Free Agency Regulations

[Josh Barber]

Free Agency Regulations

Free Agents Rated Above 70

• Use the Free Agents List to find the player you want to sign.

• Send a Personal Message to that player's agent. Make sure to include: 
  
  • Player Name
  • Full Contract Offered
  • Your team's projected total salaries if you're successful in signing the player.
  • Reasons why the player should sign with your team.

  
  

• The Player Agent will continue to field offers and provide feedback if your offer needs to be improved.

• After finishing with feedback the Player Agent will make a decision, providing justification for their decision when a player has received multiple offers.
  

Free Agents Rated 70 or below

• To bid on a free agent rated 70 or below, create a thread with the player's name as the subject, and in the body post your bid in years and total dollars.

• An offer must stand as the highest bid for 24 hours before it is accepted. An offer is the high bid if it contains the highest TOTAL dollar amount over the life of the contract.

Regulations

• Contracts that GMs create in free agency are limited to being between 1 and 4 years in length.

• You may not sign a free agent if the signing takes your team over the salary cap. The only exception to this is if it is to the league minimum contract.

• The mimimum increase to an offer for a free agent is $100,000.

• The maximum amount that a contract can increase or decrease each year is by 11% of the previous year in the contract.

• If your team has the maximum of 15 players on it's roster you may not bid for free agents.

• No more than two Free Agents can be signed in 1 week (real-time) by each team.

• Contracts offered to free agents rated 70 or below must not contain Team or Player Options.

• The Josh Barber Rule: You may not release a player for the purpose of re-signing him outside of the Off Season.