Post by Denver Nuggets on Jul 18, 2009 12:27:19 GMT -5
FREE AGENCY LAST OFFERS LAST FOR 24 HOURS.
Submitting Offers:
You may not offer a contract that is backloaded. These are the guidelines for maximum amount of raise allowed:
Salary Increase Scale:
Year 1 of contract: $2,500,000 or less= $500,000
Year 1 of contract: $2,500,001 to $6,000,000= $2,000,000
Year 1 of contract: $6,000,001 or more= $3,000,000
**Note: There is no limit to the amount a contract can decrease.**
Maximum Length For Contract: 7 years
Maximum Total For Contract: $140,000,000
Maximum Salary For 1 Season: $22,500,000
Minimum Salary For 1 Season: $500,000
Minimum Total For 1 Season: $500,000
Minimum Length For Contract: 1 year
Posting an Offer:
Create a thread in the 'Off-Season Free Agent Offers' board. Make sure you state the name and rating of the player you're bidding on, the salary you're willing to offer the player, your team's salary situation for each year of the contract you're offering.
Example template:
Allen Iverson 84 PG (Offering: 50 Million for 5 years)
09/10: $10,000,000
10/11: $10,000,000
11/12: $10,000,000
12/13: $10,000,000
13/14: $10,000,000
Total Team Salary:
09/10: $63,500,000
10/11: $58,243,000
11/12: $24,453,000
12/13: $12,450,000
13/14: $10,000,000
Factors:
The highest salary will not necessarily win the services for a player. There are many factors that the agent considers such as the player's expected playing-time, position they'll be playing, a GM's history and experience and your team's chances of success are just as important.
Mid-Level Exception:
Lastly, you can only sign free agents using an exception if you are over the soft cap. You can sign rookies with the rookie exception, and other players to the $500K league minimum. In addition, you also have a Mid Level Exception (MLE) worth $5M which you can use. We aren't using Bi-annual and low level exceptions. Only teams over the soft cap before the contract extension period have the MLE.
If you're over the 75,000,000 cap, you can not bid on a free agent unless you're using your MLE.
We're trying to keep salaries realistic here so if a contract is ludicrous we will not accept it and it will be deleted.
If you are under the cap by even a dollar, you can not use a MLE. You have to be over the cap to use that. If you're at 74,999,999. Then all you can bid on a free agent for is the dollar. You're out of luck otherwise.
Submitting Offers:
You may not offer a contract that is backloaded. These are the guidelines for maximum amount of raise allowed:
Salary Increase Scale:
Year 1 of contract: $2,500,000 or less= $500,000
Year 1 of contract: $2,500,001 to $6,000,000= $2,000,000
Year 1 of contract: $6,000,001 or more= $3,000,000
**Note: There is no limit to the amount a contract can decrease.**
Maximum Length For Contract: 7 years
Maximum Total For Contract: $140,000,000
Maximum Salary For 1 Season: $22,500,000
Minimum Salary For 1 Season: $500,000
Minimum Total For 1 Season: $500,000
Minimum Length For Contract: 1 year
Posting an Offer:
Create a thread in the 'Off-Season Free Agent Offers' board. Make sure you state the name and rating of the player you're bidding on, the salary you're willing to offer the player, your team's salary situation for each year of the contract you're offering.
Example template:
Allen Iverson 84 PG (Offering: 50 Million for 5 years)
09/10: $10,000,000
10/11: $10,000,000
11/12: $10,000,000
12/13: $10,000,000
13/14: $10,000,000
Total Team Salary:
09/10: $63,500,000
10/11: $58,243,000
11/12: $24,453,000
12/13: $12,450,000
13/14: $10,000,000
Factors:
The highest salary will not necessarily win the services for a player. There are many factors that the agent considers such as the player's expected playing-time, position they'll be playing, a GM's history and experience and your team's chances of success are just as important.
Mid-Level Exception:
Lastly, you can only sign free agents using an exception if you are over the soft cap. You can sign rookies with the rookie exception, and other players to the $500K league minimum. In addition, you also have a Mid Level Exception (MLE) worth $5M which you can use. We aren't using Bi-annual and low level exceptions. Only teams over the soft cap before the contract extension period have the MLE.
If you're over the 75,000,000 cap, you can not bid on a free agent unless you're using your MLE.
We're trying to keep salaries realistic here so if a contract is ludicrous we will not accept it and it will be deleted.
If you are under the cap by even a dollar, you can not use a MLE. You have to be over the cap to use that. If you're at 74,999,999. Then all you can bid on a free agent for is the dollar. You're out of luck otherwise.