Max Starting Salary: League Maximum or 120% of his prior years salary, whichever is greater. You may also offer them the MLE or LLE. Check table below based on experience

If you are re-signing your own player (less than 3 bird years)
Quote:
 
Max Length: 6 years
Max Raises: 10% of first years salary
Max Starting Salary: 120% of his previous years salary (or you can use an exception, MLE, LLE or Minimum)

If you are signing a new player
Quote:
 
MLE: 1 year contract @ 4.5 million
LLE: 1 year contract @ 1.2 million
(each of these can be used once per season. You can't offer them less than the exception, or a portion of the exceptions, just the full exceptions. Players signed with the MLE or LLE can't be traded until their exception contract expires)
Minimum salary exception: Minimum Salary (based on experience, see table below) for 1 year.


For Teams UNDER The Cap

*NOTE* If you have less than the value of either the MLE or LLE, you can use that exception, pursuant to the terms listed below.

Re-signing your own free agents (3+ bird years)
Quote:
 
Max Length: 7 years
Max Raises: 12.5% of first years salary
Max Starting Salary: Maximum available cap room (up to the maximum based on experience, see table below) or 120% of his prior years salary, whichever is greater.



Re-signing your own free agents (less than 3 bird years)
Quote:
 
Max Length: 6 years
Max Raises: 10% of first years salary
Max Starting Salary: 120% of previous years salary, or amount of cap space you have (not higher than the maximum allowed based on experience, as listed in table below), whichever's higher.


Signing a new player
Quote:
 
Max Length: 6 years
Max Raises: 10% of first years salary
Max Starting Salary: Amount of cap space you have, up to the maximum allowed based on experience (see table below).


Exceptions
There are 3 exceptions that can be used for teams over the salary cap (or teams under the salary cap by less than these exceptions, individually, are worth).

MLE (Mid-Level Exception)
Worth: 4.5 million (no more, no less. Can only be exact amount)
Duration: 1 year max
Can be used once every year.
Players cannot be traded while signed to MLE.
The following year can be offered a contract starting at 120% of the MLE for up to 6 years.

LLE (Low-Level Exception)
Worth: 1.2 million (No more, no less. Can only be exact amount)
Duration: 1 year max
Can be used once ever year.
Cannot be traded while signed to LLE.
The following year can be offered a contract starting at 120% of the LLE for up to 6 years.

Minimum Exception
1 year contract.
Salary determined by experience of the player (chart here)
Can be included in trades
The following year can be offered a contract starting at 120% of previous years salary for up to 6 years.

Can I Split Exceptions?
Under no circumstances can the MLE, LLE or veterans minimum exceptions be split to be used on multiple players.

How do Free Agents Decide?

Free Agents make their decisions on who they want to sign with based on the following 3 criteria: “Greed” (how much money the contract is for), “Loyalty” (returning to the team he was just on or going to his hometown) and “Play For Winner” (Desire to play on a winning team). Each player weighs these attributes differently, some care more about winning than others, etc. How much they care about these attributes are listed on their players page, rated on a 1-100 scale (1 being someone who cares about the attribute the least, 100 the most).
“Greed”
A person with a high greed rating will care about how much money the contract is for, and may tend to sign to the highest bidder.

“Loyalty”
Two things draw free agents with a high loyalty rating. First, a player with a high loyalty rating is more likely to return to his own team. Two, a person with a high loyalty rating may favor his hometown team.

“Play for Winner”
Each team is given a “Win Rating” (you can view this by going to your team roster page, then clicking Team History). A player with a high “Play for Winner” attribute is going to care about going to a team with a high Win Rating.

BIRD YEARS
Bird Years are listed are listed on a players profile under “Contract”. Bird years are the number of years a player goes without changing teams through free agency,in regular season or offseason. When a player is traded or re-signed he retains his bird years. It affects the re-signing of players, specifically for teams over the salary cap.

Less than 3 Bird Years
A player with less than 3 bird years can be signed by his previous team at 120% of his prior salary for up to 6 years (the team may also use Exceptions, with the same rules applying). This is beneficial because typically if you are over the salary cap you cannot give him more than the Exceptions. Now, if your player had previously made 6 million, you can give him a contract starting at 7.2 million and for up to 6 years (for other teams over the cap, the highest they can offer him is the MLE for 1 year @ 4.5 million).

More than 3 Bird Years
For players with more than 3 bird years, you can offer them up to the maximum salary allowed based on experience, regardless of how much cap room you have.

Restricted Free Agency?

There is no restricted free agency in this simulation. If a guy enters the free agent market (meaning he isn’t given a contract extension at the end of the year), he can sign with anyone, without giving you the chance to match an offer.

After Day 5 of Free Agency
After the 5 days of free agency and training camp have been simmed, you can sign any player still available to a 1 year, minimum salary contract. These are not biddings, the players automatically accept. The signing of players at this point comes on a first come, first serve basis. This is how you can fill out your remaining roster spots if players haven't accepted your offers in free agency.

Here's how bird years affect a player's chances of SENDING a re-signing offer:

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When you have cap space available, then a player with less than 3 bird years might send a resign offer.
When you have NO cap space available pretty much ONLY players with 3 or more bird years might send an offer.
I think I have seen one or two exceptions to that in like 30 sim seasons anywhere. There's nothing definite, just probability towards these offers.



SALARY CHART BASED ON EXPERIENCE:

Quote:
 
Experience | Minimum | Maximum |
00 | $332,817 |$14,511,000|
01 | $465,850 |$14,511,000|
02 | $540,850 |$14,511,000|
03 | $565,850 |$14,511,000|
04 | $590,850 |$14,511,000|
05 | $653,350 |$14,511,000|
06 | $715,850 |$14,511,000|
07 | $778,350 |$17,413,200|
08 | $840,850 |$17,413,200|
09 | $965,850 |$17,413,200|
10 | $1,000,000 |$20,315,400|


To find the maximum in any league follow the following formulas:

0-6 Experience: League Cap / 4
7-9 Experience: League Cap / 3.3333333333
10+ Experience: League Cap / 2.85714286

*Make sure you divided it by 10/3 and not 3.
Edited by mikey, Dec 30 2010, 12:01 PM.
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