Free Agency Market - Matching Day

The second day of the Free Agency Market is reserved for GMs wishing to match Offer Sheets tendered to their own players. But there is a hitch. You need to still have an available Offer Sheet to send to your player to match.

Once Day One ends, all Offer Sheets tendered are made public. If one of your players has received an Offer Sheet .... AND you still have an Offer Sheet remaining, you may use that Offer Sheet to match the offer on the table. Your player will sign it and stay with your franchise.

This free market system is as volatile as the stock market. Trying to forecast which players will gain all the attention is very tricky. Sometimes the marquee players are avoided like the plague as GMs don't want to waste their Sheets on high-profile players and risk wasting their Sheets.

But be warned. As the GM, you need to keep track of your salary cap situation as well as how many roster vacancies you have. Be mindful of your every off-season move. No GM likes to be called into the League Offices when their team has gone over the salary cap. It isn't a pretty meeting.

Rules for Offer Sheets tiebreaks:
Team A has 6 players who are available to become free agents. Here's how the tie-breakers work:

a) The player with the most bids is a free agent
b) The player with the highest bid is a free agent
c) Team with the worst W/L record (draft order)
d) In case that 2 players from the same team are bid on by the same team with the worst W/L record (draft order), we then take timestamp.

So, in our case, whoever gets the most bids (they very well be all at 1.5M$ and other players get 10M$ bids) is the #1 free agent. Then we go to whoever has the 2nd most bids. If there's a tie, we take whoever had the highest offer. Then we go with draft order. And as a last resort, if 2 players from the same team are bid on by the same team, we take the timestamp.

And if you are thinking about a "Sign-and-Trade" deal, slow down. All players signed through the market must play at least one season with their new teams before they are allowed to be traded.