Post by CC06 on Feb 18, 2022 16:10:24 GMT -5
Cap Figures: tsfbl.proboards.com/thread/2797/salary-cap-information
Free agency is upon us again. As a reminder, we're running it externally in TSFBL II. Still, not that much has changed. It's that time of year where you all get to send me 800 different bids for players (but seriously, please don't send that many). I know all of you know how this works, and yet I'm sure I will send at least half of you replies about something with your bids being wrong. So before you bid, please ask yourself a few questions about the contract you want to offer:
Question 1: Would this contract put me over the luxury tax?
This is a very important question because it completely changes the types of bids you're allowed to send. Let's start with those of you who believe you have to spend money to make money:
Category 1 - Yes
The only types of contracts you can send are on players you have bird rights on, minimum contracts, and the tax-payer mid-level exception (MLE). You cannot use the low-level exception (LLE). Skip to Question 3.
Category 2 - No
Proceed to Question 2, but be careful. If you use either the non-tax payer MLE or the LLE, you are officially hard capped at the luxury tax for the entire season.
Question 2: Do I have cap room?
Category 1 - Yes
You can offer contracts ranging from the minimum up to the amount of the cap room you currently have, unless you have bird rights on the player (see Question 3). If you have less cap room than the amounts of either the LLE or the non-tax payer MLE, you can use those as well. Once again, using either of these will hard cap you at the luxury tax amount for the entire season.
Category 2 - No
You can only offer minimum contracts and exceptions, unless you have bird rights on the player (see Question 3). Once again, using either of the exceptions will hard cap you at the luxury tax amount for the entire season.
Question 3: Do I have bird rights on this player?
Category 1 - Yes, 3 or more bird years
You can offer as high as a maximum contract for up to 5 years regardless of whether or not you are over the cap with increases ranging from -8% to 8%
Category 2 - Yes, 2 bird years
You have what is called early bird rights. If you want to offer the player a multi-year contract, you can offer up to 175% of his previous salary for anywhere between two and four years with increases ranging from -8% to 8%. If you only want to offer a one-year deal, please see Category 3.
Category 3 - Yes, 1 bird year
You can offer up to 120% of the player's previous salary for anywhere between one and four years with increases ranging from -5% to 5%.
Category 4 - No, he wasn't on my team last year
If you are using cap room to sign the player or the non-tax payer MLE, you can offer anywhere between one and four years with increases ranging from -5% to 5%. If you are offering the tax-payer MLE, you can only offer up to three years with those same increases of -5% to 5%. If you are offering the LLE (must be under the tax to use this), you can offer either one or two years with those same increases of -5% to 5%.
Other Miscellaneous Questions:
Question 4: How do I sign a player who is a restricted free agent?
Every free agency, certain players will be restricted free agents. This means that their original team has the right to match any contract offer, given that the cap rules allow them to do so. The restricted free agency rules can be found here: tsfbl.proboards.com/thread/2796/restricted-free-agency-rules
There is one very specific case that I want to cover in here for players that do not have full bird rights but are restricted free agents. This case is referred to by many as the Gilbert Arenas Rule. This rule is designed to allow teams that don't have full bird rights on a player to still have a chance to retain their restricted free agents, assuming they want to do so. In the case that a restricted free agent has less than full bird rights, the team with his rights can use their non-tax payer MLE to match the contract, if they still haven't used it and doing so wouldn't put them over the luxury tax.
If you are an outside team offering this player, you can proceed with offering the player as normal. However, you can only offer such a player a 4-year contract.
If the original team chooses to match, the player's contract will look a little wonky, but essentially it will start with the non-tax payer MLE amount, raise 5% the next season, and then backfill the remaining money in the remaining years of the contract.
Question 5: Why do I have a large amount of dollars in my Cut Players salary?
In this league, like in real life, all free agents will have a cap hold whether they are restricted free agents or not. The rules for the cap hold are simple:
1st Round Pick Rookie Contract: 300%
3+ Bird Years: 150%
2 Bird Years: 130%
1 Bird Year: 120%
You can renounce the cap hold to any (or all) of your free agents at any time in the off-season (there will be a new thread up every year where you can do so), but this also sets their bird years to zero. If the player has played zero games during the current season, his cap hold will automatically be renounced.
Question 6: How much is a max contract?
Since I'm sure somebody will ask, here are the MAX contracts:
0-6 Years Experience: 25% of salary cap
7-9 Years Experience: 30% of salary cap
10+ Years Experience: 35% of salary cap
Question 7: Can I offer multi-year minimum contracts?
You can offer two-year minimum contracts to rookies only. All other minimum contracts must be one year in length.
Question 8: Are sign-and-trades legal?
Yes, but on two conditions. First, the contract being signed and traded must be at least three years long. Second of all, you can acquire a player by sign-and-trade if and only if the move doesn't put you over the luxury tax. Once the sign-and-trade is completed, you'll be hard capped at the luxury tax number for the season.
If you sign a player to a one or two-year contract and want to trade the player, you must wait until Day 21 in the regular season.
Please note that sign-and-trades cannot become official until all rounds of free agency are completed.
Question 9: Where do you want me to send bids?
Google Form. Link
Question 10: How do I retract a bid on the Google Form?
The form is set to only take your most recent bid on a player, and if that bid is invalid, it will disregard it. So just submit an invalid bid on a player you want to retract a bid for.
There's probably an error or two in here, but you get the idea. I'll probably add stuff in at some point too. Feel free to ask me any questions.
Free agency is upon us again. As a reminder, we're running it externally in TSFBL II. Still, not that much has changed. It's that time of year where you all get to send me 800 different bids for players (but seriously, please don't send that many). I know all of you know how this works, and yet I'm sure I will send at least half of you replies about something with your bids being wrong. So before you bid, please ask yourself a few questions about the contract you want to offer:
Question 1: Would this contract put me over the luxury tax?
This is a very important question because it completely changes the types of bids you're allowed to send. Let's start with those of you who believe you have to spend money to make money:
Category 1 - Yes
The only types of contracts you can send are on players you have bird rights on, minimum contracts, and the tax-payer mid-level exception (MLE). You cannot use the low-level exception (LLE). Skip to Question 3.
Category 2 - No
Proceed to Question 2, but be careful. If you use either the non-tax payer MLE or the LLE, you are officially hard capped at the luxury tax for the entire season.
Question 2: Do I have cap room?
Category 1 - Yes
You can offer contracts ranging from the minimum up to the amount of the cap room you currently have, unless you have bird rights on the player (see Question 3). If you have less cap room than the amounts of either the LLE or the non-tax payer MLE, you can use those as well. Once again, using either of these will hard cap you at the luxury tax amount for the entire season.
Category 2 - No
You can only offer minimum contracts and exceptions, unless you have bird rights on the player (see Question 3). Once again, using either of the exceptions will hard cap you at the luxury tax amount for the entire season.
Question 3: Do I have bird rights on this player?
Category 1 - Yes, 3 or more bird years
You can offer as high as a maximum contract for up to 5 years regardless of whether or not you are over the cap with increases ranging from -8% to 8%
Category 2 - Yes, 2 bird years
You have what is called early bird rights. If you want to offer the player a multi-year contract, you can offer up to 175% of his previous salary for anywhere between two and four years with increases ranging from -8% to 8%. If you only want to offer a one-year deal, please see Category 3.
Category 3 - Yes, 1 bird year
You can offer up to 120% of the player's previous salary for anywhere between one and four years with increases ranging from -5% to 5%.
Category 4 - No, he wasn't on my team last year
If you are using cap room to sign the player or the non-tax payer MLE, you can offer anywhere between one and four years with increases ranging from -5% to 5%. If you are offering the tax-payer MLE, you can only offer up to three years with those same increases of -5% to 5%. If you are offering the LLE (must be under the tax to use this), you can offer either one or two years with those same increases of -5% to 5%.
Other Miscellaneous Questions:
Question 4: How do I sign a player who is a restricted free agent?
Every free agency, certain players will be restricted free agents. This means that their original team has the right to match any contract offer, given that the cap rules allow them to do so. The restricted free agency rules can be found here: tsfbl.proboards.com/thread/2796/restricted-free-agency-rules
There is one very specific case that I want to cover in here for players that do not have full bird rights but are restricted free agents. This case is referred to by many as the Gilbert Arenas Rule. This rule is designed to allow teams that don't have full bird rights on a player to still have a chance to retain their restricted free agents, assuming they want to do so. In the case that a restricted free agent has less than full bird rights, the team with his rights can use their non-tax payer MLE to match the contract, if they still haven't used it and doing so wouldn't put them over the luxury tax.
If you are an outside team offering this player, you can proceed with offering the player as normal. However, you can only offer such a player a 4-year contract.
If the original team chooses to match, the player's contract will look a little wonky, but essentially it will start with the non-tax payer MLE amount, raise 5% the next season, and then backfill the remaining money in the remaining years of the contract.
Question 5: Why do I have a large amount of dollars in my Cut Players salary?
In this league, like in real life, all free agents will have a cap hold whether they are restricted free agents or not. The rules for the cap hold are simple:
1st Round Pick Rookie Contract: 300%
3+ Bird Years: 150%
2 Bird Years: 130%
1 Bird Year: 120%
You can renounce the cap hold to any (or all) of your free agents at any time in the off-season (there will be a new thread up every year where you can do so), but this also sets their bird years to zero. If the player has played zero games during the current season, his cap hold will automatically be renounced.
Question 6: How much is a max contract?
Since I'm sure somebody will ask, here are the MAX contracts:
0-6 Years Experience: 25% of salary cap
7-9 Years Experience: 30% of salary cap
10+ Years Experience: 35% of salary cap
Question 7: Can I offer multi-year minimum contracts?
You can offer two-year minimum contracts to rookies only. All other minimum contracts must be one year in length.
Question 8: Are sign-and-trades legal?
Yes, but on two conditions. First, the contract being signed and traded must be at least three years long. Second of all, you can acquire a player by sign-and-trade if and only if the move doesn't put you over the luxury tax. Once the sign-and-trade is completed, you'll be hard capped at the luxury tax number for the season.
If you sign a player to a one or two-year contract and want to trade the player, you must wait until Day 21 in the regular season.
Please note that sign-and-trades cannot become official until all rounds of free agency are completed.
Question 9: Where do you want me to send bids?
Google Form. Link
Question 10: How do I retract a bid on the Google Form?
The form is set to only take your most recent bid on a player, and if that bid is invalid, it will disregard it. So just submit an invalid bid on a player you want to retract a bid for.
There's probably an error or two in here, but you get the idea. I'll probably add stuff in at some point too. Feel free to ask me any questions.