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.
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