Post by Phoenix Suns on Jan 27, 2009 19:23:24 GMT -5
In Season Free Agency Rules
Off-Season Free Agency Rules
Submitting Offers:
You may not offer a contract that is backloaded. These are the guidelines for maximum amount of raise allowed:
Salary Increase Scale:
Year 1 of contract: $2,500,000 or less= $500,000
Year 1 of contract: $2,500,001 to $6,000,000= $2,000,000
Year 1 of contract: $6,000,001 or more= $3,000,000
**Note: There is no limit to the amount a contract can decrease.**
Maximum Length For Contract: 6 years
Maximum Total For Contract: $120,000,000
Maximum Salary For 1 Season: $25,000,000
Minimum Salary For 1 Season: $500,000
Minimum Total For 1 Season: $500,000
Minimum Length For Contract: 1 year
Posting an Offer:
Create a thread in the 'Off-Season Free Agent Offers' board. Make sure you state the name and rating of the player you're bidding on, the salary you're willing to offer the player, your team's salary situation for each year of the contract you're offering.
Example template:
John Salmons - 74 (Offering: 15M for 3 years)
08/09: $5,000,000
09/10: $5,000,000
10/11: $5,000,000
Total Team Salary:
08/09: $63,500,000
09/10: $58,243,000
10/11: $24,453,000
Factors:
The highest salary will not necessarily win the services for a player. There are many factors that the agent considers such as the player's expected playing-time, position they'll be playing, a GM's history and experience and your team's chances of success are just as important.
Mid-Level Exception:
Lastly, you can only sign free agents using an exception if you are over the soft cap. You can sign rookies with the rookie exception, and other players to the $500K league minimum. In addition, you also have a Mid Level Exception (MLE) worth $5M which you can use. We aren't using Bi-annual and low level exceptions. Only teams over the soft cap before the contract extension period have the MLE.
Another exception you can use to go over the soft cap is the Larry Bird exception. The player in question must have played three seasons without being waived or changing teams as a free agent. Traded players have their bird rights traded with them.
- The players eligible for free agency include everyone who just finished a contract and was not signed to an extension and everyone listed in the official Free Agent List.
- To bid on a free agent, create a thread with his name as the subject, and in the body post your bid in years and total dollars.
- An offer must stand as the highest bid for 24 hours before it is accepted. An offer is the high bid if it contains the highest TOTAL dollar amount over the life of the contract.
- Contracts that GMs create in free agency are limited to being between 1 and 3 years in length.
- You may not sign a free agent if the signing takes your team over the cap. The only exception to this is if it is to the minimum contract ($500,000).
- The minimum you may offer a free agent is $500,000.
- The minimum increase when bidding against another team for a free agent is $100,000.
- If your team has more than 15 players on it's roster. You must first release a player before you can sign another.
- You must wait for your player to be recognized by a staff member as being released before starting a thread to bid on a free agent.
Off-Season Free Agency Rules
Submitting Offers:
You may not offer a contract that is backloaded. These are the guidelines for maximum amount of raise allowed:
Salary Increase Scale:
Year 1 of contract: $2,500,000 or less= $500,000
Year 1 of contract: $2,500,001 to $6,000,000= $2,000,000
Year 1 of contract: $6,000,001 or more= $3,000,000
**Note: There is no limit to the amount a contract can decrease.**
Maximum Length For Contract: 6 years
Maximum Total For Contract: $120,000,000
Maximum Salary For 1 Season: $25,000,000
Minimum Salary For 1 Season: $500,000
Minimum Total For 1 Season: $500,000
Minimum Length For Contract: 1 year
Posting an Offer:
Create a thread in the 'Off-Season Free Agent Offers' board. Make sure you state the name and rating of the player you're bidding on, the salary you're willing to offer the player, your team's salary situation for each year of the contract you're offering.
Example template:
John Salmons - 74 (Offering: 15M for 3 years)
08/09: $5,000,000
09/10: $5,000,000
10/11: $5,000,000
Total Team Salary:
08/09: $63,500,000
09/10: $58,243,000
10/11: $24,453,000
Factors:
The highest salary will not necessarily win the services for a player. There are many factors that the agent considers such as the player's expected playing-time, position they'll be playing, a GM's history and experience and your team's chances of success are just as important.
Mid-Level Exception:
Lastly, you can only sign free agents using an exception if you are over the soft cap. You can sign rookies with the rookie exception, and other players to the $500K league minimum. In addition, you also have a Mid Level Exception (MLE) worth $5M which you can use. We aren't using Bi-annual and low level exceptions. Only teams over the soft cap before the contract extension period have the MLE.
Another exception you can use to go over the soft cap is the Larry Bird exception. The player in question must have played three seasons without being waived or changing teams as a free agent. Traded players have their bird rights traded with them.
