RealGM GM a Team - Free Agency Information Thread

[skorff26]

First off, the game started on September 24; so any contract change that happened after that in real life is void in GM a Team (ex. extensions signed by RFA Jason Maxiell and others, extension by UFA Jeff Foster, and Team Options on rookie contracts that were picked up an example is Rondo and Maurice Ager); alot of players had their team options accepted before the deadline like oden and horford; but those that didn't will have to have their options picked up.

Also decisions on Player Options and Early Termination Options will be decided shortly and posted on this thread.

I have asked bcortell to be in charge of Team Options and finding out if teams are extending qualifying offers to their Restricted Free Agents (If you extend a Qualifying Offer you can match any contract that is offered to that player (an example is the Josh Smith contract from last season); but the player can also choose to take a one year salary equal to the Qualifying Offer amount and become an unrestricted free agent in the next offseason (an example was Ben Gordon from last season)if the Qualifying Offer is extended to him.)

Also, a new post draft roster thread where 2009 team salaries are to be calculated
viewtopic.php?f=340&t=880908&p=18584884#p18584884

Any questions, e-mail me at skorf26@yahoo.com

[bcortell]

****ATTENTION ALL****

The following lists are for players with Team Options and Restricted Free Agents. If one of your players is on here you need to email me if you are picking up the Team Option or extending the qualifying offer. If you believe you have a player that is not on the list but should be, just send me an email. bcortell@yahoo.com

Team Options
Boston - Rajon Rondo (TO Picked up)
Charlotte - Corey Brewer (TO Picked up)
Chicago - Josh Boone
Dallas - Adam Morrison (TO NOT Picked up), Jared Dudley (TO Picked up), Tyrus Thomas (TO Picked up), Joakim Noah (TO Picked up)
Denver - Mardy Collins (TO Picked up), Sean Singletary (TO Picked up)
Detroit - Rodney Carney (TO NOT Picked up), Mikki Moore (TO NOT Picked up)
Golden State - Ronnie Brewer (TO Picked up), Brandan Wright (TO Picked up), Will Bynum (TO Picked up)
Memphis - Jarvis Hayes (TO Picked up), Ian Mahinmi (TO Picked up)
Minnesota - Maurice Ager (TO NOT Picked up), Randy Foye (TO Picked up)
New Jersey - Jeff Green (TO picked up), Yi Jianlian (TO picked up), Kyrylo Fesenko (TO picked up)
New York - Wilson Chandler (TO picked up), Thabo Sefolosha (TO picked up)
OKC- Kevin Durant (TO Picked up), Daquan Cook (TO Picked up), JJ Reddick (TO Picked up)
Portland - Renaldo Balkman (TO Picked up), Marquis Daniels (TO Picked up), Louis Amundson (TO NOT Picked up)
Sacramento - Nick Young (TO Picked up), Quincy Douby (TO NOT Picked up)
San Antonio - Marcus Williams (TO Picked up), Sean Williams (TO Picked up)
Utah - Marco Bellineli (TO Picked up)
Washington - Oleksiy Pecherov (TO NOT Picked up)

Restricted Free Agents
Atlanta - Josh Childress (QO Extended), David Lee (QO Extended), Jeremy Richardson (QO NOT Extended)
Boston - Glen Davis (QO Extended), Leon Powe (QO Extended)
Charlotte - Rashad McCants (NOT Extended), Ike Diogu (NOT Extended)
Chicago - Joel Anthony
Dallas - Aaron Gray (QO Extended)
Detroit - Andrew Bynum (QO Extended)
Golden State - Sean May (NOT Extended), Ryan Hollins (QO Extended), Francisco Garcia (QO Extended)
Houston - Jarret Jack
Indiana - Josh McRoberts (QO Extended), Hakim Warrick (QO Extended), Danny Granger (QO Extended)
LA Clippers - Charlie Vilaneuva (QO Extended)
Memphis - Ramon Sessions (QO Extended)
Miami- Jason Maxiell
Milwaukee- Walter Hermann
New Jersey - Channing Frye, Martell Webster
New York - Raymond Felton (QO Extended), Johan Petro (QO Extended), Nate Robinson (QO Extended)
Orlando - Solomon Jones
Philadelphia - Linas Kleiza (QO Extended)
Phoenix - CJ Watson (QO Extended)
Portland - Marcin Gortat (QO Extended)
Sacromento- Bobby Brown (QO Extended)
Toronto - Carlos Delfino (QO Extended), Jamario Moon (QO Extended), Will Solomon (QO Extended)
Utah - Luther Head (QO NOT Extended), Joey Graham(QO NOT Extended), Paul Millsap (QO Extended)
Washington - Marvin Williams (QO Extended)

[skorff26]

Players that are accepting their player options for 2009 and will be back with their teams
Boston - Eddie House
Charlotte - Malik Allen
Cleveland - Jermaine O'Neal
Dallas - Devean George (waived counts against salary)
Denver - Ricky Davis
Detroit - Al Harrington
Indiana - Francisco Elson, Anthony Johnson
Memphis - Travis Deiner
Miami - Chris Quinn, Yakhouba Diawara
Milwaukee - Royal Ivey
Minnesota - Kwame Brown, Brian Cook
New Jersey - Mike James
New Orleans - Devin Brown
New York - Jerome James (waived counts against salary)
Phoenix - Brian Skinner

Players NOT accepting their player options and are becoming free agents.
Sacramento - Bobby Brown - His agent is reported as saying that Bobby Brown wants to stay in Sacramento but he feels that he has played well enough to earn a pay increase

Washington - Michael Finley - Michael Finley has told the press that he only has a few years left in him, and he wants to join a team that is a title contender and he feels that washington is a few years away.

Phoenix - Carlos Boozer - Carlos has stated that he loves Phoenix and hopes that him and the suns can work out a deal; but he feels that he is one of the best players available in free agency and with a lot of teams with cap space; he wants to get a big long-term deal.

Toronto - Anderson Varejao - Anderson has decided to decline his option last minute; he thinks he can get a long term deal with more money this summer. He is on record as saying that he really likes it in Toronto and is hoping that a long-term deal can be reached

[skorff26]

Players that are NOT terminating their contracts and will be back with their teams for the 2009 season
Charlotte - Steven Hunter (waived, counts against salary), Damien Wilkins
Cleveland - Quentin Richardson
Denver - Zydrunas Illgauskus
Detroit - Marc Blount
Indiana - Jamal Crawford
Los Angeles Lakers - Kobe Bryant
Milwaukee - Eddy Curry
New Orleans - Trenton Hassell
New York - Etan Thomas
Utah - Kyle Korver, Mehmet Okur

Players that are terminating their contracts and will be free agents
Indiana - Hedo Turkoglu - Hedo's agent has expressed that his client is happy with the Indiana Pacers franchise, but he wants to have job security through a long-term deal.

[Garmfay]

Why the hell can't I extend my TOs to Durant, Cook and Redick? What do you mean 09-10 off-season?

[bcortell]

Guys- Skorff supplied me with a list of RFA and guys with TO's. I didn't check the list beforehand, but it looks like he is a year ahead of time. In our game, we just finished simulating the 08-09 season. Many of the guys on the list have contracts that run through 09-10 and then become RFA. That is why I am saying hold off. (I am correct with this, right?) So I encourage everyone to check the players on their roster and see who is a RFA (or has a Team Option) and when.

Garmfay, check your email

[skorff26]

Why the hell can't I extend my TOs to Durant, Cook and Redick? What do you mean 09-10 off-season?

All you have to do is pick up their team options for 2009-2010. They have been picked up in real life but AFTER the date we started our game.

Here it is for Durant from the transactions page
Oct 16, 2008

The Oklahoma City Thunder exercised the 2009-10 contract options on forward Jeff Green and guard-forward Kevin Durant.
Since it happened on October 16 and the game started on September 24; Durant did not have his team option picked up for next season yet; so just to clarify, all you have to do is pick up his option because when we had started the game Oklahoma City had not picked it up yet.

[bcortell]

Why the hell can't I extend my TOs to Durant, Cook and Redick? What do you mean 09-10 off-season?

All you have to do is pick up their team options for 2009-2010. They have been picked up in real life but AFTER the date we started our game.

Here it is for Durant from the transactions page
Oct 16, 2008

The Oklahoma City Thunder exercised the 2009-10 contract options on forward Jeff Green and guard-forward Kevin Durant.
Since it happened on October 16 and the game started on September 24; Durant did not have his team option picked up for next season yet; so just to clarify, all you have to do is pick up his option because when we had started the game Oklahoma City had not picked it up yet.

Don't worry about this skorff. It's all taken care of.

[bcortell]

Alright guys, I want to reiterate this- if you look on Shamsports, a lot of these guys don't have Team Options til 2010. That's because their respective teams have already picked up the option for this upcoming season. Skorff went through all the transactions and found out which teams did this after we started the game. So the list is correct and email away with all your decisions. bcortell@yahoo.com

Thanks for being patient.

[skorff26]

The salary cap will be set at 61,900,000. I got this number since the 2007-2008 salary cap was 55.63 million; 2008-2009 is 58.68 million; thus it increased 5.48% and a 5.48 % increase from 2008-2009 sets the cap at 61.90 million.
Each team over the salary cap gets a mid level exception and it will be 5.819 million dollars; I used the same principle 5.36 in 07-08; 5.585 in 08-09; a 4.2% increase which sets it at 5.819 million
Each team also gets a bi-annual exception of 1.99 million; I got this number from this website(#19)
http://members.cox.net/lmcoon/salarycap.htm#Q1

Hopefully I got my math right

Also I will be contacting every team about which unrestricted free agents and that they want to retain their bird rights to. Since there are several categories for capholds
http://members.cox.net/lmcoon/salarycap.htm#Q30
I think that every UFA will receive a cap hold of 1.5 x previous salary (to avoid confusion); a team can renounce the bird rights and the cap hold will disappear. If you keep the players bird rights; then a team can exceed the salary cap to resign that player. I hopefully will start sending out e-mails to teams later today.

[skorff26]

Also if any GM would like to GM a second team let me know; currently San Antonio, Philadelphia, and Atlanta do not have GM's

e-mail me at skorf26@yahoo.com if you are interested

[roc]

FYI - Walter Herrmann is not a RFA for Detroit. He was traded to the the Bucks along with Rip/Tay for Bogut/Ridnour/Gadz. I have no idea what team he belongs to ATM though.

[skorff26]

Wednesday at 8:00 A.M. est, you can start to send me offers for your own free agents.

Thursday at 8:00 A.M. est, you can send offers for any free agents,
also
1) any team options that haven't been picked up or declined will automatically be picked up for that GM
2) any qualifying offers that haven't been picked up or declined will automatically be picked up for that GM

all offers can be sent to skorf26@yahoo.com

[roc]

So if I want to sign Bynum to a long term deal I have to decline picking up his QO? I mos def will not be picking him up at the QO to let hm be unrestricted in 2010. I want him long term, now

I would also have to assume that if my offer to sign him is less than another team's that I have time to match that offer due to his restricted status.

[skflives]

^^^^ If you do not make the QO you will not be able to match any offer made to Bynum. Without a qualifying offer the player goes from being a RFA to an UFA. You don't want to leave yourself open to losing Bynum.

[roc]

For some reason I thought a QO was the amount it took to keep them for that last year if the player wouldn't except a new contract.

However it works for me to keep him restricted is what I want.

[skflives]

Don't worry. I know how much you would hate to lose Bynum and won't let such a silly misunderstanding kill your chances of keeping him.

[skorff26]

Also Max contracts
Players with (1-6 years of experience) is 25% of the cap so 15,475,000 for the first season
Players with (7-9 years of experience) is 30% of the cap so 18,570,000 for the first season
Players with (10+ years of experience) is 35% of the cap so 21,665,000 for the first season
Got that information from here http://members.cox.net/lmcoon/salarycap.htm#Q11

-Also you can offer another teams player up to an 8% raise per season, and a team can offer their own player up to a 10.5% raise per season.

Also, you can start sending in your offers for your own free agents now send offers to skorf26@yahoo.com (I am at work until about 5 today, so I will respond when I get home to the available offers)

[skorff26]

A few guidelines to follow, when sending an offer to a free agent please include
1. the salary that is being offered
2. approximately how many minutes a player will play per game
3. a brief reason why a player would be a good fit for your team

Also if you would like to offer a contract to free agents list them in order that you would want them, a quick example.
Offering the MLE to
1. Carlos Boozer (with reasons to sign for all free agents)
2. Danny Granger
3. Marvin Williams
4. Andrew Bynum
5. Rasheed Wallace
6. Shawn Marion
7. Ron Artest
8. Paul Millsap
a few more
15. 3 million a year to Matt Barnes
16. 4 million a year to Charlie Vilanueva

-Maybe other teams had better offers for the first 15 of your offers, but than you sign the 16th best FA for your team in Vilanueva; this way teams can get a player they want more rather than waiting to see if a free agent picks your offer and then if it isn't picked realize your second choice has already been signed somewhere else.

[SamBone]

does it matter how many years are offered?