Post by JetsGM (Jacob) on Jan 19, 2017 21:11:56 GMT -5
We’re at the halfway point of the 2016/2017 season and it has been an exciting one! I have an update concerning the trade deadline, as well as a few new and fairly significant league rules to be announced. I will be updating the official league rules thread in the next week or so to reflect these changes. Please read the following and feel free to reply below if you have any questions or concerns.
Trade Deadline
The trade deadline is fast approaching and it marks your final chance to stock up (or sell off) before the playoffs. The date is set for February 19 @ 11:59 PM EST. All trades must be posted before this time to be deemed acceptable. This will also be teams’ last chance to sign any free agents before UFA re-opens in August.
To allow teams openness in dealing, any deals made on February 18 will be finalized at midnight on February 19 instead of waiting for the 24H clock to countdown. On February 19, all trades made will be finalized immediately to allow teams more flexibility in dealing, as long as the deal does not obviously hurt the potential integrity of the league.
Effective Season 2017
Buyout and Sign clause
This rule is effective immediately. Any team buying out a player is ineligible to sign that player in free agency for the life of the buyout penalty.
Call up limit
Effective as of the start of our 2017 playoffs, which will then carry forward into next year’s regular season, teams will be limited to 7 call ups a week. There is no daily limit, teams can use as many as they wish, however once 7 call ups are used, all further attempts will be denied.
Effective Offseason 2017
Contract Sliding for Players with less than 10 GP
We will be eliminating the free buyout and contract sliding for free agency players with less than 10 GP.
1) During the current buyout period or during the summer buyout period, teams will have one last opportunity to drop, without penalty, any player they signed with less than 10 GP that they do not wish to keep:
2) Once this period is closed, all existing contracts will no longer slide indefinitely until a player reaches 10 GP. Instead it will expire like any other contract.
3) If a GM wishes to rid themselves of the contract, they must follow the usual buyout procedure
4) The Excel Sheet will be updated to separate drafted and signed prospects. All drafted prospects under 10GP will be placed in the “In the System” section, while all free agency signed prospects with under 10GP will be placed in the “Minors” section. Once a drafted player plays 10 GP, they will need to be moved into the “Minors” section
a. Drafted players’ contracts will slide for 3 years or until they play 10 GP to account for development time. This will also apply to inherited prospects from the start of the league (players drafted from 2016 will have 2 slide years left, 2015, 1 slide year left)
b. Within the 3 years, if a team wishes to drop a drafted prospect, they may during one of the buyout periods by posting in the waivers thread and stating that the move is an unconditional buyout. Once confirmed, regular waiver procedure will proceed and if no one claims the prospect, then they will become a UFA.
c. After 3 years have passed, the player is moved into the minors and the regular buyout procedure applies
Free Agency Updates
Active Bid Update
Teams will now be required to have the available cap space to account for all active bids, you will no longer be able to account for waiving/demoting/buying out a player to open cap space for a bid. If you do not have the available cap space, it must be made available BEFORE the bid is placed. It does not matter if the player can be sent down immediately, a team must wait until that player is signed and the thread is created demoting the player before the cap space is available again.
Example: Toronto has $10 million in available cap space and $8 million in active bids. The maximum bid he can place is $2 million. If he wishes to place a bid of more than $2 million, then he must FIRST make a move to open up the roster space (demote, waive, buyout a player), THEN the bid can be placed
NOTE: To easily enforce this, teams will be required to maintain an active bids/cap remaining table on their XLS as can be seen here (Toronto’s tab in the Google XLS). If you need help setting this up, please let me know and I can set it up for you.
Free Agency Priority List
The second free agency rule to be implemented this offseason is the free agency priority list. This list will only come into effect for any bids that are at the max of not counting towards the cap (i.e., bids of $1.9 million). Once a bid of this amount is posted, other teams will be allowed to match the bid (as long as they have the cap space available). If no team raises the bid and the 24-hour window passes, the winning team will be the highest team on the free agency priority list. The winning team will then be moved to the bottom of the free agency priority list.
The list will be based on the reverse standings of this season (excluding playoff results), and will be reset each year at the completion of the regular season.
Prize Pool
Also realized I never announced the prize pool breakdown. 10 teams registered to compete, so total prize will be $200 USD broken down as follows:
League winner (60%) - $120
Runner-up (playoffs) (20%) - $40
Regular season champion (20%) - $40
Good luck to all the rest of the way and happy trading!
Trade Deadline
The trade deadline is fast approaching and it marks your final chance to stock up (or sell off) before the playoffs. The date is set for February 19 @ 11:59 PM EST. All trades must be posted before this time to be deemed acceptable. This will also be teams’ last chance to sign any free agents before UFA re-opens in August.
To allow teams openness in dealing, any deals made on February 18 will be finalized at midnight on February 19 instead of waiting for the 24H clock to countdown. On February 19, all trades made will be finalized immediately to allow teams more flexibility in dealing, as long as the deal does not obviously hurt the potential integrity of the league.
Effective Season 2017
Buyout and Sign clause
This rule is effective immediately. Any team buying out a player is ineligible to sign that player in free agency for the life of the buyout penalty.
Call up limit
Effective as of the start of our 2017 playoffs, which will then carry forward into next year’s regular season, teams will be limited to 7 call ups a week. There is no daily limit, teams can use as many as they wish, however once 7 call ups are used, all further attempts will be denied.
Effective Offseason 2017
Contract Sliding for Players with less than 10 GP
We will be eliminating the free buyout and contract sliding for free agency players with less than 10 GP.
1) During the current buyout period or during the summer buyout period, teams will have one last opportunity to drop, without penalty, any player they signed with less than 10 GP that they do not wish to keep:
2) Once this period is closed, all existing contracts will no longer slide indefinitely until a player reaches 10 GP. Instead it will expire like any other contract.
3) If a GM wishes to rid themselves of the contract, they must follow the usual buyout procedure
4) The Excel Sheet will be updated to separate drafted and signed prospects. All drafted prospects under 10GP will be placed in the “In the System” section, while all free agency signed prospects with under 10GP will be placed in the “Minors” section. Once a drafted player plays 10 GP, they will need to be moved into the “Minors” section
a. Drafted players’ contracts will slide for 3 years or until they play 10 GP to account for development time. This will also apply to inherited prospects from the start of the league (players drafted from 2016 will have 2 slide years left, 2015, 1 slide year left)
b. Within the 3 years, if a team wishes to drop a drafted prospect, they may during one of the buyout periods by posting in the waivers thread and stating that the move is an unconditional buyout. Once confirmed, regular waiver procedure will proceed and if no one claims the prospect, then they will become a UFA.
c. After 3 years have passed, the player is moved into the minors and the regular buyout procedure applies
Free Agency Updates
Active Bid Update
Teams will now be required to have the available cap space to account for all active bids, you will no longer be able to account for waiving/demoting/buying out a player to open cap space for a bid. If you do not have the available cap space, it must be made available BEFORE the bid is placed. It does not matter if the player can be sent down immediately, a team must wait until that player is signed and the thread is created demoting the player before the cap space is available again.
Example: Toronto has $10 million in available cap space and $8 million in active bids. The maximum bid he can place is $2 million. If he wishes to place a bid of more than $2 million, then he must FIRST make a move to open up the roster space (demote, waive, buyout a player), THEN the bid can be placed
NOTE: To easily enforce this, teams will be required to maintain an active bids/cap remaining table on their XLS as can be seen here (Toronto’s tab in the Google XLS). If you need help setting this up, please let me know and I can set it up for you.
Free Agency Priority List
The second free agency rule to be implemented this offseason is the free agency priority list. This list will only come into effect for any bids that are at the max of not counting towards the cap (i.e., bids of $1.9 million). Once a bid of this amount is posted, other teams will be allowed to match the bid (as long as they have the cap space available). If no team raises the bid and the 24-hour window passes, the winning team will be the highest team on the free agency priority list. The winning team will then be moved to the bottom of the free agency priority list.
The list will be based on the reverse standings of this season (excluding playoff results), and will be reset each year at the completion of the regular season.
Prize Pool
Also realized I never announced the prize pool breakdown. 10 teams registered to compete, so total prize will be $200 USD broken down as follows:
League winner (60%) - $120
Runner-up (playoffs) (20%) - $40
Regular season champion (20%) - $40
Good luck to all the rest of the way and happy trading!
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