Post by 4 Horsemen (Admin) on Jun 14, 2013 20:26:47 GMT -6
You will be able to RFA tag any player who is finishing out a 1-2 year contract. You will have 2 RFA tags per year.
For Example: After the 2013 season you have Dez Bryant ending a 2 yr contract. You would be able to RFA tag him and place an RFA tender on him. However if he was finishing up a 3-4 yr contract you would not be able to RFA tag him and would instead have to extend, franchise, or option him to keep him from going to unrestricted free agency.
After Noon on March 16th you will create a player thread with your RFA tags under the RFA Board.
Example: Dez Bryant RFA TAG 1 (whatever year it is) "tender amount". Under this thread is where players will place bids on this player during the RFA bidding period.
You may Tender players as follows:
- $1,000,000
- $1,500,000 + 3rd Round Rookie Pick
- $2,000,000 + 2nd Round Rookie Pick
- $3,000,000 + 1st Round Rookie Pick
The first number is the starting minimum bid while the draft pick is what the RFA tagging owner will receive from the highest bidder if the tagging owner decides not to match the highest bid. These rights may not be traded until RFA bidding has officially started
Any player who is eligible for RFA tagging may be tagged during the given time frame and your organization then controls the "rights" to that player. Rights being the ability to accept draft pick compensation or match the bidded salary.
Once a player is tagged, that tag is locked and may not be modified. At Noon on April 1st RFA bidding will open and other teams may start bidding on RFA tagged players. To bid on any RFA tagged player you must have the salary cap room and the rookie pick necessary to compensate the tagging owner if they decide not to match. RFA bidding will be conducted by offering a yearly salary. Once a player is signed either by the tagging owner or the bidding owner that team may decide the length of contract up to 4 yrs. Tagging owners may not bid on their own players. Once a high bid has been placed on a player and no new bid has been entered after 48 hours then the tagging owner must decide whether to match the offer or take the compensatory draft pick within 24 hour. If they fail to post their decision within 24 hours then the player will got to the highest bidder and they will receive the compensatory pick.. The minimum bid increase is $.5M and will stay that way throughout the bidding on any player. Since it takes 48 hours from the last bid for the auction to close we will not have bid minimum increases. Please don't be a dick and wait till hour 47 to place a bid. Expect this to be a slow process and do not complain if someone bids late in the process. We are doing it this way so that everyone has a shot at the RFA's if they want one.
As a bidder you may not bid on multiple RFA's that have a certain round pick attached to them if you only have 1 pick from that round. Meaning you can't bid on RFA 1 who has a 1st round attached and then 5 minutes later bid on RFA 2 who also has a 1st round attached if you only have 1 1st rounder. You must wait until you are outbid on RFA 1 to bid on RFA 2 in this case.
When you bid on a player please specify which pick is up as your compensatory pick to the RFA tagger.
At Noon on May 1st RFA bidding will end and tagging owners will then have until May 15th at Noon to decide on players that no bids were made on if they will sign them for a 50% increase over the tender or release them into the unrestricted free agency pool.
By June 1st at Noon all owners rosters and salary caps should be up do date and reflect any RFA signings.
A player may only be RFA, optioned, franchised, or extended by any given team once. So choose wisely on what you do with your players and how you bid on them during free agency as their contract length will be important.
For Example: After the 2013 season you have Dez Bryant ending a 2 yr contract. You would be able to RFA tag him and place an RFA tender on him. However if he was finishing up a 3-4 yr contract you would not be able to RFA tag him and would instead have to extend, franchise, or option him to keep him from going to unrestricted free agency.
After Noon on March 16th you will create a player thread with your RFA tags under the RFA Board.
Example: Dez Bryant RFA TAG 1 (whatever year it is) "tender amount". Under this thread is where players will place bids on this player during the RFA bidding period.
You may Tender players as follows:
- $1,000,000
- $1,500,000 + 3rd Round Rookie Pick
- $2,000,000 + 2nd Round Rookie Pick
- $3,000,000 + 1st Round Rookie Pick
The first number is the starting minimum bid while the draft pick is what the RFA tagging owner will receive from the highest bidder if the tagging owner decides not to match the highest bid. These rights may not be traded until RFA bidding has officially started
Any player who is eligible for RFA tagging may be tagged during the given time frame and your organization then controls the "rights" to that player. Rights being the ability to accept draft pick compensation or match the bidded salary.
Once a player is tagged, that tag is locked and may not be modified. At Noon on April 1st RFA bidding will open and other teams may start bidding on RFA tagged players. To bid on any RFA tagged player you must have the salary cap room and the rookie pick necessary to compensate the tagging owner if they decide not to match. RFA bidding will be conducted by offering a yearly salary. Once a player is signed either by the tagging owner or the bidding owner that team may decide the length of contract up to 4 yrs. Tagging owners may not bid on their own players. Once a high bid has been placed on a player and no new bid has been entered after 48 hours then the tagging owner must decide whether to match the offer or take the compensatory draft pick within 24 hour. If they fail to post their decision within 24 hours then the player will got to the highest bidder and they will receive the compensatory pick.. The minimum bid increase is $.5M and will stay that way throughout the bidding on any player. Since it takes 48 hours from the last bid for the auction to close we will not have bid minimum increases. Please don't be a dick and wait till hour 47 to place a bid. Expect this to be a slow process and do not complain if someone bids late in the process. We are doing it this way so that everyone has a shot at the RFA's if they want one.
As a bidder you may not bid on multiple RFA's that have a certain round pick attached to them if you only have 1 pick from that round. Meaning you can't bid on RFA 1 who has a 1st round attached and then 5 minutes later bid on RFA 2 who also has a 1st round attached if you only have 1 1st rounder. You must wait until you are outbid on RFA 1 to bid on RFA 2 in this case.
When you bid on a player please specify which pick is up as your compensatory pick to the RFA tagger.
At Noon on May 1st RFA bidding will end and tagging owners will then have until May 15th at Noon to decide on players that no bids were made on if they will sign them for a 50% increase over the tender or release them into the unrestricted free agency pool.
By June 1st at Noon all owners rosters and salary caps should be up do date and reflect any RFA signings.
A player may only be RFA, optioned, franchised, or extended by any given team once. So choose wisely on what you do with your players and how you bid on them during free agency as their contract length will be important.
