Post by Raiders GM (KevinR) on Mar 26, 2021 10:13:35 GMT -5
As in the NFL, there are two types of Free Agents - Restricted Free Agents (RFA) and Unrestricted Free Agents (UFA). RFAs are players whose rights are still held by a team and may be re-signed after their original contract expires (according to the rules in the RFA section below). UFAs are any players that are not currently under contract by a team. Each pre-season any player who does not have RFA status becomes a UFA once his contract expires. The one exception is that each team may designate 1 Franchise players each season.
Unrestricted Free Agency begins each pre-season in April and ends each season with our Super Bowl at the end of the Week 16 Monday Night game (any bids already in progress at that time will be allowed to be completed and signed by the winner).
All Free Agent auction players who have been won during an offseason auction need to be signed to a 2 to 5 year contract. 1 year contracts are illegal during the offseason, the only time you can sign a player to a 1 year contract is during the fantasy football regular season
•Undrafted Rookie Free Agents that sign with teams after the NFL draft, are eligible to be bid on in free agency.
•Teams may only bid the amount of salary they have in cap space. So only bid the exact amount of money you are willing to give up.
•Players signed during the season will receive 1 year to 5 year contracts, the current year counts as 1 year. These contracts will be UFA, unless the players has under 3 years in the NFL, in which he may be signed as an RFA. The RFA contract may not extend past the players 5th year in the NFL.
•The Off-Season FA Bidding will begin approximately April 1st and continue until the Monday before the kickoff of the NFL season except will be frozen during the Rookie Draft.
•Prior to the Pro Bowl NFL League Rookie Draft only existing NFL players can be acquired during the Off-Season FA process. Once the Pro Bowl NFL League Rookie Draft is held all remaining undrafted rookies will then be available through the Off-Season FA process.
•The Off-Season FA period will be conducted as auction bidding on each FA.
•Starting bids for all FA is $520,000 or $0.52M
•The minimum bid increase will be .1 point
•Teams must meet two basic requirements to place a FA on the auction board or to bid on a FA. (1) Teams must have the salary cap space to meet the minimum salary of $520,000 or the bid amount being placed and have the roster space if the FA is picked up after the roster cut by date.
•All bids will be based on a 24 hour clock. If no one bids on a player for 24 hours, then he is awarded to the team with the highest bid.
*AFTER THE NFL's WEEK 4 GAMES END, GM's CAN SIGN FREE AGENTS TO ONLY ONE YEAR DEALS, NO RFA STATUS ALLOWED ON THESE FREE AGENT BIDS* (This is so the UFA period the next offseason will have tantalising morsels to bid on)
*AFTER THE NFL's WEEK 12 GAMES END, ONLY PLAYOFF TEAMS CAN SIGN FREE AGENTS, ALSO ONLY ONE YEAR DEALS CAN BE OFFERED, NO RFA STATUS ALLOWED ON THESE FREE AGENT BIDS*
Free Agent Bidding:
The process for signing an Unrestricted Free Agent is to create a new thread in the "Unrestricted Free Agents" sub-board under "Free Agency". The thread should have the player's correctly spelled name, NFL team and position in the subject, and a valid bid as the message. Other GMs may reply in this thread with higher bids for the player. The bidding will end when 24 hours has passed since the last valid bid.
Free Agency Sniping Rule
•If you want to bid on a player AFTER the 12 hour mark then the bidding team needs to do both of the following:
1. Identify it as a Snipe Bid
2. Bid at least 1 point more then the previous leading bid
•If you want to bid on a player AFTER the 20 hour mark then the bidding team needs to do both of the following:
1. Identify it as a Snipe Bid
2. Bid at least 2 points more then the previous leading bid
UFA Bidding System:
Contract years add value based on the following: $1M = 1 point
$ x 1.0 for 1 year
$ x 1.2 for 2 years
$ x 1.4 for 3 years
$ x 1.6 for 4 years
$ x 2.0 for 5 years
John Doe (DAL-QB)
4 Years @ $1,200,000 = 1.92 Points
*NO EXTRA BIDDING POINTS ARE ADDED FOR RFA STATUS*
Players may be signed for a maximum of 5 years and your math must be correct for the bid to be valid. The minimum raise for a valid bid will be $100,000 or .1 points. You may not delete the bid, once you post your bid it is final.
*ALL BIDS MUST BE AT THE HUNDREDTH PLACE POINT. EX: .52M OR 1.52M. ONLY TWO NUMBERS AFTER THE DECIMAL.*
A GM can include RFA status in their UFA bid. The player must only have three years of experience or less to get RFA status. The RFA bid cannot exceed the players third year. EX: Jalen Ramsey just finished his second year in the league so to sign him to an RFA contract it can only be a 1year deal with RFA status. (1 year @ 2M + RFA) If a GM is signing an undrafted rookie to a RFA contract they can do a full three year deal plus RFA status.
You must have salary cap space available for a bid to be valid (remember, any Free Agency bids in which you are the leading bidder also count towards your salary cap).
During the season, you must also have roster space available for the bid to be valid (remember, roster limits are lifted during the pre-season). This means you must have less than 53 active players. Players on waivers do not count towards your roster limit. You may conditionally waive a player to make roster space (but not salary cap) for a player as detailed in the "Conditional Waivers" section below.
If a team makes a free agent bid which would put them over the roster or cap limit, that bid is invalid. The last valid bid becomes the leading bid.
Unrestricted Free Agency begins each pre-season in April and ends each season with our Super Bowl at the end of the Week 16 Monday Night game (any bids already in progress at that time will be allowed to be completed and signed by the winner).
All Free Agent auction players who have been won during an offseason auction need to be signed to a 2 to 5 year contract. 1 year contracts are illegal during the offseason, the only time you can sign a player to a 1 year contract is during the fantasy football regular season
•Undrafted Rookie Free Agents that sign with teams after the NFL draft, are eligible to be bid on in free agency.
•Teams may only bid the amount of salary they have in cap space. So only bid the exact amount of money you are willing to give up.
•Players signed during the season will receive 1 year to 5 year contracts, the current year counts as 1 year. These contracts will be UFA, unless the players has under 3 years in the NFL, in which he may be signed as an RFA. The RFA contract may not extend past the players 5th year in the NFL.
•The Off-Season FA Bidding will begin approximately April 1st and continue until the Monday before the kickoff of the NFL season except will be frozen during the Rookie Draft.
•Prior to the Pro Bowl NFL League Rookie Draft only existing NFL players can be acquired during the Off-Season FA process. Once the Pro Bowl NFL League Rookie Draft is held all remaining undrafted rookies will then be available through the Off-Season FA process.
•The Off-Season FA period will be conducted as auction bidding on each FA.
•Starting bids for all FA is $520,000 or $0.52M
•The minimum bid increase will be .1 point
•Teams must meet two basic requirements to place a FA on the auction board or to bid on a FA. (1) Teams must have the salary cap space to meet the minimum salary of $520,000 or the bid amount being placed and have the roster space if the FA is picked up after the roster cut by date.
•All bids will be based on a 24 hour clock. If no one bids on a player for 24 hours, then he is awarded to the team with the highest bid.
*AFTER THE NFL's WEEK 4 GAMES END, GM's CAN SIGN FREE AGENTS TO ONLY ONE YEAR DEALS, NO RFA STATUS ALLOWED ON THESE FREE AGENT BIDS* (This is so the UFA period the next offseason will have tantalising morsels to bid on)
*AFTER THE NFL's WEEK 12 GAMES END, ONLY PLAYOFF TEAMS CAN SIGN FREE AGENTS, ALSO ONLY ONE YEAR DEALS CAN BE OFFERED, NO RFA STATUS ALLOWED ON THESE FREE AGENT BIDS*
Free Agent Bidding:
The process for signing an Unrestricted Free Agent is to create a new thread in the "Unrestricted Free Agents" sub-board under "Free Agency". The thread should have the player's correctly spelled name, NFL team and position in the subject, and a valid bid as the message. Other GMs may reply in this thread with higher bids for the player. The bidding will end when 24 hours has passed since the last valid bid.
Free Agency Sniping Rule
•If you want to bid on a player AFTER the 12 hour mark then the bidding team needs to do both of the following:
1. Identify it as a Snipe Bid
2. Bid at least 1 point more then the previous leading bid
•If you want to bid on a player AFTER the 20 hour mark then the bidding team needs to do both of the following:
1. Identify it as a Snipe Bid
2. Bid at least 2 points more then the previous leading bid
UFA Bidding System:
Contract years add value based on the following: $1M = 1 point
$ x 1.0 for 1 year
$ x 1.2 for 2 years
$ x 1.4 for 3 years
$ x 1.6 for 4 years
$ x 2.0 for 5 years
John Doe (DAL-QB)
4 Years @ $1,200,000 = 1.92 Points
*NO EXTRA BIDDING POINTS ARE ADDED FOR RFA STATUS*
Players may be signed for a maximum of 5 years and your math must be correct for the bid to be valid. The minimum raise for a valid bid will be $100,000 or .1 points. You may not delete the bid, once you post your bid it is final.
*ALL BIDS MUST BE AT THE HUNDREDTH PLACE POINT. EX: .52M OR 1.52M. ONLY TWO NUMBERS AFTER THE DECIMAL.*
A GM can include RFA status in their UFA bid. The player must only have three years of experience or less to get RFA status. The RFA bid cannot exceed the players third year. EX: Jalen Ramsey just finished his second year in the league so to sign him to an RFA contract it can only be a 1year deal with RFA status. (1 year @ 2M + RFA) If a GM is signing an undrafted rookie to a RFA contract they can do a full three year deal plus RFA status.
You must have salary cap space available for a bid to be valid (remember, any Free Agency bids in which you are the leading bidder also count towards your salary cap).
During the season, you must also have roster space available for the bid to be valid (remember, roster limits are lifted during the pre-season). This means you must have less than 53 active players. Players on waivers do not count towards your roster limit. You may conditionally waive a player to make roster space (but not salary cap) for a player as detailed in the "Conditional Waivers" section below.
If a team makes a free agent bid which would put them over the roster or cap limit, that bid is invalid. The last valid bid becomes the leading bid.