GM Game Free Agency
Submitting the Bid
1. Submit the player name, salary per year (AAV), and number of years (Term) you wish to sign a player for. You may not submit a term greater than outlined below, based on the AAV of your offer.
1 year deal - AAV Range : 650,000 - 1,500,000
2 year deal - AAV Range : 1,500,000 - 2,500,000
3 year deal - AAV Range : 2,500,000 - 4,000,000
4 year deal - AAV Range : 4,000,000 - 5,250,000
5 year deal - AAV Range : 5,250,000 - 6,500,000
6 year deal - AAV Range : 6,500,000 - 7,750,000
7 year deal - AAV Range : 7,500,000 - 10,007,692
2. If a player falls between the following age groups, these are the term and AAV restrictions:
35-38 - AAV Range : 650,000 - 7,000,000 ; Year Range : 1-3
38-40 - AAV Range : 650,000 - 6,000,000 ; Year Range : 1-2
40+ - AAV Range : 650,000 - 5,000,000 ; Year Range : 1
*Improper Bids will result in automatic disqualification from signing a particular player*
Proper Bid : Vegas Golden Knights - Pepe Silvia : 4,125,000 AAV x 4 years
Improper Bid : Vegas Golden Knights - Pepe Silvia : 2,500,000 AAV x 4 years
Determining Highest Bid
1. The highest bid is determined as the highest total of AAV * Term submitted by a team. If multiple teams are tied for the highest total, they all proceed with their attempt to sign the player. This includes ties in total where the contract terms are different.
2. The contract terms (AAV and Term) that were determined to be the highest bid(s), become that player's Demands for the remainder of the signing process. Multiple contracts with different terms mean the player will accept either, at the option of the team the player agrees to sign with.
Special Rights For Home and Vegas
1. The Home team, or the team currently owning the rights to the player, has the ability to match the highest bid and sign that player to a contract.
2. Vegas has the option of matching (or outbidding, when against the Home team) the highest bid and signing that player to a contract, provided the highest bid does not originate with a team Vegas had a prior expansion agreement restricting them to selecting a certain player from that team's roster during the expansion process. (Agreeing to select a specific player was also a tacit agreement to not negotiate with that team's FA's.)
3. In order for either Home or Vegas to retain their rights to match, they must also have submitted a bid on that player equal to at least 50% of the highest bid for that player in terms of AAV.
4. Home team gets 10% discount of the best offer if the best offer isn’t theirs. They can then match the discounted offer and keep their player, or let the opposing team get the played that was bid on at the original bid.
Determining Where A Player Signs
The highest bid(s) in total value represents the contract(s) which the player will accept/sign. The team offering the final contract is determined as follows:
1. If the Home team and/or Vegas have retained their rights, they may each agree to match the total value and become the highest bid. This eliminates the other participants with no rights. In the case of Vegas, all of the eliminated teams are removed from their expansion priority list.
a) If the Home team is still a participant, Vegas may raise the AAV of the contract by a minimum of 250,000 to become the highest bid. This removes the Home team from their expansion priority list.
b) The Home team has the option of matching the new contract value offered by Vegas and become the highest bid. This eliminates Vegas.
2. If there is a tie for highest bid, the team with waiver priority may evoke their priority and sign the player. If they do not, the next team with waiver priority is given the same option. If no team evokes their waiver priority, the first team may sign the player without evoking their priority. All other teams are eliminated once waiver priority is evoked, or the player has been offered to all teams and none have chosen to evoke priority.
3. The team with the right to now sign the player, may choose which set of terms specified by the highest bid(s). (Only terms submitted as part of the bidding process are eligible.) That team may now add that player to their roster with the appropriate contract.
Tiebreak Order
1. Waiver order according to 2nd round draft rankings (non-lottery round). Waiver order will be used for waiver claims, FA tiebreaker, or any other situation where there is competition for a player's services.
a)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.
b)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.
c)When a team evokes waiver priority, they win the claim and are moved to the end of the waiver priority list.
2. In the event that teams are tied with the same AAV value (1.5 x 2 and 1.5 x 3), the team with more years wins the bid.
Buyouts
1. Prior to free agency, teams will have the option of buying out players. There will be a limit of two buyouts for each team during this period.
a)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.
b)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.
c)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).
d)Unclaimed players may then be bought-out as normal on their rosters and will be added to the free agent pool.
FA Budget
Teams will have a budget entering free agency. In order to establish a team's UFA budget, they must reduce their roster to a 23 player compliance. The budget will then be calculated as follows:
a)Current remaining cap space
b)You are permitted to go over the cap ceiling by 10% or a to a max cap of 83.6 million. You must be within the cap floor and ceiling by the start of the GM Game for 2017-2018
FA Setup
1. Each team will publish an entire and complete list of the FAs that they wish to place bids on.
*You will not have a chance to edit your post*
*Publish a list of all the players you wish to bid on, you will not have the opportunity to bid on them if you do not publish the list prior to the start of FA Period*
a)Failure to publish your FA list will result in termination from FA Period. You will have no opportunity to place bids on any FA. NO EXCEPTIONS
List Submission Template
Vegas Golden Knights - Forwards (4) ; Defensemen (2) ; Goalies (0)
F: Pepe Silvia - Chalpua Batman - Sam Hinkie - Ferris Bueller
D: Billy Madison - Bill Burr
2. After all lists are published, the BOG will then calculate the most popular FA, and the player deemed most wanted, will be the first player that is to be bidded on. A runoff with be used after that, following with the next popular player.
a)in the event that only one team has listed a player, for example, COL is the only team to list Chalupa Batman. They then have the opportunity to sign them to a deal of their choosing, under the restrictions of the AAV Range/Year Chart.
Sign and Trade
1. Each team will have the opportunity to exercise their right to a Sign and Trade. You may only make Sign and Trades if you own the player’s rights prior to the start of Free Agency.
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