Post by CC06 on Apr 1, 2020 15:10:20 GMT -5
NOTE: For the purpose of this topic, what I'm referring to as an extension, you're probably used to being called "re-signing".
At the end of every season, players will determine whether or not they want their contract to be extended by their current team -- this is nothing new. What is new, however, is a rule being implemented for TSFBL that prohibits players from extending with the same team two contracts in a row. What this means is that if a player extends their contract at the end of the season (for any contract length), if the player is on the same team he originally extended with at the end of that new contract, the player will not be eligible to extend again and will automatically become an unrestricted free agent. His original team will still have full bird rights and can offer him a contract during the free agency period. This rule is simply in place to prevent GM's from sitting on a player without the entire league having any shot of acquiring him through free agency.
One thing to note is that simply letting a player hit restricted free agency is not a workaround for this rule. For the sake of this rule, a player being offered a qualifying offer by his original team also counts as a contract extension, and therefore that player could not be extended at the end of the contract that was just matched.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me. I know this is a new rule to all and it might not be universally loved, but after we saw so many players stayed with one team for their entire career in the last league, I felt it was necessary to at least give other teams the chance.
At the end of every season, players will determine whether or not they want their contract to be extended by their current team -- this is nothing new. What is new, however, is a rule being implemented for TSFBL that prohibits players from extending with the same team two contracts in a row. What this means is that if a player extends their contract at the end of the season (for any contract length), if the player is on the same team he originally extended with at the end of that new contract, the player will not be eligible to extend again and will automatically become an unrestricted free agent. His original team will still have full bird rights and can offer him a contract during the free agency period. This rule is simply in place to prevent GM's from sitting on a player without the entire league having any shot of acquiring him through free agency.
One thing to note is that simply letting a player hit restricted free agency is not a workaround for this rule. For the sake of this rule, a player being offered a qualifying offer by his original team also counts as a contract extension, and therefore that player could not be extended at the end of the contract that was just matched.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me. I know this is a new rule to all and it might not be universally loved, but after we saw so many players stayed with one team for their entire career in the last league, I felt it was necessary to at least give other teams the chance.