Post by Greenville Drive on Feb 6, 2012 9:39:29 GMT -5
Here are some of the basic rules to free agency:
1--$300,000 is the minimum amount you can bid on a player.
2--$20,000,000 is the maximum amount you can bid on a player.
3--Bid increments have to increase by $100,000 but no more than $1,000,000
4--You can have no more than 5 high bids at one time. This is the most important rule. Someone will do this, I will warn everybody again and the next person to do it will be penalized.
5--During matching free agency, you are only allowed to match 2 of the 3 players you have listed.
6--During matching free agency, you are not allowed to bid on your own player, unless you have used both of your matches.
7--Once a player has not had another bid after 24 hours, he has then been "won" by the high bidder. During matching free agency, the match owner has the right to keep this player for that same amount.
8--The match owner has 48 hours to decide whether to match or not.
9--Once a player has been won, you have 48 hours to give a contract. If no contract is stated, a 1 year contract will be given.
10--All contracts must be between 1-5 years. Each year you are allowed up to 3 "option" contracts.
11--Do not go over the salary cap. This includes any high bids you currently have.
Below is the section on free agency from the official rules:
SALARIES:
Initial players’ salaries were assigned based on draft position in the 2009 MLB dispersal draft. These values were given before the draft and the salary cap was set at $100 million. This is the cap for the foreseeable future.
Maximum player salary amount is $20 million and the minimum player salary is $300,000. Any player on the 40-man roster will be given a salary of $300,000 or greater, regardless of prospect status.
Each team was given three 5-year contract, three 4-year contracts, seven 3-year contracts, seven 2-year contracts and all others were assigned 1-year contracts. Contract lengths were decided by each owner before the start of the 2009 MLB season.
Any team caught above 40 players, or over the salary cap, will be given a warning and 48 hours to correct the problem. After a second warning, the team will lose an FYPD pick.
FREE AGENCY:
There are two periods of free agency each year: in-season and off-season. To be eligible to be bid on in free agency, a player must either have passed the 50IP/130AB prospect threshold or be 25 years or older on April 1st of that season. If an undrafted player is added to an active MLB 25-man roster, he becomes immediately available in free agency regardless of his age or prospect status.
In-Season free agency consists of all players who are not on any Perfect Game roster but are on an MLB team’s active 25-man roster. Player must be introduced in the Free Agency forum on the message board site and a league minimum bid of $300,000 must be given to the player. Everyone in the league is then free to bid on this player, assuming they have the cap space. Once bidding has ceased for a 24-hour period, the player is awarded to that team with the highest bid. The winning team then has 48 hours to determine contract length between 1 and 5 years. If no contract length is stated, player will be given a default 1-year contract.
Off-Season free agency follows the same bidding process, but bidding will take place over weeks with players divided into groups by position. Each team owner can make bids on no more than 5 players at any one team. If they are caught to have more than 5 bids, they will be suspended from bidding on that group for one week.
When entering off-season free agency, each team can protect 3 players from being lost to free agency by declaring them as “match” players. The players will then be bid on by the other owners. The winning bid will then be able to be matched and the player will stay with its previous team. Only 2 of the 3 players may be matched, but the 3rd player can then be bid on by the previous owner if he has used his 2 matches.
Franchising a player can also be done when a players contract is up. His salary will be 120% of his final year salary or $8 million whichever is greater and will last for 3 years. Only one franchise player is available per team and they will not be able to be waived, traded or released.
Each team is allowed up to 3 option contracts each off-season. Option contracts are option years that the team has on a player and can be broken down into any combination of 5 years or less at your discretion, meaning 1yr + 1yr, 1yr + 2yrs, 1yr + 3yrs, 1yr + 4yrs, 2yrs + 1yr, 2yrs + 2yrs, 2yr + 3yrs, 3yrs + 1yr, 3yrs + 2yr or 4yrs + 1yr. There is a maximum of 7 option contracts at one time per team.
1--$300,000 is the minimum amount you can bid on a player.
2--$20,000,000 is the maximum amount you can bid on a player.
3--Bid increments have to increase by $100,000 but no more than $1,000,000
4--You can have no more than 5 high bids at one time. This is the most important rule. Someone will do this, I will warn everybody again and the next person to do it will be penalized.
5--During matching free agency, you are only allowed to match 2 of the 3 players you have listed.
6--During matching free agency, you are not allowed to bid on your own player, unless you have used both of your matches.
7--Once a player has not had another bid after 24 hours, he has then been "won" by the high bidder. During matching free agency, the match owner has the right to keep this player for that same amount.
8--The match owner has 48 hours to decide whether to match or not.
9--Once a player has been won, you have 48 hours to give a contract. If no contract is stated, a 1 year contract will be given.
10--All contracts must be between 1-5 years. Each year you are allowed up to 3 "option" contracts.
11--Do not go over the salary cap. This includes any high bids you currently have.
Below is the section on free agency from the official rules:
SALARIES:
Initial players’ salaries were assigned based on draft position in the 2009 MLB dispersal draft. These values were given before the draft and the salary cap was set at $100 million. This is the cap for the foreseeable future.
Maximum player salary amount is $20 million and the minimum player salary is $300,000. Any player on the 40-man roster will be given a salary of $300,000 or greater, regardless of prospect status.
Each team was given three 5-year contract, three 4-year contracts, seven 3-year contracts, seven 2-year contracts and all others were assigned 1-year contracts. Contract lengths were decided by each owner before the start of the 2009 MLB season.
Any team caught above 40 players, or over the salary cap, will be given a warning and 48 hours to correct the problem. After a second warning, the team will lose an FYPD pick.
FREE AGENCY:
There are two periods of free agency each year: in-season and off-season. To be eligible to be bid on in free agency, a player must either have passed the 50IP/130AB prospect threshold or be 25 years or older on April 1st of that season. If an undrafted player is added to an active MLB 25-man roster, he becomes immediately available in free agency regardless of his age or prospect status.
In-Season free agency consists of all players who are not on any Perfect Game roster but are on an MLB team’s active 25-man roster. Player must be introduced in the Free Agency forum on the message board site and a league minimum bid of $300,000 must be given to the player. Everyone in the league is then free to bid on this player, assuming they have the cap space. Once bidding has ceased for a 24-hour period, the player is awarded to that team with the highest bid. The winning team then has 48 hours to determine contract length between 1 and 5 years. If no contract length is stated, player will be given a default 1-year contract.
Off-Season free agency follows the same bidding process, but bidding will take place over weeks with players divided into groups by position. Each team owner can make bids on no more than 5 players at any one team. If they are caught to have more than 5 bids, they will be suspended from bidding on that group for one week.
When entering off-season free agency, each team can protect 3 players from being lost to free agency by declaring them as “match” players. The players will then be bid on by the other owners. The winning bid will then be able to be matched and the player will stay with its previous team. Only 2 of the 3 players may be matched, but the 3rd player can then be bid on by the previous owner if he has used his 2 matches.
Franchising a player can also be done when a players contract is up. His salary will be 120% of his final year salary or $8 million whichever is greater and will last for 3 years. Only one franchise player is available per team and they will not be able to be waived, traded or released.
Each team is allowed up to 3 option contracts each off-season. Option contracts are option years that the team has on a player and can be broken down into any combination of 5 years or less at your discretion, meaning 1yr + 1yr, 1yr + 2yrs, 1yr + 3yrs, 1yr + 4yrs, 2yrs + 1yr, 2yrs + 2yrs, 2yr + 3yrs, 3yrs + 1yr, 3yrs + 2yr or 4yrs + 1yr. There is a maximum of 7 option contracts at one time per team.
