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Post by Bobby on Jun 5, 2008 3:13:00 GMT -8
BIDDING AND YEARS
Players will be acquired through a bidding process. Bidding begins after the season at the direction of the Commissioner.
Minimum starting bid is $1. Players signed for $1 may be signed to a one, two or three year contract. Players signed for $2 or more may given up a five year contract.
There is no limit to the total number of years assigned to your teams' players. Existing contracts cannot be changed.
If you bid and clear a waived player off another’s roster and sign him to a $1/1/$1 contract, he must be rostered for a minimum of 72 hours.
During the offseason (from the Monday after the end of our playoffs to 11:59 PM the night before the first opening day), years for newly signed players are not set until just before the season begins (approximately one week before the first game; a specific date/time will be posted). During the season or inseason (from the day of the first game until 11:59 pm on the last day of our playoffs), years must be assigned as soon as the player is signed.
If you want a player for just one year, he costs the bid price. If you want to give a multi-year contract, add 20% to the bid price and round all fractions up to the next whole dollar. The result is the CAP hit EACH year and EVERY year of the contract. It is your choice how many years he gets. $1 players are limited to 3 years, others up to 5 years.
CAP hits with bid price and contract length:
Bid Price...........Length of Contract in Years
................1 yr......2yr.......3yr.......4yr.......5yr
$1..............1..........2..........2.........NA.......NA
$2..............2..........3..........3.........3..........3
$3..............3..........4..........4.........4..........4
$4..............4..........5..........5.........5..........5
$5..............5..........6..........6.........6..........6
$6..............6..........8..........8.........8..........8
$10...........10........12.........12.......12.........12
$20...........20........24.........24.......24.........24
$30...........30........36.........36.......36.........36
$40...........40........48.........48.......48.........48
Examples: If you get a player for $5, and want him for more than one year, you pay him $6 EACH year and EVERY year whether you sign him for 2 years or 5 years. A $10 player signed for one year costs $10. A $10 player signed for 3 years will cost you $12 (1st year), $12 (2nd year) and $12 (3rd year).
The owner still has RFA rights when the contract ends.
You must keep in reserve enough capital ($1 per player) to fill your roster to the minimum (38). If you have 35 signed (you must sign 3 more players), and you have $10 left, a bid of $9 on a free agent would be illegal, as you would need $1 each for the 2 other players you need and the $9 bid would leave only $1 for 2 players.
Any bid while out of compliance with the rules is illegal.
You cannot bid money you do not have available. The sum of your live bids (a live bid is the highest bid in a player thread) must not exceed the amount you have available. If you bid $10, and then someone else bids $12, your $10 bid is no longer live, and the money is then available for bidding.
The sum of your signed players plus the number of players you have live bids on may not exceed the maximum roster allowed plus one (inseason and offseason). If you have 35 players, you are limited to 6 live bids in the offseason (offseason max is 40). Obviously you will be waiving a player if you are high bidder on all 6.
You cannot make a trade that together with live bids put you over the CAP (if you have $270 spent and $20 in live bids, you cannot make a trade that adds $15 to your payroll as you would be over the CAP,
Starting on the day our playoffs begin, new bidding threads may not be started. Threads with players that are actively being bid on may be completed.
PROSPECTS
Prospects are defined as having less than 130 ABs or 50 IP (career) in the major leagues.
1. Prospects will continue to follow the same bidding rules as major leaguers.
2. If a prospect is waived between the beginning of March and the beginning of our playoffs and he has cleared waivers and he has less than 130 ABs or 50 IP (career) in the major leagues at the end of the baseball season and posted in Contract Cancellation by the owner, the remainder of the contract is then cancelled. The owner has no further responsibility.
3. If a prospect is waived in the offseason (end of playoffs through the end of February) and he has cleared waivers and he has less than 130 ABs or 50 IP (career) in the major leagues and posted in Contract Cancellation by the owner, the remainder of the contract is then immediately cancelled. The owner has no further responsibility.
4. A player waived and contract cancelled, as described above, shall not be bid on by that owner until the player has a minimum of 130 ABs or 50 IP (career).
5. An owner is limited to two such prospect contract cancellations per year (The year starts with the cancellations that qualify at the end of the baseball season and ends with those qualified and waived before the end of February).
6. If an owner has had a prospect contract cancelled, he may not acquire that player in a trade or waivers or otherwise for the duration of the original contract for less than the player's CAP hit at the time of cancellation, unless the player was no longer a prospect at the time the player's most recent bidding thread began.
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