Off Season Free Agency Guide

[Ian Noble]

Off Season Free Agency Guide

Reference: Off Season Free Agency Regulations


1. Find a Player and Message their Agent:

All available players are listed in the Off Season Free Agents List. Message player agents with your offer.

2. Make Your Offer:

The strength of your offer depends on a number of factors:

1. Money Offered (Player Agents will work to keep salaries realistic, but it doesn't hurt to show you're committed)
2. Playing time.
3. The chances of success with your team (playoff/championship calibre)
4. How much dedication you have shown to the player.
5. The perceived effort you put into making an offer.
6. A player's perceived real-life personality traits.

Some players are more likely to sign than others. Try to target the right sorts of players with your offers.

Do not expect Player Agents to consider factors that you do not raise.

3. Negotiate:

1. Player Agents may use their own discretion whether to communicate how much you may need to pay a player. They may tell you an exact amount, or they may expect you to make an offer.

2. All negotiations with Player Agents are posted within their hidden OSFA sections and are overseen by the Commissioner (Ian Noble).

3. For contentious or big-name Free Agent signings the Commissioner will present all bids on a player to the rest of the Player Agents for discussion and will also enlist the guidance of a random GM from the league so that their opinion can also be included before a signing happens. The inclusion of a randomly selected GM is to ensure that high profile decisions are not always decided entirely by Staff and to increase transparency in the OSFA process.

More scrutiny is likely to be given to signings made to Player Agents teams and in any instances when a player does not re-sign with their own team.

4. Further notes:

1. Bird Rights players are more likely to re-sign and tend to do so later in the OSFA process so that their team has a greater chance of signing other Free Agents, just like in real life (note: GMs must claim Bird Rights on their re-signing players before OSFA begins), although a prior signing can indeed still affect whether a player eventually re-signs.

2. Effort really counts and also shows dedication. If you really want to help your chances signing a player make sure you show you've put in the effort.