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If you are not picking up a TO or QO of a player on your team you must post in this thread by Sunday.

Obviously tier one free agency is a big deal in this game, so I've decided that we need to devote special attention to it to ensure that it gets done right. For those of you in the running for Deron Williams, Chris Paul and Dwight Howard this is what will happen:

1. You will send all of your offers in until Sunday at midnight EST. I will then forward those offers to two other GMs and the three of us will vote where we think each player will end up.
2. There will be sign and trades allowed, but there are no guarantees that they are likely to happen even if you work out an offer. For a sign and trade BOTH teams must send a pitch as to why they think X player would accept their offer.
3. Players have a good chance at resigning with their own teams; this is not a guarantee however, we want the bidding to be competitive.
4. When sending an offer all salaries must be clearly stated and structured along with your team's depth chart and why X player fits well. The following is an example of what we are looking for

Title: Dwight Howard, New England Patriots

Why Dwight should sign with us (please be more detailed than me): Dwight would fit well in our uptempo offense that spreads the floor very well and has competent passing, shooting and defense at every position.
Our depth chart:
Howard 34/Pachulia 14
Aldridge 34/Collison 14
Prince 32/Weems 16
Martin 34/Brewer 14
Kidd 30/Maynor 18

Dwight's Salary (obviously, please use real numbers)
Year 1: $xx,000,000
Year 2: $xx,000,000
Year 3: $xx,000,000

Example of an offer involving a sign and trade:
Title: Dallas Mavericks S+T, Deron Williams

Why Deron should S+T: The Dallas Mavericks would be extremely happy to offer Deron Williams the chance to play in his home city along with the best power forward in the game.
etc. (all same as previouse)

Title: New Jersey S+T, Deron Williams

Why Deron should sign and trade: so he can end up on a better team than the ones with poor depth and not leave a bitter taste in New Jersey fans' mouths.
(rest is the same as above).

ALL OFFERS INCLUDING SIGN AND TRADE ARE TO BE SENT TO ME ON SUNDAY. PLAYERS WILL CHOOSE THEIR TEAMS ON MONDAY.

Free Agents - Please notify if you see any mistakes, I think I have everyone accounted for but need to go through the last free agency thread to verify.

Tier One Unresitricted - Sunday: gmateamcommish@yahoo.com
Dwight Howard - Signed
Deron Williams - Signed
Chris Paul - Signed

Tier 1.5 Unrestricted - CLOSED: gmateamcommish@yahoo.com
Allen, Ray - Signed
Camby, Marcus - Signed (not posted)
Felton, Raymond - Signed
Garnett, Kevin - Signed
Hinrich, Kirk - Signed
Jamison, Antawn - Signed
Kaman, Chris - Signed
Kidd, Jason - Resigned
Miller, Andre - Resigned
Nash, Steve - Signed
Nelson, Jameer - Resigned
Terry, Jason - Signed
Wallace, Gerald - Resigned

Tier Two Unrestricted: Wednesday through Friday: g-hill1@hotmail.com
Arenas, Gilbert - Signed
Bass, Brandon - Signed
Barnes, Matt - Signed
Biendrins, Andris - Signed
Childress, Josh
Delfino, Carlos - Signed
Diaw, Boris - Signed
Dragic, Goran - Signed
Illyasova, Ersan - Signed
Jones, James
Reddick, JJ
Pietruise, Michael
Sessions, Ramon - Signed
Turiaf, Ronnie - Signed
Tolliver, Anthony - Signed
West, Dolonte - Signed

Tier Three Unrestricted: Friday through Sunday: gmateamcommish@yahoo.com
Alabi, Solomon
Aumundson, Louis
Barron, Earl
Barbosa, Leandro
Bell, Charlie
Bogans, Keith
Cardinal, Brian
Cook, Brian
Evans, Reggie
Evans, Jeremy
Graham, Joey
Graham, Stephan
Greene, Donte
Dooling, Keyon
Haddadi, Hamed
House, Eddie
Hollins, Ryan
Jeffries, Jared
Jones, Dahntay
Mahimni, Ian - Signed
McDyess, Antonio
Mbenga, DJ
Najera, Eduardo
Nocioni, Andris
Okur, Mehmet
O'neill, Jermaine
Pargo, Jannero
Posey, James
Price, Ronnie
Price, AJ
Pondexter, Quincy
Radmonavic, Vlad
Stevenson, DeShawn
Thomas, Kurt
Wallace, Ben
Warren, Willie
Webster, Martell

Restricted: Monday through Friday; send all offers to joebernabe@yahoo.com
Anderson, David
Anderson, Ryan signed matched
Arthur, Darrell signed and traded
Asik, Omer signed matched
Augustin, DJ signed
Batum, Nic S/T
Bayless, Jarryd resigned
Beasley, Michael signed and traded.
Caracter, Derrick
Ebanks, Devin
Erden, Semih resigned
Fernandez, Rudy signed
Fields, Landry signed matched
Gallinari, Danillo signed
Gee, Alonzo
Gordon, Eric signed and traded
Green, Daniel
Harangody, Luke
Harris, Manny
Hibbert, Roy Signed and matched
Hickson, JJ
Hill, George
Johnson, Armon
Koufos, Kosta
Lee, Courtney
Lin, Jeremy
Lopez, Brook Re Signed
Lopez, Robin Signed
Love, Kevin Signed
McGee, Javale
Meeks, Jodie Signed not confirmed
OJ, Mayo Signed not confirmed
Price, A.J.
Randolph, Anthony resigned
Rolle, Magnum
Rose, Derrick re signed
Rush, Brandon signed
Smith, Ish
Speights, Marreese
Stephanson, Lance
Thompson, Jason signed and matched
Walker, Bill Signed
Westbrook, Russell signed
White, DJ
White, Terrico
Young, Sam

Sunday: Tier One Free Agents Receive Offers
Already sent an email outlining what I want to see.

Monday: Tier One decides, Restricted Free Agency begins along with tier 1.5.
Tuesday: Tier 1.5 continues, Restricted Free Agency Continues
Wednesday: Close of Tier 1.5, opening of tier 2.
Thursday: Tier two free agency continues (along with any players left from 1.5), Restricted free agency continues.
Friday: Tier two free agency concludes, Restricted free agency concludes, Tier three begins.
Saturday: Tier three continues.
Sunday: all free agency closes.

Salary Information
Signing my own free agents?
You are allowed the usual 10.5% raises and may offer a maximum of 5 years.

Signing another team's free agents?
You are allowed 8% raises, may offer for a maximum of 4 years, and if you are over the salary cap and below the hard cap have an MLE of $4.6 million.

I want to sign a player for the max, what is it?
1-4 Year players: $13,000,000
5-8 Year Players: $16,000,000
9+ Year Players: $18,000,000
No player may earn more than $20,000,000 in one year, you may have 8% raises for a player up to the cap of $20 million if you are signing another team's free agent, or 10.5% raises if it is your own free agent.

What is the minimum?
Rookie (what second round picks will sign for): $380,000
Veteran: $800,000

I want to sign a second round draft pick or an undrafted rookie, what can I offer?
1 year: $380,000
2 years: $380,000 (1st year) /// $418,000 (2nd year)
3 years: $380,000 (1st) /// $418,000 (2nd) /// $800,000 (3rd)
The first year will be fully guarenteed for the purposes of this game once the "season" starts (immediately after free agency). The next years may also be fully unguarenteed, but also become guarenteed once the season commences.

If a rookie becomes a free agent because a team renounces his rights he may be signed for any amount, but it is very unlikely that that will happen during the course of this game.

What is the MLE and the BAE?
MLE: $4,600,000
BAE: $2,000,000
Raises work the same as any other contract.

What is the rookie scale?
http://www.shamsports.com/content/pages ... pholds.jsp

Questions about Bird Rights?

26. How long must a player be with one team before the Larry Bird exception can be used?

The basic idea is that a player must play for the same team for three seasons for his team to gain Bird rights (two seasons for Early Bird rights). It can be a single three-year contract, a series of three one-year contracts, or any combination that adds up to three seasons (two for Early Bird). However there are a number of complications:

When a player is traded, his new team inherits his Bird rights. For example, if a player signs a three-year contract, plays two and a half seasons with that team, and is traded at the trade deadline in the third season, then his new team owns full Bird rights following the third season.
The player must complete his contract immediately prior to becoming a free agent, which essentially means he can't have been waived. If he signs a series of contracts, then this only applies to the last contract. If a team signs a player and waives him after one game, signs and waives him after one game again the next year, and in the third year signs him and keeps him the entire season, then they will have full Bird rights following the third season.
The clock resets when the player changes teams by signing as a free agent. An interesting case occurred in the 2008-09 season with Antonio McDyess, who had played exclusively for the Pistons since the 2004-05 season. In 2008-09 the Pistons traded him to the Nuggets, the Nuggets waived him, and he re-signed with the Pistons. Even though he only signed contracts with the Pistons and he completed his last contract without being waived, his Bird clock reset when he re-signed with the Pistons because he changed teams as a free agent.
The first season of the three-year tenure doesn't have to be a full season. If a player is waived and signs with another team in year one, then plays with his new team for two additional seasons, his new team will have full Bird rights following the third season.
If a player is waived and is claimed by another team before he clears waivers, then his Bird clock resets.
If a player is selected in an expansion draft, then his Bird clock resets.
10-Day contracts (see question number 68) don't count toward Bird rights.
If a team renounces a player (see question number 34), they can't use the Bird exception to re-sign him for one year.

Toronto does not pick up the TO on Solomon Alabi.

Dallas will be retaining bird rights on free agents Jason Kidd and DeShawn Stevenson, hoping to re-sign both.

Jason Collins & Rasual Butler return to the free agent pool as we have no rights on them.

We await Jameer Nelson's decision on his player option but hope to re-sign him or offer him an extension in either scenario.

Philadelphia will allow free agents Zabian Dowdell, Al Thornton, Julian Wright & Chris Wilcox to return to the FA pool.

We will exercise team options on all our rookies, and Andrew Bynum.

We will extend a qualifying offer to Jodie Meeks, restricted free agent.

Hornets will...

-Decline TO on Andris Beidrins, making him an UFA
-Decline TO on Quincy Pondexter, making him an UFA
-Waive the QO of Donte Greene, changing him from a RFA to an UFA

Bobcats will...

-Waive Bird Rights of Mickeal Pietrus
-Waive Bird Rights of Edurdo Najera
-Extend QO to George Hill
-Accept TO of Terrance Williams, keeping him a Bobcat
-Accept TO of Larry Sanders, keeping him a Bobcat
-Accept TO of Gerlad Henderson, keeping him a Bobcat

The Clippers will waive cap holds of all UFAs, accept TO of Damion James, and extend QO to Landry Fields

Memphis will Decline TO for Mehmt Okur
Extend QO to OJ Mayo
Extend QO to Sam Yound
Accept team option to Xavier Henry
Accept team option to Greivis Vasquez

Washington offers JaVale McGee a QO (missing from your list)

The commish confirmed that Gerald Wallace will pick up his PO for the next season. He won't be a FA in this class.

Golden State makes a qualifying offer to Kevin Love and Jeremy Lin, and picks up the team options on Al-Farouq Aminu, Omri Casspi, Ekpe Udoh, and James Harden.

Golden State waives the cap holds on unrestricted free agents Louis Amundson, Hamed Haddadi, and Charlie Bell. Especially Bell.

Dan Verze wrote:The commish confirmed that Gerald Wallace will pick up his PO for the next season. He won't be a FA in this class.

No I didn't. I said "most likely," as in "I don't think he'll make more money so he might opt in, but it's up to the panel to decide."

Actually, this is what I said:

I think it is likely he does.

Q0 extended to Jason Thompson, JErryd Bayless, and Tyler Honeycutt.
Retain Bird Rights to Steve Nash and Lou Williams
Hope Lou WIlliams will not exercise ETO.

I believe we have 27 GMs, so the target for each player will be 40% of all GMs (11) voting for a player to opt out. Also, just because a player opts out does not mean they won't resign. In many cases, I feel that the home team has an advantage in the signings.

Timberwolves extend the QO to Eric Gordon.

Cleveland extends QO's to Manny Harris, Jeremy Evans and Samardo Samuels.

Detroit

TO:
We pick up team option on Monroe, James Anderson and Kwame Brown.

QO:
Decline to offer QO to Terrico white.

Birds Rights:
We hold on to Kirk Hinrich birds rights as we're looking to resign him.

Orlando:

Magic exercises Team Options on Derrick Favors, DeMarcus Cousins and Rashard Lewis keeping them all in our team.

Also, we agree to offer QO for Ryan Anderson.

babyjax13 wrote:

Dan Verze wrote:The commish confirmed that Gerald Wallace will pick up his PO for the next season. He won't be a FA in this class.

No I didn't. I said "most likely," as in "I don't think he'll make more money so he might opt in, but it's up to the panel to decide."

Actually, this is what I said:

I think it is likely he does.

Yes you are right.


Sry.

It's not a problem. Reading my post I sounded like a bit of a jerk, apologies if I came across wrong. I also have to admit I am shocked to see that so many people think he would opt out, I don't think he'll make anywhere near 9.5 million (or whatever he was owed), but I could be wrong.