Post by CanucksGM(Commissioner) on Jan 20, 2012 17:35:18 GMT -5
Contracts
The best NHL contract info on the web:
capgeek.com
Types of Contracts in Stanley Cup Fantasy League
REAL LIFE CONTRACT:
* a real life contract from before the start of the 2012 season still inforce (if the real life contract includes options, please see the bottom of this thread)
* a real life contract for a prospect who was originally in your organization before the start of the 2012 season or from a player you draft in Stanley Cup Fantasy League Minor League Drafts
* a real life contract obtained via franchised tag
* a real life contract resulting from a player's 3 Year Entry Level Contract
Stanley Cup Fantasy League CONTRACT:
* player was signed through Stanley Cup Fantasy League Free Agency
All contracts are determined by CAP HIT, not actual yearly salary, and are rounded to the nearest tenth of a million dollars for easy calculations (i.e. a real life .542M contract becomes .5M, .550M becomes .6M).
Franchise Tags
* To protect against the loss of all free agents in a particular calendar year, a GM is given 1 Franchise Tag and 1 Restricted Tag every offseason. You will have the ability at the end of the year to name your franchised players.
* When you use the Franchise Tag on a player, you assume their real-life contract IN FULL. Sometimes this will be a player who is in FA in real life - you will be forced to take on whatever contract he signs. At other times, the player's contract is expiring in Stanley Cup Fantasy League but not in real life. In those cases, you already know what the salary would be, but you are still able to Tag that player. In this case, "real-life" acts as an arbitrator of sorts in determining a fair market value for these Tagged players.
* If a new "real-life" contract stemming from a Franchise Tag puts a franchise over the salary cap maximum, the GM will receive a notice from the Commissioner’s Office after which time he/she will have less than a week to get back under the cap.
* When you use the Restricted Tag on a player, they are released to the open bidding process like all untagged UFAs. When the winning bid is determined, you are given the option to either match the winning bid in full and keep the player, or if the price tag is too high, you can let the winning GM have the player.
Free Agency Bidding
* If a player is not under contract with any team but he has been signed to a NHL contract in real life before, he is a Stanley Cup Fantasy League Free Agent. This means that players who have not been drafted/signed, or international players who have not been signed, are NOT eligible in Free Agency. Also, Minor League Players who are drafted in each June are NOT eligible to be bid on in FA until after our draft of those players in the offseason.
* If you wish to add a Free Agent to your 35-Man Roster from free agency, we employ OPEN BIDDING FOR ALL FREE AGENTS: post a thread titled with the player's name and position in the Free Agent Bidding area of the message board stating what your contract offer is. Once this is done, the player is now open for bidding to all 30 GM's. Your contract offer should consider the following guidelines.
Bidding Guidelines:
* The offer with the highest average annual salary always wins, even if it is for a shorter term. For example, if I offer 1 year 4M per year and you offer 3 years 3.5M per year, my bid would win.
* If the player you are bidding on has played 24 or more games in his career and thus have used up one or more years of their ELC they are treated as an NHL Free Agent and you must state the number of years you wish to bid. This is true whether they have played 25 games or 500,000 games.
* If the player you are bidding on has played in less than 24 NHL games, you do not have to bid an amount of years because that player is protected and the years defaults to 3 years. When this 3 year ELC expires the player is an RFA and you inherit their real-life contracts until they become a UFA.
* If you bid on a prospect, that prospect can be placed on your 15 man minor league roster without a salary cap hit, until he gains his first year of major league eligibility at which point you will pay him the flat that you bid on him until his ELC expires.
* In order to win a player, 24 hours must pass without a bid higher then the last bid for said player.
Bidding Restrictions:
* The league’s minimum salary requirement is $500,000 avg annual salary (AAS).
* You cannot bid more than $5M more than the prior bid.
* Teams must bid in minimum $100K increments.
* The maximum offer for a 1 year contract is $12M.
* There is no maximum to a multi-year contract as long as you stay under the cap.
* The maximum amount of years you can offer is 5 years.
* You cannot trade a newly signed free agent for 1 week.
Restricted Free Agents
After a player's ELC expires, they become a restricted free agent. Please read rule 8 for rules on restricted free agents.
Releases
* To waive a player and drop him to free agency, you must post the player's name that you are releasing in a new thread in the board titled "Player Releases". This will make permanent the decision to waive a player to free agency. Once posted, there is no turning back.
* A GM will still be responsible for half that player's salary for that season. At the end of that season, the GM will no longer be responsible for that contract, BUT, said GM will not be able to resign that player for a full calendar year of the date of his release OR until the life of his next contract.
* During the year in which you cannot resign said player, you are not allowed to trade for this player as well.
* If you release a player after your season is over (including playoffs), you will still be required to pay half of their salary in the following season.
* If you drop a minor leaguer from your 15 Man Minor League Roster, you will not be responsible for half of that players salary. He will become a Free Agent.
Retired Players
* If a player on your team retires and was on your team when he retired, you are not responsible for his contract and can immediately drop that player with no penalty.
The best NHL contract info on the web:
capgeek.com
Types of Contracts in Stanley Cup Fantasy League
REAL LIFE CONTRACT:
* a real life contract from before the start of the 2012 season still inforce (if the real life contract includes options, please see the bottom of this thread)
* a real life contract for a prospect who was originally in your organization before the start of the 2012 season or from a player you draft in Stanley Cup Fantasy League Minor League Drafts
* a real life contract obtained via franchised tag
* a real life contract resulting from a player's 3 Year Entry Level Contract
Stanley Cup Fantasy League CONTRACT:
* player was signed through Stanley Cup Fantasy League Free Agency
All contracts are determined by CAP HIT, not actual yearly salary, and are rounded to the nearest tenth of a million dollars for easy calculations (i.e. a real life .542M contract becomes .5M, .550M becomes .6M).
Franchise Tags
* To protect against the loss of all free agents in a particular calendar year, a GM is given 1 Franchise Tag and 1 Restricted Tag every offseason. You will have the ability at the end of the year to name your franchised players.
* When you use the Franchise Tag on a player, you assume their real-life contract IN FULL. Sometimes this will be a player who is in FA in real life - you will be forced to take on whatever contract he signs. At other times, the player's contract is expiring in Stanley Cup Fantasy League but not in real life. In those cases, you already know what the salary would be, but you are still able to Tag that player. In this case, "real-life" acts as an arbitrator of sorts in determining a fair market value for these Tagged players.
* If a new "real-life" contract stemming from a Franchise Tag puts a franchise over the salary cap maximum, the GM will receive a notice from the Commissioner’s Office after which time he/she will have less than a week to get back under the cap.
* When you use the Restricted Tag on a player, they are released to the open bidding process like all untagged UFAs. When the winning bid is determined, you are given the option to either match the winning bid in full and keep the player, or if the price tag is too high, you can let the winning GM have the player.
Free Agency Bidding
* If a player is not under contract with any team but he has been signed to a NHL contract in real life before, he is a Stanley Cup Fantasy League Free Agent. This means that players who have not been drafted/signed, or international players who have not been signed, are NOT eligible in Free Agency. Also, Minor League Players who are drafted in each June are NOT eligible to be bid on in FA until after our draft of those players in the offseason.
* If you wish to add a Free Agent to your 35-Man Roster from free agency, we employ OPEN BIDDING FOR ALL FREE AGENTS: post a thread titled with the player's name and position in the Free Agent Bidding area of the message board stating what your contract offer is. Once this is done, the player is now open for bidding to all 30 GM's. Your contract offer should consider the following guidelines.
Bidding Guidelines:
* The offer with the highest average annual salary always wins, even if it is for a shorter term. For example, if I offer 1 year 4M per year and you offer 3 years 3.5M per year, my bid would win.
* If the player you are bidding on has played 24 or more games in his career and thus have used up one or more years of their ELC they are treated as an NHL Free Agent and you must state the number of years you wish to bid. This is true whether they have played 25 games or 500,000 games.
* If the player you are bidding on has played in less than 24 NHL games, you do not have to bid an amount of years because that player is protected and the years defaults to 3 years. When this 3 year ELC expires the player is an RFA and you inherit their real-life contracts until they become a UFA.
* If you bid on a prospect, that prospect can be placed on your 15 man minor league roster without a salary cap hit, until he gains his first year of major league eligibility at which point you will pay him the flat that you bid on him until his ELC expires.
* In order to win a player, 24 hours must pass without a bid higher then the last bid for said player.
Bidding Restrictions:
* The league’s minimum salary requirement is $500,000 avg annual salary (AAS).
* You cannot bid more than $5M more than the prior bid.
* Teams must bid in minimum $100K increments.
* The maximum offer for a 1 year contract is $12M.
* There is no maximum to a multi-year contract as long as you stay under the cap.
* The maximum amount of years you can offer is 5 years.
* You cannot trade a newly signed free agent for 1 week.
Restricted Free Agents
After a player's ELC expires, they become a restricted free agent. Please read rule 8 for rules on restricted free agents.
Releases
* To waive a player and drop him to free agency, you must post the player's name that you are releasing in a new thread in the board titled "Player Releases". This will make permanent the decision to waive a player to free agency. Once posted, there is no turning back.
* A GM will still be responsible for half that player's salary for that season. At the end of that season, the GM will no longer be responsible for that contract, BUT, said GM will not be able to resign that player for a full calendar year of the date of his release OR until the life of his next contract.
* During the year in which you cannot resign said player, you are not allowed to trade for this player as well.
* If you release a player after your season is over (including playoffs), you will still be required to pay half of their salary in the following season.
* If you drop a minor leaguer from your 15 Man Minor League Roster, you will not be responsible for half of that players salary. He will become a Free Agent.
Retired Players
* If a player on your team retires and was on your team when he retired, you are not responsible for his contract and can immediately drop that player with no penalty.