Boston Celtics
Post by Ian Noble on May 4, 2012 18:50:11 GMT
Regular Season Free Agency Regulations
Use the Free Agents List to find the player you want to sign.
Use the Free Agents List to find the player you want to sign.
Free Agents Rated Above 70
- 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 post a new thread in the Free Agency section, or reply to an existing player's thread, stating that a bid has been received and 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 salary.
- 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 7.5% of the initial offer or the league minimum salary.
- 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 them outside of the Off Season.
- The James Kay Rule: You must wait one month before a signed free agent can be traded or released.
- A player must be created before they can be signed. If a player is not on the Free Agent list and you wish to sign them, first post a player creation thread in the Stock Watch Discussion. Once the player has been created and added to the Free Agents list they can be bid upon.
- Regular Season Free Agency can continue during Off Season Free Agency.
