Post by Chicago D'backs GM (Greg) on Aug 28, 2012 20:51:09 GMT -5
A FA bid must include the following to be considered valid:
*Number of years of the contract offer
*Total amount of the contract offer
*Average Annual Salary ("AAS")
*a breakdown of the contract per year or note it will be evenly spread.
Example:
Boston Red Sox offer Player A:
5 year contract worth $48M
AAS: $9.6M
2006 - $8M
2007 - $9M
2008 - $10M
2009 - $10M
2010 - $11M
In addition to Rule 7 minimum salary limits, the lowest/highest single year salary of a contract may not be less than 80% of AAS or more than 120% of AAS.
The maximum salary that maybe offered in a one year contract is 15M
Average Annual Salaries between 15-18M must be offered a minimum of 2 years.
Average Annual Salaries between 18-21M must be offered a minimum of 3 years.
Average Annual Salaries between 21-25M must be offered a minimum of 4 years.
Average Annual Salaries exceeding 25M annually must exceed 4 years in length, max length is 6 years.
PRIORITY LISTS
In some situations there may be more players up for bid than your roster/cap would allow you to sign, but you would like to take a stab at all of them in hopes of landing 1. In that case you may send a priority list.
Example- You want 1 of Player A, Player B, and Player C. You would make bids for all 3 with a message of your intent to win only 1 or 2 of these players. Send a list in the order you want to win them, and this will avoid going over roster limits, or your salary cap.
1. Player B
2. Player C
3. Player A
BIDDING SCHEDULE
Monday - Thursday until 11:59 PM EST - Players may be posted for bidding. Only players who are posted may be bid on.
Friday 11:59 PM EST - The deadline for bidding. The submitted bid via PM is date and time sensitive and it dictates if the bid is on time or late. Late bids will be invalidated. No exceptions.
Before Sunday 11:59 PM EST - Winning bids will be posted. Winning GM must update his roster and team salary information within 72 hours.
OFF-SEASON (beginning this off-season)
Salary cap and roster (# of players) limits will be handled differently in the off-season and in season.
During the off-season bidding, each calendar week will feature either Restricted Free Agents or a player position as a guideline to that week's bidding. You may ONLY bid on a player in that category that week.
All Restricted Free Agents ("RFAs") will be bid on in the first week of the auctions. Please carefully review all rules for bidding on RFA's as they are significantly different from unrestricted FA's.
Each week thereafter, a field position (i.e. OF, CI, MI, C, SP or RP) will be open for bidding. You will only be allowed to bid on players who played that position each week....i.e. only OF may be bid upon during a week designated for OF's. Bids on a player not at that position will be invalidated.
Adherence to the salary cap and roster sizes will be relaxed during the off-season only to allow some flexibility. Each GM will be allowed to carry up to 5 extra players at any point in time during the off-season. Each franchise will also be able to exceed their salary cap by up to $10M.
All salary caps and rosters must be in full compliance by the 2012 season's Opening Day (first MLB game of season). Failure to be in compliance will mean no stat accumulation on ESPN.
IN SEASON
Once the regular season begins, the process of FA bidding changes slightly.
Players at any position can be posted and bid on in any week.
Be careful to not exceed your salary cap. If this occurs, the commissioner’s office will send you an email mandating that your team make arrangements to waive players in order to bring the current salary within your team’s salary cap. You will have only 72-hours to do this. If you fail to comply, the League Office will take action and possibly drop your most recently signed player to free agency in order to bring your team under the required salary cap maximum. Or if you sign someone and you don't place him on your 65 man roster within 72 hours he becomes a free agent again. At this point the League Office will notify the league of the player who has recently become a free agent and list them under the area title “Player Releases”. The League Office will review each 90-man roster often to make sure you are complying with your team’s assigned salary cap. Remember that player’s salaries do change.
*Number of years of the contract offer
*Total amount of the contract offer
*Average Annual Salary ("AAS")
*a breakdown of the contract per year or note it will be evenly spread.
Example:
Boston Red Sox offer Player A:
5 year contract worth $48M
AAS: $9.6M
2006 - $8M
2007 - $9M
2008 - $10M
2009 - $10M
2010 - $11M
In addition to Rule 7 minimum salary limits, the lowest/highest single year salary of a contract may not be less than 80% of AAS or more than 120% of AAS.
The maximum salary that maybe offered in a one year contract is 15M
Average Annual Salaries between 15-18M must be offered a minimum of 2 years.
Average Annual Salaries between 18-21M must be offered a minimum of 3 years.
Average Annual Salaries between 21-25M must be offered a minimum of 4 years.
Average Annual Salaries exceeding 25M annually must exceed 4 years in length, max length is 6 years.
PRIORITY LISTS
In some situations there may be more players up for bid than your roster/cap would allow you to sign, but you would like to take a stab at all of them in hopes of landing 1. In that case you may send a priority list.
Example- You want 1 of Player A, Player B, and Player C. You would make bids for all 3 with a message of your intent to win only 1 or 2 of these players. Send a list in the order you want to win them, and this will avoid going over roster limits, or your salary cap.
1. Player B
2. Player C
3. Player A
BIDDING SCHEDULE
Monday - Thursday until 11:59 PM EST - Players may be posted for bidding. Only players who are posted may be bid on.
Friday 11:59 PM EST - The deadline for bidding. The submitted bid via PM is date and time sensitive and it dictates if the bid is on time or late. Late bids will be invalidated. No exceptions.
Before Sunday 11:59 PM EST - Winning bids will be posted. Winning GM must update his roster and team salary information within 72 hours.
OFF-SEASON (beginning this off-season)
Salary cap and roster (# of players) limits will be handled differently in the off-season and in season.
During the off-season bidding, each calendar week will feature either Restricted Free Agents or a player position as a guideline to that week's bidding. You may ONLY bid on a player in that category that week.
All Restricted Free Agents ("RFAs") will be bid on in the first week of the auctions. Please carefully review all rules for bidding on RFA's as they are significantly different from unrestricted FA's.
Each week thereafter, a field position (i.e. OF, CI, MI, C, SP or RP) will be open for bidding. You will only be allowed to bid on players who played that position each week....i.e. only OF may be bid upon during a week designated for OF's. Bids on a player not at that position will be invalidated.
Adherence to the salary cap and roster sizes will be relaxed during the off-season only to allow some flexibility. Each GM will be allowed to carry up to 5 extra players at any point in time during the off-season. Each franchise will also be able to exceed their salary cap by up to $10M.
All salary caps and rosters must be in full compliance by the 2012 season's Opening Day (first MLB game of season). Failure to be in compliance will mean no stat accumulation on ESPN.
IN SEASON
Once the regular season begins, the process of FA bidding changes slightly.
Players at any position can be posted and bid on in any week.
Be careful to not exceed your salary cap. If this occurs, the commissioner’s office will send you an email mandating that your team make arrangements to waive players in order to bring the current salary within your team’s salary cap. You will have only 72-hours to do this. If you fail to comply, the League Office will take action and possibly drop your most recently signed player to free agency in order to bring your team under the required salary cap maximum. Or if you sign someone and you don't place him on your 65 man roster within 72 hours he becomes a free agent again. At this point the League Office will notify the league of the player who has recently become a free agent and list them under the area title “Player Releases”. The League Office will review each 90-man roster often to make sure you are complying with your team’s assigned salary cap. Remember that player’s salaries do change.