2014 GML Free Agency Rules

[Mach]

1. Bidding on free agents will begin late February and Early March.

2. We use a bidding format in the free agency forum.

4. When a bid lasts 48 hours without being raised, the bidding team is awarded the player.

5. Minimum bid is 495K for non UDFA rookies, 420K for UDFA rookies, there is no maximum bid.

6. You cannot go over the salary cap at anytime with your bids, not including draft pick salaries. If you need more room to make a bid, you must cut a player before placing that bid.

7. You cannot have more than 7 bids simultaneously, if you do, you will forfeit your most recent bid to get you at 7 bids. This includes both positional free agents and cut players.

8. You cannot trade players you sign in free agency. You may trade your franchised/transitioned players or RFA tenders. You can cut players signed to contracts but must absorb all of it as dead money. You may not cut them as June 1sts.

9. You can retract minimum ($420K/$495K) bids ONLY.

10. A bid must increase by at least $250K for players with a bid under $1,000,000 and $500,000 once they go over $1,000,000.

11. You may bid on a player once per day. If a team beats your offer for a player, once the next 12AM ET happens, you may bid on the player again.

12. Please do not welcome players to your team in the player's position thread. It only makes a mess and there will be a thread specifically for you to welcome your players.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

Keep in mind that you guys will only be able to have seven active bids combined. So keep track of who you're bidding on because if you have more than seven active bids, we will retract your most recent ones to get you down to seven.

Also... make sure you have enough space for your free agents when bidding. Also keep in mind how much your draft pick salaries are because you'll need room to sign them if you do. You do not have to have the required space before the picks are made, but you must have the space when you go to sign them.

Please remember for unrestricted free agency you may use the Exclusive Rights Franchise Tag OR the Non-Exclusive Rights Franchise Tag OR the Transition Tag.

Franchise/Transition Tags
All tags and tenders must be submitted before Free Agency. The tags and tenders must be in by March 9th at 11:59 PM ET

Exclusive Rights Franchise Tag
An exclusive-rights franchise tag will cost more than a traditional non-exclusive franchise tag however it will allow teams to make sure they get their target without any disturbances. An exclusive-rights franchise tagged player can be added to the team's roster as soon as the deadline to tag/tender players passes. You may NOT trade these players.

Non Exclusive Rights Franchise Tag
A non-exclusive franchise tag will cost a little less than the tag mentioned above however other teams will have an opportunity during free agency to make a bid on the tagged player. If a bid is made on a non-exclusive rights tagged player, you have the option to match the bid or accept compensation from the bidding team. If you accept compensation, you will receive two first round picks from the bidding team.

Transition Tag
A transition tag is even less than the two tags mentioned above and teams will also have an opportunity during free agency to make a bid on the tagged player. However if a bid is made on a transition tagged player, you will only have the option to match the bid. You will receive no compensation from the bidding team if you do not match the bid.

Amount of Tags Per Team
Teams have a choice of using either the Exclusive Rights Franchise Tag OR the Non-Exclusive Rights Franchise Tag OR the Transition Tag. Which means if you tag a player with any of these tags, you cannot tag any other players at all with the other two.

RFAs/ERFAs
You must place a tender on all the RFA's and ERFA's you have that you plan to keep. Remember you get right to match the salary of what teams offer your players. If you do not, you get compensation based on the tender. ERFA's (Exclusive Rights) will be given a base salary and if they are tendered, no team will have an opportunity to offer that player a contract. Therefore these players can be added to your roster right away if tendered. However, RFA's cannot be added to your roster right away as teams may offer them contracts during free agency. Keep in mind, for players drafted in the 1st or 2nd round originally, you must tender them with that level designation, otherwise you will get a pick one round lower.


Bidding on Tagged UFAs and tendered RFAs
Teams will have until the end of free agency to place bids on players who were given the non-exclusive franchise tag, the transition tag, and RFAs who were tendered at any level. That player's respective team and GM will decide whether to match the offer or accept compensation. Your bid must be higher than what the respective tag/tender they received.

Exclusive Rights/Restricted Free Agents
ERFA tender: $495,000
RFA right of first refusal: $1,389,150
RFA original round tender: $1,389,150
RFA 2nd round tender: $2,124,242
RFA 1st round tender: $3,022,559

Unrestricted Free Agents
QB
Exclusive-Rights Franchise Tag: $20,393,600
Non-Exclusive Rights Franchise Tag: $16,060,000
Transition Tag: $18,914,467

RB
Exclusive-Rights Franchise Tag: $10,270,000
Non-Exclusive Rights Franchise Tag: $9,060,000
Transition Tag: $8,461,692

WR
Exclusive-Rights Franchise Tag: $14,420,517
Non-Exclusive Rights Franchise Tag: $11,520,000
Transition Tag: $12,668,458

TE
Exclusive-Rights Franchise Tag: $8,258,200
Non-Exclusive Rights Franchise Tag: $6,698,000
Transition Tag: $7,490,892

OL
Exclusive-Rights Franchise Tag: $11,507,733
Non-Exclusive Rights Franchise Tag: $11,109,000
Transition Tag: $10,906,806

DE
Exclusive-Rights Franchise Tag: $16,861,417
Non-Exclusive Rights Franchise Tag: $12,455,000
Transition Tag: $13,182,375

DT
Exclusive-Rights Franchise Tag: $14,927,951
Non-Exclusive Rights Franchise Tag: $9,168,000
Transition Tag: $10,717,299

LB
Exclusive-Rights Franchise Tag: $11,642,943
Non-Exclusive Rights Franchise Tag: $10,878,000
Transition Tag: $10,229,805

CB
Exclusive-Rights Franchise Tag: $13,277,881
Non-Exclusive Rights Franchise Tag: $11,238,000
Transition Tag: $11,688,940

S
Exclusive-Rights Franchise Tag: $10,171,440
Non-Exclusive Rights Franchise Tag: $8,008,000
Transition Tag: $8,493,920

K/P
Exclusive-Rights Franchise Tag: $3,942,000
Non-Exclusive Rights Franchise Tag: $3,377,000
Transition Tag: $3,705,862

[Witlon]

Make sure everyone reads rules 6, 7, 8 and 10...

[Kingdom]

So. Yeah about those TPS reports..

[305]

Holy shit, theres rules to this game? Who woulda thunk it

[Witlon]

Might as well not be, nobody reads them anyway.

[Kingdom]

I did.

[Witlon]

*sigh*

Me too

[Mach]

I made them, how do you think I feel?

[Kingdom]

*:iamsosorry:

[Kingdom]

**demoting mach later in the morning

[Mach]

I told you to list the ones you wanted, geez

[Kingdom]

Do some work on your own for once, you lazy ass bum.

[Mach]

I brought the ones over I liked, I said I wasn't gonna bring all of them but would bring any over that people wanted. So far that's been ~50.

[finsbuck719]

Quick question. Since Owen Daniels was traded twice (once to the Bucs, then once to the Titans), does he still carry that dead money? Meaning if I cut/trade him, do I have to still cover the ~2mil in dead cap, or not, since the Bucs already covered that since they were the 2nd team to trade him away?

[Witlon]

If you cut him, you have to pay dead money.

If you trade him, you pay nothing in dead money.