For your consideration
Making progress on UFA system, so we need to start working out some things.
This is the next item that should be on the agenda:
1. Waivers https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gkPBr6m1I-ZxQ27CiL3EJZ_Pw86cfDSD0WCHWVOs1VA/edit?usp=sharing
Waiver order according to 2nd round draft rankings (non-lottery round). Waiver order will be used for waiver claims, UFA tiebreaker, or any other situation where there is competition for a player's services.
- When more than one team has equal right to a player, the team with higher priority may evoke their waiver priority to break the tie. If the team with the highest priority chooses not to evoke their waiver priority, the option is given to the team with the next highest priority.
- If no team evokes waiver priority, the player goes to the team with the highest priority and does not cost them their position in the waiver order.
- When a team evokes waiver priority, they win the claim and are moved to the end of the waiver priority list.
Players submitted to waivers may not be withdrawn or traded until they have cleared waivers.
There will be separate threads for waiver submissions and waiver claims. Posts made in the wrong thread will be invalid.
2. Buyouts
Prior to free agency, teams will have the option of buying out players. You may not have more than 3 buyouts on your roster, so previously existing buyouts will count towards this limit. However, players who were bought out after the current season ended, will not count towards your roster. This is due to how Capfriendly manages rosters and will be adjusted when we calculate the free agency budget for each team.
Buyouts that show as $0 are still active and will count towards your limit of 3.
- Teams will place up to 3 players on waivers for the purpose of a buyout. All teams will have the option of claiming these players, with no compensation to their current team.
- In order to claim a player, you will have to evoke your waiver priority, regardless of whether there is another team competing for that player's services, but only the team which successfully claims the player will end up using their waiver priority.
- Claimed players will be traded to their new team for free and will not need to be bought out. They will retain their current contract terms (AAV and Term).
- Unclaimed players may then be bought out as normal on their rosters and will be added to the free agent pool.
- There will be a separate thread for official buyouts after the waiver period has ended. Only players that were previously passed through waivers will be eligible.
- This will be the only buyout period before free agency.
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Waiver Submissions Thread
Deadline to place players on waivers for buyout purposes: ???
Waiver Order:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gkPBr6m1I-ZxQ27CiL3EJZ_Pw86cfDSD0WCHWVOs1VA/edit?usp=sharing
To claim a player: (Link to waiver claims thread)
You may submit a maximum of 3 players. These are players you are willing to release for free to another team. Do not submit a player you do not want to lose for nothing.
Once you have placed a player on waivers, all other teams have until (deadline) to place a claim on that player.
Only players that have been submitted to waivers will be eligible to be bought out before free agency.
Example:
Colorado
Matt Greene (RD): $2.5M x 1 year
Antti Niemi (G): $4.5M x 1 year
Andrew MacDonald (LD): $4.25M x 3 years
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Waiver Claims Thread
Deadline to place a claim on a player: ???
Waiver Order:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gkPBr6m1I-ZxQ27CiL3EJZ_Pw86cfDSD0WCHWVOs1VA/edit?usp=sharing
Players on waivers: (Link to waiver submissions thread)
You may submit a claim for a player in this thread. Post your team name and that you are making a claim, the player's current team, name, position, and contract. You can copy/paste this information from the waiver submissions post(s).
Example:
Columbus places a claim on ...
Colorado
Andrew MacDonald (LD): $4.25M x 3 years
At the deadline for claims, teams will be awarded the player(s) they have placed a claim on according to waiver priority order.
Once a team has successfully claimed a player, they will be moved to the end of the order.
Waiver claims and winners will be announced by the BOG once they have been finalized.