Post by Rawhide GM (Jimmy-LM) on Sept 11, 2013 11:20:02 GMT -5
This bid must include the following to be considered valid:
*Number of years of the contract offer
*Total amount of the contract offer
*Average Annual Salary ("AAS")
*a breakdown of the contract per year or note it will be evenly spread.
Example:
Boston Red Sox offer Player A:
5 year contract worth $48M
AAS: $9.6M
2006 - $8M
2007 - $9M
2008 - $10M
2009 - $10M
2010 - $11M
In addition to Rule 5 minimum salary limits, the lowest/highest single year salary of a contract may not be less than 80% of AAS or more than 120% of AAS.
The maximum salary that maybe offered in a one year contract is 15M
Average Annual Salaries between 15-18M must be offered a minimum of 2 years.
Average Annual Salaries between 18-21M must be offered a minimum of 3 years.
Average Annual Salaries between 21-25M must be offered a minimum of 4 years.
Average Annual Salaries exceeding 25M annually must exceed 4 years in length, max length is 6 years.
Minor leaguers:
Until a player becomes a "prospect" as defined by rule, that player is a minor leaguer. All minor leaguers will be given "Signing Bonus" contracts only. Any player that has yet to achieve prospect status (50 IP or 150 AB) will be signed to a MiLB contract.
CONTRACT STRUCTURE
When Bidding on Free agents, GMs must make bids within certain structural limits. This is to prevent excessive backloading of long contracts. Contract structure will should look the following:
Bids with AAS of 7,000,001 or greater:
Any year of the contract can't be paid under 80% or over 120%
Example: 5yrs, AAS=$10.0m 14:$8m, 15:$10m, 16:$10m, 17:$10m, 18:$12m
Bids with AAS of 3,000,001 - 7,000,000
Any year of the contract can't be paid under 60% or over 140%
example: 4yrs, AAS=$6.0m 14:$3.6m, 15:$5.4m, 16:$6.6m, 17:$8.4m
Bids with AAS of 3,000,000 or less
Any year of the contract can't be paid under 40% or over 160%
example: 3yrs, AAS=$2.0 14:$.8m, 15:$2.0m, 16:$3.2m
PRIORITY LISTS
In some situations there may be more players up for bid in which your roster/cap does not allow you to have, but would like to take a stab at all of them in hopes of landing 1. In that case you may send a priority list.
Example- You want 1 of Player A, Player B, and Player C. You would make bids for all 3 with a message of your intent to win only 1 or 2 of these players. Send a list in the order you want to win them, and this will avoid going over roster limits, or your salary cap.
1. Player B
2. Player C
3. Player A
OFF-SEASON (beginning this off-season):
Salary cap and roster (# of players) limits will be handled differently in the off-season and in season. Please refer to each section below for the specifics.
Starting after the winter meetings in December, Free Agent bidding will be held each year.
During the off-season bidding, each calendar week will feature either Restricted Free Agents or a player position as a guideline to that week's bidding. You may ONLY bid on a player in that category that week.
All Restricted Free Agents ("RFAs") will be bid on in the first week of the auctions. Please carefully review all rules for bidding on RFA's as they are significantly different from unrestricted FA's.
Each week thereafter, a field position (i.e. OF, CI, MI, C, SP or RP) will be open for bidding. You will only be allowed to bid on players who played that position each week....i.e. only OF may be bid upon during a week designated for OF's. Bids on a player not at that position will be invalidated. ***Some positions will be combined due to time constraints in the initial season***
Monday 10AM EST - each week, the position category for that week will be posted to the "Contract Offers" link on the league page. You may bid on ANY free agent qualifying under that week's field position category. For end of 2012 year FA's, the listing of players in the General Board dictates the position under which they may be bid. Unlisted FA's and minor leaguers must be bid on based on their predominant position played in the 2012 season. Players may be listed until Thursday 11:59 PM Eastern.
**NOTE - A GM does NOT have to list a player's name or their intention to bid on the league page on any player. The fact that a GM bids and what player(s) a GM bids on are known only by the league office. That gives each GM some degree of secrecy as to your bidding each week. However you may NOT bid on any player that has not been posted at all. In other words, you do not have to do the posting in order to bid on a player, nor do you have to declare your intent to bid, but only players who have been posted are up for bid.
Friday 11:59 PM EST - each week, the deadline for bidding. The submitted bid via PM is date and time sensitive and it dictates if the bid is on time or late. Late bids will be invalidated. No exceptions.
Sunday 11:59 PM EST - the winning bids will be posted under that week's thread in "Winning FA Bids". For RFAs, a further process is noted. For unrestricted FA's, the winning GM must update his roster and team salary information within 72 hours.
With regard to adherence to salary cap and roster size, Ruthian Roto will relax the general rule during the off-season only to allow some flexibility in light of the blind bidding system. Each GM will be allowed to carry up to 5 extra players at any point in time during the auctions. During this off-season exercise, each franchise will be able to exceed their salary cap by up to $10M. You can utilize trading to free up roster and salary cap space. **A word to the wise...bid prudently.
Keep in mind that the roster and cap overages are total amounts...a GM cannot have 4 extra players from each week's bidding sessions. If a team has 4 too many players on it, it must deal 1 or more away in order to bid in the next week's session.
All salary caps and rosters must be in full compliance by the season's Opening Day (first MLB game of season). Failure to be in compliance will mean no stat accumulation on ESPN.
IN SEASON:
Once the regular season begins, the process of FA bidding changes slightly since there will be no weekly randomly drawn batches of players on which to bid.
There will be, however, weekly bidding deadlines to help create an environment of fairness and promote GM activity.
Player Identification - In order sign a player to a 55-man roster, a GM must first indicate interest for that player by posting that player's name, position and ML organization on the league page under the section titled “Contract Offers”.
Players may be posted at any time, however, bids will be counted every Friday at 11:59 PM EST. In order for a player to be eligible for bid in a given period, he must be posted by Thursday at 11:59 PM EST.
Blind Bidding - Once a player is listed, any GM may submit a blind bid to the MLBPA account. Any PM submitted prior to a player being listed will be invalidated. Bids may be submitted until the weekly deadline of Friday 11:59PM EST. Any bid received after the deadline will be invalidated. No exceptions.
Be careful to not exceed your salary cap. If this occurs, the commissioner’s office will send you an email mandating that your team make arrangements to waive players in order to bring the current salary within your team’s salary cap. You will have only 72-hours to do this. If you fail to comply, the League Office will take action and possibly drop your most recently signed player to free agency in order to bring your team under the required salary cap maximum. Or if you sign someone and you don't place him on your 65 man roster within 72 hours he becomes a free agent again. At this point the League Office will notify the league of the player who has recently become a free agent and list them under the area title “Waivers”. The League Office will review each 55-man roster often to make sure you are complying with your team’s assigned salary cap. Remember that player’s salaries do change.
*Number of years of the contract offer
*Total amount of the contract offer
*Average Annual Salary ("AAS")
*a breakdown of the contract per year or note it will be evenly spread.
Example:
Boston Red Sox offer Player A:
5 year contract worth $48M
AAS: $9.6M
2006 - $8M
2007 - $9M
2008 - $10M
2009 - $10M
2010 - $11M
In addition to Rule 5 minimum salary limits, the lowest/highest single year salary of a contract may not be less than 80% of AAS or more than 120% of AAS.
The maximum salary that maybe offered in a one year contract is 15M
Average Annual Salaries between 15-18M must be offered a minimum of 2 years.
Average Annual Salaries between 18-21M must be offered a minimum of 3 years.
Average Annual Salaries between 21-25M must be offered a minimum of 4 years.
Average Annual Salaries exceeding 25M annually must exceed 4 years in length, max length is 6 years.
Minor leaguers:
Until a player becomes a "prospect" as defined by rule, that player is a minor leaguer. All minor leaguers will be given "Signing Bonus" contracts only. Any player that has yet to achieve prospect status (50 IP or 150 AB) will be signed to a MiLB contract.
CONTRACT STRUCTURE
When Bidding on Free agents, GMs must make bids within certain structural limits. This is to prevent excessive backloading of long contracts. Contract structure will should look the following:
Bids with AAS of 7,000,001 or greater:
Any year of the contract can't be paid under 80% or over 120%
Example: 5yrs, AAS=$10.0m 14:$8m, 15:$10m, 16:$10m, 17:$10m, 18:$12m
Bids with AAS of 3,000,001 - 7,000,000
Any year of the contract can't be paid under 60% or over 140%
example: 4yrs, AAS=$6.0m 14:$3.6m, 15:$5.4m, 16:$6.6m, 17:$8.4m
Bids with AAS of 3,000,000 or less
Any year of the contract can't be paid under 40% or over 160%
example: 3yrs, AAS=$2.0 14:$.8m, 15:$2.0m, 16:$3.2m
PRIORITY LISTS
In some situations there may be more players up for bid in which your roster/cap does not allow you to have, but would like to take a stab at all of them in hopes of landing 1. In that case you may send a priority list.
Example- You want 1 of Player A, Player B, and Player C. You would make bids for all 3 with a message of your intent to win only 1 or 2 of these players. Send a list in the order you want to win them, and this will avoid going over roster limits, or your salary cap.
1. Player B
2. Player C
3. Player A
OFF-SEASON (beginning this off-season):
Salary cap and roster (# of players) limits will be handled differently in the off-season and in season. Please refer to each section below for the specifics.
Starting after the winter meetings in December, Free Agent bidding will be held each year.
During the off-season bidding, each calendar week will feature either Restricted Free Agents or a player position as a guideline to that week's bidding. You may ONLY bid on a player in that category that week.
All Restricted Free Agents ("RFAs") will be bid on in the first week of the auctions. Please carefully review all rules for bidding on RFA's as they are significantly different from unrestricted FA's.
Each week thereafter, a field position (i.e. OF, CI, MI, C, SP or RP) will be open for bidding. You will only be allowed to bid on players who played that position each week....i.e. only OF may be bid upon during a week designated for OF's. Bids on a player not at that position will be invalidated. ***Some positions will be combined due to time constraints in the initial season***
Monday 10AM EST - each week, the position category for that week will be posted to the "Contract Offers" link on the league page. You may bid on ANY free agent qualifying under that week's field position category. For end of 2012 year FA's, the listing of players in the General Board dictates the position under which they may be bid. Unlisted FA's and minor leaguers must be bid on based on their predominant position played in the 2012 season. Players may be listed until Thursday 11:59 PM Eastern.
**NOTE - A GM does NOT have to list a player's name or their intention to bid on the league page on any player. The fact that a GM bids and what player(s) a GM bids on are known only by the league office. That gives each GM some degree of secrecy as to your bidding each week. However you may NOT bid on any player that has not been posted at all. In other words, you do not have to do the posting in order to bid on a player, nor do you have to declare your intent to bid, but only players who have been posted are up for bid.
Friday 11:59 PM EST - each week, the deadline for bidding. The submitted bid via PM is date and time sensitive and it dictates if the bid is on time or late. Late bids will be invalidated. No exceptions.
Sunday 11:59 PM EST - the winning bids will be posted under that week's thread in "Winning FA Bids". For RFAs, a further process is noted. For unrestricted FA's, the winning GM must update his roster and team salary information within 72 hours.
With regard to adherence to salary cap and roster size, Ruthian Roto will relax the general rule during the off-season only to allow some flexibility in light of the blind bidding system. Each GM will be allowed to carry up to 5 extra players at any point in time during the auctions. During this off-season exercise, each franchise will be able to exceed their salary cap by up to $10M. You can utilize trading to free up roster and salary cap space. **A word to the wise...bid prudently.
Keep in mind that the roster and cap overages are total amounts...a GM cannot have 4 extra players from each week's bidding sessions. If a team has 4 too many players on it, it must deal 1 or more away in order to bid in the next week's session.
All salary caps and rosters must be in full compliance by the season's Opening Day (first MLB game of season). Failure to be in compliance will mean no stat accumulation on ESPN.
IN SEASON:
Once the regular season begins, the process of FA bidding changes slightly since there will be no weekly randomly drawn batches of players on which to bid.
There will be, however, weekly bidding deadlines to help create an environment of fairness and promote GM activity.
Player Identification - In order sign a player to a 55-man roster, a GM must first indicate interest for that player by posting that player's name, position and ML organization on the league page under the section titled “Contract Offers”.
Players may be posted at any time, however, bids will be counted every Friday at 11:59 PM EST. In order for a player to be eligible for bid in a given period, he must be posted by Thursday at 11:59 PM EST.
Blind Bidding - Once a player is listed, any GM may submit a blind bid to the MLBPA account. Any PM submitted prior to a player being listed will be invalidated. Bids may be submitted until the weekly deadline of Friday 11:59PM EST. Any bid received after the deadline will be invalidated. No exceptions.
Be careful to not exceed your salary cap. If this occurs, the commissioner’s office will send you an email mandating that your team make arrangements to waive players in order to bring the current salary within your team’s salary cap. You will have only 72-hours to do this. If you fail to comply, the League Office will take action and possibly drop your most recently signed player to free agency in order to bring your team under the required salary cap maximum. Or if you sign someone and you don't place him on your 65 man roster within 72 hours he becomes a free agent again. At this point the League Office will notify the league of the player who has recently become a free agent and list them under the area title “Waivers”. The League Office will review each 55-man roster often to make sure you are complying with your team’s assigned salary cap. Remember that player’s salaries do change.
