Build a Franchise- Season 5 Discussion (Free Agency Edition)- Free Agency schedule on page 82

[NewEra]

Looks like all posts and updates from yesterday have been deleted..

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PMs too

[bringbackhoffa]

Luckily this didn't happen in the midst of free agency

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[Smash3]

Looks like all posts and updates from yesterday have been deleted..

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OKC front office finding out Lamarcus trade was voided:

[Deeeez Knicks]

My trade for Luka still went thru, right?

[DaGawd]

Watch on YouTube

[E-Balla]

Looks like all posts and updates from yesterday have been deleted..

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OKC front office finding out Lamarcus trade was voided:

Yeah right, I've been trying to get Hami from hoffa for months now.

[bringbackhoffa]

Looks like all posts and updates from yesterday have been deleted..

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OKC front office finding out Lamarcus trade was voided:

Luckily I only sent in 1 trade to be made official yesterday..

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[E-Balla]

First time in my whole time here we lost a day's worth of posts.

[NewEra]

Looks like all posts and updates from yesterday have been deleted..

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OKC front office finding out Lamarcus trade was voided:

Luckily I only sent in 1 trade to be made official yesterday..

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What’s the other trade?

[Buzzard]

My trade for Luka still went thru, right?

Funny

[bishnykfan]

TRANSACTION

The Oklahoma City Thunder have agreed to sign Frank Jackson for $1/1 year.

[bishnykfan]

TRADE ANNOUNCEMENT

The Charlotte Hornets have agreed to trade LaMarcus Aldridge and Hamidou Diallo to the Oklahoma City Thunder in exchange for a 2022 2nd round draft pick (From Cleveland) and a 2023 2nd round draft pick (From Cleveland).

[bishnykfan]

If you had another move made yesterday please let me know. I believe these were the only ones but with everything being deleted let me know if I missed one so everything is accurate.

[Buzzard]

I am trying to get something done peeps. What does a package of Harris and Richardson do for any of you contenders?

[Deeeez Knicks]

My trade for Luka still went thru, right?

Funny

worth a shot

[NewEra]

My trade for Luka still went thru, right?

Funny

worth a shot

Thought you secured the Luka deal before agreeing to send me Giannis. Sorry to hear it fell through.

[3toheadmelo]

Funny

worth a shot

Thought you secured the Luka deal before agreeing to send me Giannis. Sorry it hear it fell through.

He already traded Giannis to me for Dennis Schroder

[bishnykfan]

ANNOUNCEMENT

With free agency less than a week away, I wanted to clear up a few things that I have seen in the thread or via PM.

- The salary cap is $1040. However, teams can go over the "soft cap" to resign their own Bird rights FA. The "hard cap" is set at $1144. Teams who enter FA with cap space can first resign their own Bird FA and then use up whatever cap space they have remaining to sign non-Bird FA's.

For example: Team A enters FA with $920 in committed salary, three open roster spots and one Bird rights FA. They have $120 in cap space to begin FA. However, they could resign their Bird FA to a max deal $222/5 years (920+222+1+1=1144). Also, if Team A resigns their Bird rights FA to less than their max, then they could use their remaining cap space on a non-Bird FA. For instance, if team A resigns their Bird FA for $150 first, they could still bid up to $73/4 years for a non-Bird FA (920+73+150+1=1144). This would be a legal bid considering the $73 is less than the $120 the team began FA with and if successful, these bids would only bring the team to the $1144 hard cap. The 1 in the above scenarios represent the cap holds for unused roster spots. If a team resigns a Bird rights FA first, it will be announced but the terms of the deal will be held back until the team uses whatever remaining cap space they have. It is each teams responsibility to make sure that all bids are legal. Any illegal bids, i.e. a bid that puts a team over the cap, will be discarded.

- The threshold for teams to get a return PM from me will be as follows:

Bids between $1-$99 within $10 of leading bid team, will get a return PM.
Bids between $100-$199 within $20 of leading bid, team will get a return PM.
Bids between $200-$299 within $30 of leading bid, team will get a return PM.
Bids between $300-$399 within $40 of leading bid, team will get a return PM.
Bids between $400-$499 within $50 of leading bid, team will get a return PM.
Bids between $500-$599 within $60 of leading bid, team will get a return PM.

- The maximum active roster size is 15. Teams with cap space can still bid on FA's even if they are at the 15 man maximum roster size. In your PM, the team must write which of their current 15 players they are waiving, buying out, placing on the EL or trading in the contingency that their bid is the leading bid. If a team bids on multiple players that would put them over the 15 man maximum roster size, they will need to write the required number of players that they are moving off of their 15 man roster in the event that they sign those players. No bid will be considered if winning it will put the team over the 15 man maximum roster size and their is no contingency for creating the required roster space.

- Trades can still be made during FA. All teams must put into their PM subject line that they are completing a trade so the PM does not get confused with your one PM per bidding window. Teams are responsible for knowing how a trade will effect their salary cap and any bids they have on the books.

- All teams will get a return PM regarding their Bird rights FA when another team has a leading bid on them regardless of whether their bid was within the above $10+ threshold.

- I will be slightly adjusting the bidding windows for Sunday. The new schedule will be:

SUNDAY

6-7:30AM- Open bids (one PM per team)
7:30-9AM- Bids are reviewed and responded to if you're leading or within the threshold of the leading bid
9-10:30AM- Open bids (one PM per team)
10:30-12PM- Bids are reviewed and responded to if you're leading or within the threshold of the leading bid
12PM-1PM- Open bids (one PM per team)
1PM-2PM- Bids are reviewed and responded to if you're leading or within the threshold of the leading bid
2PM-3PM- Open bids (one PM per team)
3PM-4PM- Bids are reviewed and responded to if you're leading or within the threshold of the leading bid- (Leading bids from the 6AM hour that haven't been beaten will sign.
4PM-5PM- Open bids (one PM per team)
5PM-6PM- Bids are reviewed and responded to if you're leading or within the threshold of the leading bid- (Leading bids from the 8AM hour that haven't been beaten will sign.
6PM-7PM- Open bids (one PM per team)
7PM-8PM- Bids are reviewed and responded to if you're leading or within the threshold of the leading bid- (Leading bids from the 10AM hour that haven't been beaten will sign.
8PM-9PM- Open bids (one PM per team)
9PM-10PM- Bids are reviewed and responded to if you're leading or within the threshold of the leading bid- (Leading bids from the 12PM hour that haven't been beaten will sign.
10PM-11PM- Open bids (one PM per team)
11PM-12AM- Bids are reviewed and responded to if you're leading or within the threshold of the leading bid- (Leading bids from the 2PM hour that haven't been beaten will sign.

MONDAY

6-7AM- Open bids (one PM per team)
7-8AM- Bids are reviewed and responded to if you're leading or within the threshold of the leading bid- (Leading bids from the Sunday 4PM hour that haven't been beaten will sign.
8-9AM- Open bids (one PM per team)
9-10AM- Bids are reviewed and responded to if you're leading or within the threshold of the leading bid- (Leading bids from the Sunday 6PM hour that haven't been beaten will sign.
10-11AM- Open bids (one PM per team)
11AM-12PM- Bids are reviewed and responded to if you're leading or within the threshold of the leading bid- (Leading bids from the Sunday 8PM hour that haven't been beaten will sign.
12-1PM- Open bids (one PM per team)
1-2PM- Bids are reviewed and responded to if you're leading or within the threshold of the leading bid- (Leading bids from the Sunday 10PM hour that haven't been beaten will sign.
2-3PM- Open bids (one PM per team)
3-4PM- Bids are reviewed and responded to if you're leading or within the threshold of the leading bid- (Leading bids from the 6AM hour that haven't been beaten will sign.
4-5PM- Open bids (one PM per team)
5-6PM- Bids are reviewed and responded to if you're leading or within the threshold of the leading bid- (Leading bids from the 8AM hour that haven't been beaten will sign.
6-7PM- Open bids (one PM per team)
7-8PM- Bids are reviewed and responded to if you're leading or within the threshold of the leading bid- (Leading bids from the 10AM hour that haven't been beaten will sign.
8-9PM- Open bids (one PM per team)
9-10PM- Bids are reviewed and responded to if you're leading or within the threshold of the leading bid- (Leading bids from the 12PM hour that haven't been beaten will sign.
10-11PM- Open bids (one PM per team)
11-12AM- Bids are reviewed and responded to if you're leading or within the threshold of the leading bid- (Leading bids from the 2PM hour that haven't been beaten will sign.

I needed to change the first couple of bidding windows Sunday morning for a couple of reasons. Just wanted to make sure that I have enough time to get everything going with those first couple of bidding windows. Also, there is a good chance I will not be home from 9AM-10AM to be able to devote the time needed to opening FA. So, for those reasons, the first two bidding windows will be 90 minutes rather than the hour we first discussed.

- Teams can bid on multiple players per PM. The order that they are placed will determine the order that the offer gets made. If a team has $100 in cap space and 3 open roster spots they could still place the following bid:

Player A- $80/4 years
Player B- $50/2 years
Player C- $35/4 years
Player D- $22/3 years
Player E- $15/1 year
Player F- $10/4 years
Player G- $4/1 year
Player H- $1/1 year
Player I- $1/1 year
Player J- $1/3 years

If they are the leading bid on Player A, then the bids on players B, C and D would be thrown out since those bids in conjunction with the bid on player A would put the team over the salary cap. If they are then the leading bid on players E, the bid on player F would be discarded since that bid would also put them over the salary cap. If their bid to player G is not high but they have the high bid on player H, player I and J's bids would be thrown out considering they only have three open roster spots.


- A bid can not be withdrawn once it is made and the team has been told it is high. As soon as the PM is sent in to me, all bids are binding.


This all may look and sound confusing still so if anyone has any questions or concerns, please feel free to ask so we have no issues come Sunday morning.

[2010]

Player A- $80/4 years
Player B- $50/2 years
Player C- $35/4 years
Player D- $22/3 years
Player E- $15/1 year
Player F- $10/4 years
Player G- $4/1 year
Player H- $1/1 year
Player I- $1/1 year
Player J- $1/3 years

Question about this part. So the hypothetical GM with $100 in cap space could theoretically place a bid submitting an offer to every single player in free agency if they wanted to?

Then whichever they lead on stays legitimate as long as they have remaining cap, while illegitimate offers get discarded?

Seems a bit silly if I’m getting this correctly. Why not have it so your offers must add up to the amount of cap space you have? Why not force GMs to prioritize their pursuits?

[Manhattan Project]

Free agency starting?
The future of Barnes?
Tune in next week.

Spoiler: