#SLOE: People's Basketball Sim League

Salary Cap and Trade Checking Tools: Enhanced/check.htm

This should have the rules FBB uses built in, to wit:
1. No matter cap situation, a team may always decrease its salary in trades
2. A team increasing its salary must have either (a) enough cap space to take on ALL of an increase in salary or (b) must have sent out at least 80% of the salary it is receiving (or if you prefer, a team can receive up to 125% of outgoing salary)

Reminder: Salary cap space is not considered salary for purposes of 125% match. You cannot mix and match salary matching and cap space, it must be totally done with one or the other.

DISCLAIMER: I make no guarantees the checker page is perfect and FBB won't reject your trade.

Trade Rules
Before submitting your finalized trade thread, please make sure your trade follows these basic rules and guidelines.

Trading Players
- You cannot trade away more than 5 players and/or picks in a single trade (points are not considered players or picks).
- You must wait until Dec. 15 to trade a player acquired in the offseason (if a player was re-signed in free agency and did not change teams, he can be traded any time).
- You must wait 60 days (on the in-game calendar) to trade a player you sign from waivers in the regular season.
- A team cannot sign back players they had traded away during the current season that were later cut by another team.
- A trade cannot bring a roster to more than 15 players - e.g., if you have 15 players already, you cannot trade one player for two players without first waiving a player on your roster (or sending him away in another trade).

Trading Picks and Points
- You may not make a trade that leaves you without a first round pick (does not have to be your own) in consecutive future seasons - sometimes called the "Ted Stepien" rule. (Note once a draft is past, it is no longer a "future" seasons so whether or not you had a pick in the most recent draft does not affect whether you must retain a pick in the next upcoming draft).
- You cannot trade picks not shown in the HTML exports (i.e., you have 3 years of picks to work with at any time).
- You cannot trade more than 15 Points in a single trade. In a multi-team trade, no single team may send more than 15 points out, but each team is allowed to send up to 15 point out.
- Points may only be transferred to another owner via trade. You may not "pay points" for someone else to complete your duties as an owner (e.g., counting up points earned for prior seasons).
- You may not trade "only" points - at least one pick and/or player must be involved.
- If at least one team is sending points in a trade, the trade will not be processed until each team sending points deducts from their bank and links to the deduction.

Team Trade Rules
- If a team is both 1. adding salary in a trade and 2. completing the trade would cause that team to be over the salary cap for the current year, then the "incoming" salary to that team must be no more than 125% of the "outgoing" salary. Please use the Trade Checker above if uncertain.
- No 2-part trades.

Trade Deadline: Usually sim after All-Star Break

Remember
- If your team is above the salary cap use 0 as your cap
- Do not use commas when entering salary.
- DISCLAIMER: Trade Checker may not always work.