Free Agency (Rules)
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General Info / Description of Free Agency Process
List of Free Agents: http://rosters.ssbabasketball.com/fa/fa-pos.htm
There are 5 days of free agency. Not all free agents will immediately make their decision. Some will take all 5 days. If you don't PM me to change your offer, your offer stands from one day to the next.
If you want your bids cancelled, you must specify. If on day 2 you send me a list of bids, if you don’t specifically tell me to cancel your outstanding bids, those bids will carry over. You cannot make 2 offers to one player. If you submit an offer to a player you’ve already made an offer to, the newest offer will go to him, the previous offer will be cancelled/replaced.
I cannot do tiered offerings. Meaning I can't do something like "offer this guy x amount of dollars, and if he turns it down offer this guy the same thing". I offer all the contracts at once, you have to be prepared to accept the consequences if they accept. If you don't want a guy to accept until you know another guy has turned you down, wait and offer your second guy the contract after your first priority has signed somewhere.
Also, you can only have 15 players on a roster at any time. If you have 15, a player can't accept your free agent offer. If you have 14, and a free agent accepts your offer, then no other free agent can accept your offer. Make room on your roster accordingly.
Contract Terms
If Over the Cap
If you are re-signing your own player (with 3+ bird years): Max Length: 7 years Max Raises: 12.5% of first years salary Max Starting Salary: League Maximum or 120% of his prior years salary, whichever is greater. You may also offer them the MLE or LLE. Check table below based on experience
If you are re-signing your own player (less than 3 bird years): Max Length: 6 years Max Raises: 10% of first years salary Max Starting Salary: 120% of his previous years salary (or you can use an exception, MLE, LLE or Minimum)
If you are signing a new player: MLE: 1 year contract @ 4.5 million LLE: 1 year contract @ 1.2 million (each of these can be used once per season. You can't offer them less than the exception, or a portion of the exceptions, just the full exceptions. Players signed with the MLE or LLE can't be traded until their exception contract expires) Minimum salary exception: Minimum Salary (based on experience, see table below) for 1 year.
If Under the Cap
- NOTE* If you have less than the value of either the MLE or LLE, you can use that exception, pursuant to the terms listed below.
Re-signing your own free agents (3+ bird years): Max Length: 7 years Max Raises: 12.5% of first years salary Max Starting Salary: Maximum available cap room (up to the maximum based on experience, see table below) or 120% of his prior years salary, whichever is greater.
Re-signing your own free agents (less than 3 bird years):
Max Length: 6 years
Max Raises: 10% of first years salary
Max Starting Salary: 120% of previous years salary, or amount of cap space you have (not higher than the maximum allowed based on experience, as listed in table below), whichever’s higher.
Signing a new player: Max Length: 6 years Max Raises: 10% of first years salary Max Starting Salary: Amount of cap space you have, up to the maximum allowed based on experience (see table below).
Exceptions
There are 3 exceptions that can be used for teams over the salary cap (or teams under the salary cap by less than these exceptions, individually, are worth).
MLE
MLE (Mid-Level Exception)
Worth: 4.5 million (no more, no less. Can only be exact amount)
Duration: 1 year max
Can be used once every year.
Cannot be traded while signed to MLE.
The following year can be offered a contract starting at 120% of the MLE for up to 6 years.
LLE
Worth: 1.2 million (No more, no less. Can only be exact amount)
Duration: 1 year max
Can be used once ever year.
Cannot be traded while signed to LLE.
The following year can be offered a contract starting at 120% of the LLE for up to 6 years.
Minimum
1 year contract.
Salary determined by experience of the player (chart here)
Can be included in trades
The following year can be offered a contract starting at 120% of previous years salary for up to 6 years.
Can I Split Exceptions
Under no circumstances can the MLE, LLE or veterans minimum exceptions be split to be used on multiple players.
How Free Agents Decide
Free Agents make their decisions on who they want to sign with based on the following 3 criteria: “Greed” (how much money the contract is for), “Loyalty” (returning to the team he was just on or going to his hometown) and “Play For Winner” (Desire to play on a winning team). Each player weighs these attributes differently, some care more about winning than others, etc. How much they care about these attributes are listed on their players page, rated on a 1-100 scale (1 being someone who cares about the attribute the least, 100 the most).
"Greed"
A person with a high greed rating will care about how much money the contract is for, and may tend to sign to the highest bidder.
"Loyalty"
Two things draw free agents with a high loyalty rating. First, a player with a high loyalty rating is more likely to return to his own team. Two, a person with a high loyalty rating may favor his hometown team.
"Play For Winner
Each team is given a “Win Rating” (you can view this by going to your team roster page, then clicking Team History). A player with a high “Play for Winner” attribute is going to care about going to a team with a high Win Rating.
Bird Years
Bird Years are listed are listed on a players profile under “Contract”. Bird years are the number of years a player goes without changing teams through free agency. When a player is traded or re-signed he retains his bird years. It affects the re-signing of players, specifically for teams over the salary cap.
Less Than 3 Bird Years
A player with less than 3 bird years can be signed by his previous team at 120% of his prior salary for up to 6 years (the team may also use Exceptions, with the same rules applying). This is beneficial because typically if you are over the salary cap you cannot give him more than the Exceptions. Now, if your player had previously made 6 million, you can give him a contract starting at 7.2 million and for up to 6 years (for other teams over the cap, the highest they can offer him is the MLE for 1 year @ 4.5 million).
More Thank 3 Bird Years
For players with more than 3 bird years, you can offer them up to the maximum salary allowed based on experience, regardless of how much cap room you have.
Restricted Free Agency?
There is no restricted free agency in this simulation. If a guy enters the free agent market (meaning he isn’t given a contract extension at the end of the year), he can sign with anyone, without giving you the chance to match an offer.
Free Agency Post Day 5
After the 5 days of free agency and training camp have been simmed, you can sign any player still available to a 1 year, minimum salary contract. These are not biddings, the players automatically accept. The signing of players at this point comes on a first come, first serve basis. This is how you can fill out your remaining roster spots if players haven't accepted your offers in free agency.
Minimum/Maximum Salary
|
Exp |
Min |
Max |
|
0 |
332,817 |
10,950,000 |
|
1 |
465,850 |
10,950,000 |
|
2 |
540,850 |
10,950,000 |
|
3 |
565,850 |
10,950,000 |
|
4 |
590,850 |
10,950,000 |
|
5 |
653,350 |
10,950,000 |
|
6 |
715,850 |
10,950,000 |
|
7 |
778,350 |
13,140,000 |
|
8 |
840,850 |
13,140,000 |
|
9 |
965,850 |
13,140,000 |
|
10+ |
1,000,000 |
15,330,000 |
End of Year Extensions on Upcoming Free Agents
The decisions on extending your current free agents will be due, by going to this page (http://forums.ssbabasketball.com/ssba_pages/resignings.php ) on the day indicated on the calendar. Here's how it works.
Players interested in extensions will submit you an offer. You either accept or decline the offer, there is no negotiation. If you accept the offer, they are signed to that contract, if you decline the offer, they become unrestricted free agents (bird rules still apply for what contract you can offer).
Only players who have 3+ bird years will be able to be extended. Players with less than 3 bird years can be re-signed after the draft in the free agency period.
You can view and accept your offers by going to this page: http://forums.ssbabasketball.com/ssba_pages/resignings.php
If you don't respond by 5pm, on the day indicated on the calendar, all of your free agents will enter free agency.
Players whose extensions are accepted can be traded at any time, and aren’t subject to the 60 day rule.
Waivers
After having cut a player, the cutting team is unable to sign him for 24 hours. This is to give the rest of the league first chance to sign him. If he hasn’t been signed for 24 hours since he was released, the team that released him may sign him once again.
If a player is cut as a result of a trade, no team involved in the trade (either team who traded the cut player, team who received the player, or any other parties involved in the trade who never controlled the player) can sign that player for a period of 24 hours after the player was cut. This doesn't matter when the player is cut with regards to the trade. If it's 3 sims down the line, the same rule applies.
