RULE CHANGE PROPOSALS
Voting on all rule change proposals will be open until October 1st. Majority (16) yes votes are needed to pass each proposal. Vote via PM please so I don't miss a vote in the discussion thread. Feel free to discuss either/both proposal in this discussion thread if more clarification is needed.
BAF SIGN & TRADE PROPOSAL
Once a free agent player's incumbent franchise wins a bid on the player, effectively re-signing him. That franchise would then have an initial 24hr window from the winning bid announcement time stamp, to pursue a S&T of that player with another team, if they so choose.
The incumbent franchise who's won the bid to re-sign their own player, must then notify the commissioner via PM, within the initial 24hr window of the winning the bid announcement, of their intention to S&T that player to one specific team.
That time stamped PM sent to the commissioner, would then start the clock on a secondary 24hr window to execute the S&T with the specified team.
If the trade is not consummated within the secondary 24hr window of the S&T time stamped PM that was sent to the commissioner, the re-signed player then becomes subjected to the January 15th newly signed free agent trade moratorium rule, and is no longer eligible to be moved before the aforementioned date.
TAKEAWAYS
• Team GMs can only pursue S&T scenarios for players they hold bird rights to, whom were on their roster at the end of the previous BaF season
• The ruling amendment would limit team GMs to only declare S&T intentions to the commissioner within an initial 24hr window of the winning bid announcement time stamp of the re-signed player. If the GM misses this initial 24hr window, the re-signed player is no longer eligible to be signed & traded
• The ruling amendment would also limit teams to officially pursue a S&T with one specific team, communicated to the commissioner via time stamped PM, within a secondary 24hr S&T window. This will discourage the incumbent team GM from re-signing their own player (that they don't actually want), merely to attempt to extract assets from counterpart GMs, by leveraging multiple teams against eachother during the secondary 24hr window. Limiting official S&T execution to the incumbent team and one specific team, declared to the commissioner, promotes negotiating in good faith
• Team GMs can hold preliminary unofficial S&T discussions throughout the free agency process with as many team GMs as they choose. However, once a bid is won by a team to re-sign its own player, only one specific team will be permitted to be communicated to the commissioner, via PM by the GM of the winning bid, for the official secondary 24hr S&T execution window
• The player must receive a contract of at least 3 years minimum
• S&T's can't be executed once the BaF regular season has started
• All S&T agreements are subjected to the legal terms and conditions of the salary cap constraints
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PROPOSAL TO AMEND NO TRADE CLAUSES
No trade clauses should be reserved for top of the league players who have earned that distinction.
- Proposal- To limit NTC's only to players receiving a minimum $100/year contract offer. Anyone not good enough to receive a contract of at least 10% of the salary cap should not be receiving a no trade clause.
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EXEMPT LIST
bishnykfan wrote:Reminder: Any player on the Exempt List can either have their contract frozen by their team or the team can allow a year to come off of that players contract. If a team decides to "freeze" a contract, it will simply carry over to next years roster as is. The deadline for teams to decide on their Exempt List players will be Tuesday, June 30th at midnight. Any team that does not submit a response will automatically have their EL players contract frozen and carried over to the 2020-21 season. Any questions on this process, let me know.
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THIRD/FOURTH YEAR OPTIONS
bishnykfan wrote:The following list of players are all due to have their third/fourth year options picked up/declined this offseason. The deadline for this is July 5th. Any team that does not respond will automatically decline the option year on these players.
The 1/2 next to the team name shows what round of the draft each player was originally selected in. If the player is a round 2 player, the team will need to exercise the third year option in order to hold that players Bird rights going into free agency. Also, the option will need to be picked up in order to give an extension if a team wanted to go in that route somewhere down the line.
Any player with an EL next to his name is also on the EL. Teams will need to submit their EL yes/no before they can accept/decline the option year.
PM me if you choose to pickup the third/fourth year options on these players. Deadline is Sunday, July 5th at midnight.Spoiler:
Upcoming Schedule
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Free Agency Rankings
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- Still waiting to hear from Phoenix (Jose7) regarding next season.
