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 : 4,000,000 AAV x 5 years
Improper Bid :
Vegas Golden Knights - Pepe Silvia : 2,500,000 AAV x 4 years
Determining Highest Bid
1. The team with the contract that has the highest total money, wins the bid. If a team has a bid of 5M x 4 years compared to a bid of 4M x 3 years, the first bid wins as it has the best value. In the event of a tie, see the “Tiebreak Order” section.
Special Rights For Home and Vegas
1. Vegas will have the opportunity to match and raise the highest bid by a maximum of $500,000
2. The Home team, or the team currently owning the rights to the player, has the ability to match Vegas's bid and sign that player to a contract. If the Home team abstains from bidding, Vegas gets the player
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. Section 3 is a prerequisite for being able to get the 10% discount
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. Order of teams that get priority of a FA:
a)The Home Team
b)if Home Team abstains, Vegas assumes Home’s Teams Rights and can match offers
c)the spread or field.
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.
Tiebreaker 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.
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
Forwards (3):
Pepe Silvia
Sam Hinkie
Michael Aquilini
Defensemen (2):
Jim Carrey
Steve Martin
Goalies (2):
Justin Adams
Chucky McChuckSkins
1. 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.
2. See Ricochetti’s Spreadsheet for how to bid on players privately
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.
2. No player signed in Free Agency may be traded until January 1, 2018, unless you own the rights to the player that you bid on
3. If you acquire a player that you did not own the rights to, you are allowed to work out a deal with the previous owner of the player to be able to move the player as compensation to the owner. The BOG must be notified of such a deal before it takes place
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Not voting on this yet as it still needs work. Just an update for all those wondering where we are at