2013 UFA Bids Round 1 were due Saturday 3/11 at 5 pm
NOTE: There is a section for players who were on your team last year but to which your team does NOT hold Bird Rights. Regardless of your cap situation you are permitted to offer these players up to 120% of their previous season's salary or 120% of the veteran minimum, whichever is MORE. This ability is in the game but was not well-documented until now.
WHERE AND HOW TO SUBMIT BIDS:
PUT YOUR BIDS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY LAST NAME!
Bids should be submitted either via the FTP function from your individual node (see viewtopic.php?p=26682#p26682) or to The Negotiator via Private Message (click here to send a Private Message to The Negotiator). This Private message should have the subject "TEAM NAME- Free Agent Bids 2012, Round X" (substitute your team's name for the words "TEAM NAME" in quotes and replace "Round X" with "Round 1" or "Round 2" or "Round 3" as appropriate). Place all of your Free Agent bids in a single message, with one entry per line, formatted as follows:
Player Name; Initial Year's Salary; Yearly Raise Percentage; Total Number of Years; (if desired: Team Option/Player Option)
For example, the Hawks' Private Message should have:
Subject:
Hawks - Free Agent Bids 2013, Round 1
Body:
Eric Montross; $7,632,314; 12.5%; 5
Khalid Reeves; $7,632,314; 10.0%; 4 (team option)
Brooks Thompson; $3,000,000; 3.5%; 2
RULES ON LEGAL BIDS:
Each team may submit up to ten (10) bids. Bids in excess of ten will be ignored.
The maximum starting salary that can be offered to a player is based on his years of experience. You may check this amount using http://pbsl.ijbl.net/check.htm and entering his years of experience.
For players that finished the previous season on your team, regardless of Bird Rights status, the maximum starting salary 120% of his contract last season or the maximum you would be able to offer under the situations described below, whichever is MORE.
If a player ended last season on your team AND his player page says he has at least 3 Bird Years, your team has "Bird Rights" with that player.
For players to which your team holds Bird Rights:
- A starting salary of up to the maximum for a player with his years of service regardless of cap situation.
- Yearly raises of 0% to 12.5%, in increments of 0.5% (i.e., 0%, 0.5%, 1.0%, 1.5% etc.)
- Contract lengths of anywhere from 1 to 5 years (except for veteran minimum contracts, which may be for one year only).
- If desired, may designate the final year of a multi-year deal as "team option" or "player option" (if neither is selected, the default is "guaranteed")
- A starting salary up to the current maximum for a player with his years of service (use http://pbsl.ijbl.net/check.htm to check this) OR the amount of salary cap space your team has available (use http://pbsl.ijbl.net/capreport.htm to check this), whichever is LESS. If your team has no cap space remaining, you are still permitted to offer contracts for the "minimum" (varies based on a player's years of experience). Minimum contracts may only be for one season.
- Yearly raises of 0% to 10.0% in increments of 0.5% (i.e., 0%, 0.5%, 1.0%, 1.5% etc.)
- Contract lengths of anywhere from 1 to 4 years (except veteran minimum contracts, which are 1 year only).
- If desired, may designate the final year of a multi-year deal as "team option" or "player option" (if neither is selected, the default is "guaranteed")
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
For minimum/maximum salary amounts, please refer to http://pbsl.ijbl.net/check.htm
