Post by Detroit Tigers GM (Steve) on Nov 6, 2018 21:43:59 GMT -5
There are two types of free agency in Gopher Ball:
Restricted Free Agency (RFA) and Unrestricted Free Agency (URFA).
Restricted Free Agency
-Restricted Free Agency takes place in the off-season when a team uses a Restricted Tag on one of its pending free agents (normally held in January), and when foreign players come to the United States and do not enter the MLB Amateur Draft.
-In Restricted Free Agency, all teams are allowed to bid on the player, with the team that owns his rights having the option to match the highest legal bid or allow the team with the highest bid to sign him.
-When placing a bid during Restricted Free Agency, you must bid within the following guidelines:
-$0.4-$3M Average Annual Salary-Contract can be 1-6 years in length
-$3.1M-$6M Average Annual Salary-Contract can be 2-6 years in length
-$6.1M-$9M Average Annual Salary-Contract can be between 3-6 years in length
-$9.1M-$12M Average Annual Salary-Contract can be between 4-6 years in length
-$12.1M-$15M Average Annual Salary-Contract can be between 5-6 years in length
-$15.1M+ Average Annual Salary-Contract can only be 6 years in length.
-The team with the option to match the winning bid has 72 hours after results are released to announce its decision. After that, the highest, legal bid owns the player.
NOTE:In the event no bids are received for the player in Restricted Free Agency, the team holding the rights to the player can sign the player to a 0.4 contract for up to two years or they can release the player.
RFA Compensation
-Any RFA's that are not matched might be eligible for compensation. If the AAS of the RFA is 5.0M or greater, compensation will be awarded to the franchise that lost the RFA.
-The franchise that loses an RFA with an AAS of 5.0M to 9.9M is given the right to choose one player amongst the franchise that won the RFAs MLB Amateur draft or players signed via the International Bonus Pool (international amateurs: under age 23 at the time of signing, and less than 5 years experience in a professional league) from the upcoming season. Any players selected in the MLB draft in round 1 or 2 (including supp picks) are not eligible to be chosen.
-The franchise that loses an RFA with an AAS of 10M or more is given the right to choose one player amongst the franchise that won the RFAs MLB amateur draft, players signed via the International Bonus Pool, and international professional players signed (age 23+, and 5 yrs experience in a prof. league overseas, examples: Daisuke Matsuzaka, Yu Darvish, Rusney Castillo) as a FA that have never been signed by an MLB team before from the upcoming season.
-The teams selecting a player are allowed to choose from the entire eligible pool, i.e. the team that signed the RFA does not have to have signed that player via the draft announcements thread.
-If any franchise wins multiple RFA's with an AAS of 5MM or greater, the franchise losing the player with the highest AAS will be allowed to make the first choice from the winning franchises pool, the second highest AAS will be allowed to make the first choice from the winning franchises pool. If there is a tie in AAS, the losing franchise with the worst prior year roto finish will choose first.
Unrestricted Free Agency
-Unrestricted Free Agency begins immediately after the Restricted Free Agency period and last throughout the rest of the off-season and the entire regular season up until the Trade Deadline.
-Unrestricted Free Agents must have their name posted as up-for-bid in the Free Agent section of the Proboards site before you may bid on them. After the player is posted as up-for-bid, all 30 teams have the right to bid on the player with nobody having the option to match the winning bid. Unrestricted Free Agents always go to the highest legal bid.
-Unrestricted Free Agency always runs from Monday through Sunday, with teams allowed to announce players as up-for-bid Monday thru Wednesday, and bidding remaining open to all 30 teams thru Friday. Results of the bidding will be announced over the weekend.
-In Unresticted Free Agency, you must follow these guidelines when bidding:
-$0.4M Average Annual Salary-Contract can be no more than two years in length
-$0.5-$0.7 Average Annual Salary-Contract can be no more than three years in length
$0.8+-Contract can be anywhere from one to six years in length
Note:Minors or players with PP years remaining can have a .4PP bid submitted. The .4 bid must be bid as ".4PP" in order to be valid.
Blind Bidding
-All free agency in Gopher Ball Dynasty League is done by blind bidding. When a team wants to bid on a player, they send a Private Message to the MLBPA account of the Proboards site. All bids remain sealed (unopened) until after the period has closed.
-When submitting a bid, the following information should always be included in order for the bid to be legal:
-Your team name and the player's name you are bidding on
-Number of years of the contract's and total money offered
-Average Annual Salary ("AAS")
-Submit bid to the tenths (bids not submitted to the tenths are invalid)
-Use of priority lists are recommended to prevent going over the salary cap by winning more bids than expected. If by accident a team wins bids totaling more than their salary cap within reason (within $5.0M of their cap), they will have 72 hours to get under the cap or will forfeit winning bids until they fall under the cap. If team grossly exceeds their cap by winning bids (exceeding greater than $5.0M their cap), they immediately forfeit winning bids until they fall under the cap.
Example:Red Sox offer Player A:
5 year contract worth $48.5M
AAS: $9.7M
-The year-by-year breakdown of the contract will be announced by the winning GM after the winning bids are announced.
-The winning bid is determined by highest Average Annual Salary offered. If there is a tie in AAS, the team which offered the highest AAS and the most years wins the player. If there is still a tie after that, the team that offered the contract first wins the player.
Gopherball UFA Contracts
-The following restrictions apply to both Restricted and Unrestricted free agency contracts:
- Year one of the contract must be at least AAS or higher
- The highest single year salary of a contract may not exceed AAS times 2.
- The lowest single year salary of a contract may not be less than 40% of AAS. (Exception to 40% floor is if in rounding down it drops below 40%, i.e. a 1.1 AAS bid has 40% floor of .44, and you are allowed to round down to .4)
Releasing Players
-Teams may release players into Unrestricted Free Agency by simply posting the player's name in the Players Released section of the Proboards site.
-If the player is on a Minor League or Prospect Protected contract he can be released without penalty. If he has a salary (in the present or a future year) of $400,000, $500,000, or has an option year of a contract (that has not yet been picked up), no penalty will apply for those years only. If the salary is $600,00 or greater your team must pay a 50 percent buyout fee for those seasons. This penalty may be paid in full this season as long as it is applied before July 31st of the current season, or at 50 percent yearly for the remainder of the contract. Your decision on how to pay the buyout fee must be announced at the same time you announce the release of the player. If the salary of the player you are waiving ends in an odd number, you merely ignore the second digit. For example if a player costs $700,000 and you decide to waive the player, the fee of $350,000 is $300,000 or 0.3, since 0.35 sees the five eliminated. Only one digit past the decimal is used.
-Any first time, new owner to a franchise is allotted two free drops to use within their first 60 days of taking on the role of GM. Free drops are simply a waiver with no penalty assigned. Any free drop of a player with a salary exceeding $10M in the current year results in that player being ineligible to be posted again for UFA until the following season.
When a player has an extenuating circumstance:
If a player that is retiring is on a real-life contract, you are off the hook 100 percent if he retires and owe zero for the remainder of the contract.
If the player is on a Gopher Ball contract, one that he signed through Gopher Ball free agency, then you are responsible for 50 percent of the first year of the contract and any subsequent years are eliminated when the player retires.
If the player is signed on a gopher ball contract, then signs with a team in Japan, Korea, etc, the team is responsible for 50 percent of the current season, eliminating the salaries for all future years.
If a player is hurt so badly that he has to retire, then you are responsible for 50 percent of the remainder of the contract in that season, since owners can't control injuries. All future seasons are eliminated, since the player is in breach of contract and can't contribute any longer.
If a player dies, no matter real-life contract or Gopher Ball contract, you are 100 percent off the hook for the total amount of the contract.
If a player leaves baseball but does not officially announce his retirement, normal waiver fees apply.
Waiving fees if player is signed by another franchise
After you have waived a player and chosen whether to apply all of the 50% fee in the current season or spread out over the course of the prior contracts length at 50% it is possible for the fee to be reduced if the player is resigned to another franchise or a situation arises that allows the original team to resign the player and absorb the fees. Please note that changes in waiver fees are applied when the player resigns with the next team. They will not apply again if the player is released by the next team and resigned by a third team. If you resign the player you waived, the waiver fees remain unchanged, but the following then applies.
When a team waives a player and has outstanding waiver fees, the waiver fees remain unchanged until the player is resigned. If the original team then wants to resign the player again that was released, the team now owns the player and the signing fee is added to the waiver fee for that season.
Example:
Player A: 1.0, 0.8, 0.6 in waiver fees.
When the player is resigned by the same team for 0.4 and one year only, the new contract is then added to the waiver fee for that season or it is posted as 1.4. At the same time, the signing team has the option to leave future waiver fees intact or merge them into the contract signed, since they are recreating a new contract for the player, overriding the previous contract. See example below:
Example: 2015 is 1.0 plus 0.4 equals 1.4 in 2015 or the team can merge the 1.4 future waiver fees into 2015, making the salary 2.8 in the current season. That is based on a one-year signing. NOTE: It changes if it is a two or three year signing.
Example B: 2015 is 1.4, plus 0.4 added to 0.8 makes 1.2 in 2016, and 1.0 in 2017, using 0.4 as the example. Waiver fees aren't a punishment to teams that are written in stone. They are merely a penalty for waiving a player and if the same team resigns them, the waiver fees are then added to salary by the team signing the player a second time. The teams have the option if they want to eliminate future waiver fees by adding them to the current season's salary. NOTE: the team must have the available cap space to take advantage of this option.
Waiver fees are flexible, in the same way another team signs the player and has the fees reduced or eliminated, based on years of the contract. Every team has the option to remove future waiver fees by resigning the player, providing they have the space on their cap for both the fee and new salary. A disadvantage to signing the player a second time, is that player cannot be waived a second time by the same team during the current season, as outlined below.
If you have chosen to apply the fee over multiple years (or the player was on a one-year contract) the fee is applied in the following manner:
1. The fee can only be applied to the current season and ONCE per season per player.
2. The fee amount subtracted is the AAS amount signed to via UFA.
3. If the AAS amount is greater than the total fee, the fee is eliminated. You cannot reduce the fee by more than the AAS bid in any given year.
If the player was on a multi-year contract and you chose to pay 50% of the contract total all in the current season, and thus have no fees applied from this player in future years, the following applies:
1. When the player is signed by the next franchise, you will take 100% of the new contract total and reduce the fee by that amount.
2. You cannot reduce the fee by more than 100%
MiLB Free Agency,Rule V Draft, and International FA
-A minor league player not on a Gopher Ball team is considered an Unrestricted Free Agent and will run through URFA and follow all URFA guidelines. The only exception to this are International Amateurs, International Professionals and players drafted and signed in the Rule IV draft in the current calendar year (Jan 1- Dec 31). These players can not be posted to UFA until the following calendar year.
Eligible minor league free agents may be offered a Minor League contract (aka Prospect Protection contract) or a Major League contract. A Minor League contract gives the player a $0.4M contract until he uses up his prospect protection (the four seasons following the year a player exceeds 50IP or 150 at bats at the major league level.
International Amateurs, International Professionals and players drafted and signed in the Rule IV draft in the current calendar year (Jan 1- Dec 31). These players can not be posted to UFA until the following calendar year are not considered free agents until the team that they are drafted & signed by declines to sign them to a contract. The deadline for this is the last day of the calendar year (12/31). Any players signed by the MLB franchise (in real life) are first allowed to be signed by their Gopherball counterpart. Any players not selected/signed by the Gopherball franchise first become eligible for bidding in the following seasons Week One UFA period.
International Professionals-Players with at least five years of professional experience (outside of MLB) that are 23 years of age or older have been considered professionals and been exempt from international bonus pools as declared by MLB. Players in this tier are allowed to be added to the roster of the gopherball franchise that the player signed with in MLB. In order to add this player to your roster, you must assume the players real life contract in its entirety. You must notify the league of this in the IFA-Draft Acquisitions thread for the correct year by 12/31 of the same year the player signed.
International Amateurs-Players eligible for an MLB franchises International Bonus Pool, generally under age 23 and less than five years of professional experience (outside of MLB). Players in this tier are allowed to be added to the roster of the gopherball franchise that the player signed with in MLB. In order to add this player to your roster, you must notify the league of this in the IFA-Draft Acquisitions thread for the correct year by 12/31 of the same year the player signed. Players in this tier assume a .4minor salary that will turn into a PP contract if they exceed the 50IP or 150 at bat threshold.
Rule IV Draftees-Players in this tier that have signed with the team that drafted them (unsigned players are not eligible to be added) are allowed to be added to the roster of the Gopherball franchise that the player signed with in MLB. In order to add this player to your roster, you must notify the league of this in the IFA-Draft Acquisitions thread for the correct year by 12/31 of the same year the player signed. Players in this tier assume a .4minor salary that will turn into a PP contract if they exceed the 50IP or 150AB threshold.
Additional Free Agency Rules
- All bids are legal and binding. You may not make a bid and then not honor it, although you are allowed to submit priority lists, i.e. if i win player x i do not want the bid for player y to count, i only want 2 players won etc.
- A player not signed to a contract with one of the 30 Major League franchises may not be announced as up-for-bid in either RFA or URFA.
-If you post a player for bidding, this does not count as a minimum bid. You must submit a bid to the mlbpa account
Restricted Free Agency (RFA) and Unrestricted Free Agency (URFA).
Restricted Free Agency
-Restricted Free Agency takes place in the off-season when a team uses a Restricted Tag on one of its pending free agents (normally held in January), and when foreign players come to the United States and do not enter the MLB Amateur Draft.
-In Restricted Free Agency, all teams are allowed to bid on the player, with the team that owns his rights having the option to match the highest legal bid or allow the team with the highest bid to sign him.
-When placing a bid during Restricted Free Agency, you must bid within the following guidelines:
-$0.4-$3M Average Annual Salary-Contract can be 1-6 years in length
-$3.1M-$6M Average Annual Salary-Contract can be 2-6 years in length
-$6.1M-$9M Average Annual Salary-Contract can be between 3-6 years in length
-$9.1M-$12M Average Annual Salary-Contract can be between 4-6 years in length
-$12.1M-$15M Average Annual Salary-Contract can be between 5-6 years in length
-$15.1M+ Average Annual Salary-Contract can only be 6 years in length.
-The team with the option to match the winning bid has 72 hours after results are released to announce its decision. After that, the highest, legal bid owns the player.
NOTE:In the event no bids are received for the player in Restricted Free Agency, the team holding the rights to the player can sign the player to a 0.4 contract for up to two years or they can release the player.
RFA Compensation
-Any RFA's that are not matched might be eligible for compensation. If the AAS of the RFA is 5.0M or greater, compensation will be awarded to the franchise that lost the RFA.
-The franchise that loses an RFA with an AAS of 5.0M to 9.9M is given the right to choose one player amongst the franchise that won the RFAs MLB Amateur draft or players signed via the International Bonus Pool (international amateurs: under age 23 at the time of signing, and less than 5 years experience in a professional league) from the upcoming season. Any players selected in the MLB draft in round 1 or 2 (including supp picks) are not eligible to be chosen.
-The franchise that loses an RFA with an AAS of 10M or more is given the right to choose one player amongst the franchise that won the RFAs MLB amateur draft, players signed via the International Bonus Pool, and international professional players signed (age 23+, and 5 yrs experience in a prof. league overseas, examples: Daisuke Matsuzaka, Yu Darvish, Rusney Castillo) as a FA that have never been signed by an MLB team before from the upcoming season.
-The teams selecting a player are allowed to choose from the entire eligible pool, i.e. the team that signed the RFA does not have to have signed that player via the draft announcements thread.
-If any franchise wins multiple RFA's with an AAS of 5MM or greater, the franchise losing the player with the highest AAS will be allowed to make the first choice from the winning franchises pool, the second highest AAS will be allowed to make the first choice from the winning franchises pool. If there is a tie in AAS, the losing franchise with the worst prior year roto finish will choose first.
Unrestricted Free Agency
-Unrestricted Free Agency begins immediately after the Restricted Free Agency period and last throughout the rest of the off-season and the entire regular season up until the Trade Deadline.
-Unrestricted Free Agents must have their name posted as up-for-bid in the Free Agent section of the Proboards site before you may bid on them. After the player is posted as up-for-bid, all 30 teams have the right to bid on the player with nobody having the option to match the winning bid. Unrestricted Free Agents always go to the highest legal bid.
-Unrestricted Free Agency always runs from Monday through Sunday, with teams allowed to announce players as up-for-bid Monday thru Wednesday, and bidding remaining open to all 30 teams thru Friday. Results of the bidding will be announced over the weekend.
-In Unresticted Free Agency, you must follow these guidelines when bidding:
-$0.4M Average Annual Salary-Contract can be no more than two years in length
-$0.5-$0.7 Average Annual Salary-Contract can be no more than three years in length
$0.8+-Contract can be anywhere from one to six years in length
Note:Minors or players with PP years remaining can have a .4PP bid submitted. The .4 bid must be bid as ".4PP" in order to be valid.
Blind Bidding
-All free agency in Gopher Ball Dynasty League is done by blind bidding. When a team wants to bid on a player, they send a Private Message to the MLBPA account of the Proboards site. All bids remain sealed (unopened) until after the period has closed.
-When submitting a bid, the following information should always be included in order for the bid to be legal:
-Your team name and the player's name you are bidding on
-Number of years of the contract's and total money offered
-Average Annual Salary ("AAS")
-Submit bid to the tenths (bids not submitted to the tenths are invalid)
-Use of priority lists are recommended to prevent going over the salary cap by winning more bids than expected. If by accident a team wins bids totaling more than their salary cap within reason (within $5.0M of their cap), they will have 72 hours to get under the cap or will forfeit winning bids until they fall under the cap. If team grossly exceeds their cap by winning bids (exceeding greater than $5.0M their cap), they immediately forfeit winning bids until they fall under the cap.
Example:Red Sox offer Player A:
5 year contract worth $48.5M
AAS: $9.7M
-The year-by-year breakdown of the contract will be announced by the winning GM after the winning bids are announced.
-The winning bid is determined by highest Average Annual Salary offered. If there is a tie in AAS, the team which offered the highest AAS and the most years wins the player. If there is still a tie after that, the team that offered the contract first wins the player.
Gopherball UFA Contracts
-The following restrictions apply to both Restricted and Unrestricted free agency contracts:
- Year one of the contract must be at least AAS or higher
- The highest single year salary of a contract may not exceed AAS times 2.
- The lowest single year salary of a contract may not be less than 40% of AAS. (Exception to 40% floor is if in rounding down it drops below 40%, i.e. a 1.1 AAS bid has 40% floor of .44, and you are allowed to round down to .4)
Releasing Players
-Teams may release players into Unrestricted Free Agency by simply posting the player's name in the Players Released section of the Proboards site.
-If the player is on a Minor League or Prospect Protected contract he can be released without penalty. If he has a salary (in the present or a future year) of $400,000, $500,000, or has an option year of a contract (that has not yet been picked up), no penalty will apply for those years only. If the salary is $600,00 or greater your team must pay a 50 percent buyout fee for those seasons. This penalty may be paid in full this season as long as it is applied before July 31st of the current season, or at 50 percent yearly for the remainder of the contract. Your decision on how to pay the buyout fee must be announced at the same time you announce the release of the player. If the salary of the player you are waiving ends in an odd number, you merely ignore the second digit. For example if a player costs $700,000 and you decide to waive the player, the fee of $350,000 is $300,000 or 0.3, since 0.35 sees the five eliminated. Only one digit past the decimal is used.
-Any first time, new owner to a franchise is allotted two free drops to use within their first 60 days of taking on the role of GM. Free drops are simply a waiver with no penalty assigned. Any free drop of a player with a salary exceeding $10M in the current year results in that player being ineligible to be posted again for UFA until the following season.
When a player has an extenuating circumstance:
If a player that is retiring is on a real-life contract, you are off the hook 100 percent if he retires and owe zero for the remainder of the contract.
If the player is on a Gopher Ball contract, one that he signed through Gopher Ball free agency, then you are responsible for 50 percent of the first year of the contract and any subsequent years are eliminated when the player retires.
If the player is signed on a gopher ball contract, then signs with a team in Japan, Korea, etc, the team is responsible for 50 percent of the current season, eliminating the salaries for all future years.
If a player is hurt so badly that he has to retire, then you are responsible for 50 percent of the remainder of the contract in that season, since owners can't control injuries. All future seasons are eliminated, since the player is in breach of contract and can't contribute any longer.
If a player dies, no matter real-life contract or Gopher Ball contract, you are 100 percent off the hook for the total amount of the contract.
If a player leaves baseball but does not officially announce his retirement, normal waiver fees apply.
Waiving fees if player is signed by another franchise
After you have waived a player and chosen whether to apply all of the 50% fee in the current season or spread out over the course of the prior contracts length at 50% it is possible for the fee to be reduced if the player is resigned to another franchise or a situation arises that allows the original team to resign the player and absorb the fees. Please note that changes in waiver fees are applied when the player resigns with the next team. They will not apply again if the player is released by the next team and resigned by a third team. If you resign the player you waived, the waiver fees remain unchanged, but the following then applies.
When a team waives a player and has outstanding waiver fees, the waiver fees remain unchanged until the player is resigned. If the original team then wants to resign the player again that was released, the team now owns the player and the signing fee is added to the waiver fee for that season.
Example:
Player A: 1.0, 0.8, 0.6 in waiver fees.
When the player is resigned by the same team for 0.4 and one year only, the new contract is then added to the waiver fee for that season or it is posted as 1.4. At the same time, the signing team has the option to leave future waiver fees intact or merge them into the contract signed, since they are recreating a new contract for the player, overriding the previous contract. See example below:
Example: 2015 is 1.0 plus 0.4 equals 1.4 in 2015 or the team can merge the 1.4 future waiver fees into 2015, making the salary 2.8 in the current season. That is based on a one-year signing. NOTE: It changes if it is a two or three year signing.
Example B: 2015 is 1.4, plus 0.4 added to 0.8 makes 1.2 in 2016, and 1.0 in 2017, using 0.4 as the example. Waiver fees aren't a punishment to teams that are written in stone. They are merely a penalty for waiving a player and if the same team resigns them, the waiver fees are then added to salary by the team signing the player a second time. The teams have the option if they want to eliminate future waiver fees by adding them to the current season's salary. NOTE: the team must have the available cap space to take advantage of this option.
Waiver fees are flexible, in the same way another team signs the player and has the fees reduced or eliminated, based on years of the contract. Every team has the option to remove future waiver fees by resigning the player, providing they have the space on their cap for both the fee and new salary. A disadvantage to signing the player a second time, is that player cannot be waived a second time by the same team during the current season, as outlined below.
If you have chosen to apply the fee over multiple years (or the player was on a one-year contract) the fee is applied in the following manner:
1. The fee can only be applied to the current season and ONCE per season per player.
2. The fee amount subtracted is the AAS amount signed to via UFA.
3. If the AAS amount is greater than the total fee, the fee is eliminated. You cannot reduce the fee by more than the AAS bid in any given year.
If the player was on a multi-year contract and you chose to pay 50% of the contract total all in the current season, and thus have no fees applied from this player in future years, the following applies:
1. When the player is signed by the next franchise, you will take 100% of the new contract total and reduce the fee by that amount.
2. You cannot reduce the fee by more than 100%
MiLB Free Agency,Rule V Draft, and International FA
-A minor league player not on a Gopher Ball team is considered an Unrestricted Free Agent and will run through URFA and follow all URFA guidelines. The only exception to this are International Amateurs, International Professionals and players drafted and signed in the Rule IV draft in the current calendar year (Jan 1- Dec 31). These players can not be posted to UFA until the following calendar year.
Eligible minor league free agents may be offered a Minor League contract (aka Prospect Protection contract) or a Major League contract. A Minor League contract gives the player a $0.4M contract until he uses up his prospect protection (the four seasons following the year a player exceeds 50IP or 150 at bats at the major league level.
International Amateurs, International Professionals and players drafted and signed in the Rule IV draft in the current calendar year (Jan 1- Dec 31). These players can not be posted to UFA until the following calendar year are not considered free agents until the team that they are drafted & signed by declines to sign them to a contract. The deadline for this is the last day of the calendar year (12/31). Any players signed by the MLB franchise (in real life) are first allowed to be signed by their Gopherball counterpart. Any players not selected/signed by the Gopherball franchise first become eligible for bidding in the following seasons Week One UFA period.
International Professionals-Players with at least five years of professional experience (outside of MLB) that are 23 years of age or older have been considered professionals and been exempt from international bonus pools as declared by MLB. Players in this tier are allowed to be added to the roster of the gopherball franchise that the player signed with in MLB. In order to add this player to your roster, you must assume the players real life contract in its entirety. You must notify the league of this in the IFA-Draft Acquisitions thread for the correct year by 12/31 of the same year the player signed.
International Amateurs-Players eligible for an MLB franchises International Bonus Pool, generally under age 23 and less than five years of professional experience (outside of MLB). Players in this tier are allowed to be added to the roster of the gopherball franchise that the player signed with in MLB. In order to add this player to your roster, you must notify the league of this in the IFA-Draft Acquisitions thread for the correct year by 12/31 of the same year the player signed. Players in this tier assume a .4minor salary that will turn into a PP contract if they exceed the 50IP or 150 at bat threshold.
Rule IV Draftees-Players in this tier that have signed with the team that drafted them (unsigned players are not eligible to be added) are allowed to be added to the roster of the Gopherball franchise that the player signed with in MLB. In order to add this player to your roster, you must notify the league of this in the IFA-Draft Acquisitions thread for the correct year by 12/31 of the same year the player signed. Players in this tier assume a .4minor salary that will turn into a PP contract if they exceed the 50IP or 150AB threshold.
Additional Free Agency Rules
- All bids are legal and binding. You may not make a bid and then not honor it, although you are allowed to submit priority lists, i.e. if i win player x i do not want the bid for player y to count, i only want 2 players won etc.
- A player not signed to a contract with one of the 30 Major League franchises may not be announced as up-for-bid in either RFA or URFA.
-If you post a player for bidding, this does not count as a minimum bid. You must submit a bid to the mlbpa account