Here's the unofficial official rules.
Rules
1.) All rosters must be completely up-to-date before trades will be approved. See roster thread for more details regarding what must be included in your roster post.
2.) Trades will be approved right away as long as they meet all roster/CBA requirements.
3.) I reserve the right to veto trades as league manager should I feel the trade is collaboration.
4.) Should I veto a trade, if three people (not those involved) e-mail me to reconsider my opinion I’ll get an independent observer to make a decision regarding the trade.
5a.) Money will not be in play this game.
6a.) Salary cap is set at 60 million, luxury tax is set at 75 million, and the hard tax is set at 90 million.
6b.) Teams already over the hard cap can only receive less salary in trade until they are below the cap.
7.) Free agent contract limitations will be based on the CBA.
8.) Teams must spend at least 75% of the cap during the “regular season.”
9.) Draft order will be based on submitted rankings and then the draft order will be done through the RealGM Lottery Simulator.
10.) Final game rankings will be based on how much your team has progressed from beginning to the end.
11a.) You may only trade picks four years in advance (i.e. up until 2017).
11b.) There are no restrictions on picks traded.
11c.) All trades should state clearly protections involved.
11d.) All protections must be listed on picks, even future picks.
12.) In order to be crowned winner, full write-ups and rankings must be submitted.
13a.) Failure to give me proper notice that you need a replacement will result in a suspension from these games for one game after this one.
13b.) It's up to the commish of the next game to enforce this rule.
14.) I reserve the right, as commish, to add rules as I deem fit to protect the integrity of the game.
Trades
1.) This thread is for trades ONLY, do not clutter this up with discussions.
2.) All trades must be numbered.
3.) Make sure your roster is up to date before posting trade, otherwise trades will not be approved.
4.) All sides must agree to the trade within 24 hours or it needs to be reposted.
5.) All salaries must be listed and all math shown to fall within 150% or 5 million (whichever is lesser) for non-tax paying teams or 125% + $100,000 for tax paying teams.
6a.) I reserve the right, as commish, to nix any trade that I deem to break the "spirit of the game".
6b.) My veto can be temporarily suspended when 3 posters (does not include any involved) e-mail me asking me to review the veto.
6c.) In the event that a suspension of a veto occurs, I'll contact a veteran poster (like roc, TMAC, or someone of the like) to make the final decision on the trade, which will stand.
7.) Once roster limits will go into effect during the “regular season”, roster must stay within 12-to-15 roster limit.
8.) All approved trades will be posted in the ‘Trade Approval’ thread.
If you can't follow these very simple rules, you run the risk of being removed as GM. No questions asked.
Here's the unofficial official schedule fwiw.
Day X: Sign Ups Open
Day 1: Sign Ups Close
Day 1: Teams Announce
Day 1: Trading Opens
Day 3: Rosters Must Be Complete
Day 14: Trade Deadline (NOON EST)
Day 15: Rosters Updated (NOON EST)
Day 16: Rankings Due (NOON EST)
Day 17: Draft Order Announced (NOON EST)
Day 18: Draft Begins
Day 19: Draft Ends
Day 20: FA Tier 1 Opens (NOON EST)
Day 21: FA Tier 1 Closes (11:59 A.M. EST)
Day 21: FA Tier 1 Announcement (NOON EST)
Day 21: FA Tier 2 Opens (NOON EST)
Day 22: FA Tier 2 Closes (11:59 A.M. EST)
Day 22: FA Tier 2 Announcement (NOON EST)
Day 22: FA Tier 3 Opens (NOON EST)
Day 24: FA Tier 3 Closes (11:59 A.M. EST)
Day 24: FA Tier 3 Announcement (NOON EST)
Day 24 FA Tier 4 Opens (NOON EST)
Day 25: FA Tier 4 Closes (11:59 A.M. EST)
Day 25: FA Tier 4 Announcement (NOON EST)
Day 25: FA Tier 5 Opens (NOON EST)
Day 26: FA Tier 5 Closes (NOON EST)
Day 27: Bidding Begins
Day 30: FA "Closes"
Day 37: Trading Deadline (NOON EST)
Day 39: Rosters Updated (NOON EST)
Day 39: Write-Ups Due (NOON EST)
Day 40: Rankings Due (NOON EST)
BLACK LISTED
Dan Verze
why22
Bee-Fense
Winsome Gerbil
Anyone on this list is ineligible to sign up for this game.
NEW SIGN UP RULES
1.) 250 posts is the minimum post count you must have to play. If you're just short, start posting elsewhere.
2.) Once we have 30 people sign up, I'll have a 24 hour grace period to allow any "late" sign ups.
3.) I'm assigning GMs based on merit, so if you've played in many games before you're almost assured of a spot. Sorry, it's nothing personal it just has been clear to me that the quality of GMs seem to have gone.
4.) After that 24 hour grace period, I'll assign teams and you may begin trading then.
Sign Up Format
Username:
E-mail:
AIM:
Preference #1:
Preference #2:
Preference #3:
I, (insert username), have read over and agree to follow the rules of the game.
Now that we've got all the paper work out of the way, time to officially open up the sign ups.
As commish of the last game, Biz Gilwalker gets the first dibs on team and he has selected Oklahoma City Thunder. The winner of this past game (and last I checked it was pretty darn close between lukekarts and myself) gets second dibs. After that, get your preferences in.
