OLD Free Agent Rules

[Golden State Warriors (Caleb)]

Basic Rules

• The money should be the amount per year
• Max amount of years you can sign a player is 5 years.
  
• Bid must stand for 24 hours. 
  
• Minimum for a player is .25M /Minimum increase a bid is .25M
• Expiring contracts may NOT be dealt once playoffs start
• Retiring player is a free drop
• NO RETRACTING BIDS
  
• If you are dropping a player in a bid you must list the player.

If you drop a player you must pay 50% of his contract the rest of that year, and 25% the following year.

Each team is allowed one resign per off-season.  In order to resign a player you must pay him whatever he averaged fantasy points wise X (.60).  If a player did not play at least 15 games he will cost what he averaged the previous season. This way only guys you really want to keep will be resigned and free agency is competitive.  A resign can be anywhere from 1-5 years and of course if the player is over 9 mill he must be signed for at least three years.

Qualifying Offers- For players with QO's they will either be resigned or they will be bid on in a silent auction and the owner will be given a choice rather to match the offer given in the silent auction or let his player walk. Matching this offer does NOT count as a resign.

Players signed for more than 10 mill or more must be signed for 3 years or longer.

Eventually all players will be on contracts from in here, but as we take real life contracts at the start of the league here are what the certain options mean.
Player Options must be picked up by the end of the NBA playoffs of the season before, if not they are a FA. (They will be FA 99% of the time)
Early Termination will be free agents.
Team Options can be picked up by the team, but the deadline is right before we transition into the off-season period, which is when the NBA playoffs end. 
Non Guaranteed similar to team options.  You must choose to either guarantee this money or let the player walk. Must let player know by end of NBA playoffs. 

In BasketballDynasty25 we allowed players to take on the real life contracts if they re-signed.  That will no longer be carried out as we are trying to create our own league and contracts.  

Restricted free agent rights cannot be traded. 

If a player does not receive a restricted free agent offer they will play out a one year tender at their fantasy points X .5

[Golden State Warriors (Caleb)]

I forgot to put this in the rules but if a player signs a minimum contract (.25 mill) he can dropped for free. Anything over that the cap hit still applies

[New Orleans Pelicans (Alex)]

Quick Question regarding droping players: Is it in anyway time sensitive? Aka can players be cut past the trading deadline for example? Secondly if there is no deadline how are cap hits calculated? If Team A drops Player X 2 days before the season ends, does he now have to pay his contract for the remaining 2 days for 50% and after that for 25% for the next season?

[Golden State Warriors (Caleb)]

Once playoffs start no more drops. Yup, a drop two days before the playoffs would still count as this being the first year.

[New Orleans Pelicans (Alex)]

I assume Free Agency and D-League movement is also not allowed during Playoffs?

[Chicago Bulls (Charlie)]

Bump.

[Chicago Bulls (Charlie)]

When you bid: if you drafted a rookie, ESPECIALLY IN THE LOTTO-

Their contract will eventually count against your cap. Please keep in mind when bidding. IE- Last year, Barrett went 3 overall, he got 8M. If you selected the rook who went 3 IRL overall here, they will make 8M. THAT CONTRACT COUNTS RIGHT NOW WHEN BIDDING EVEN THOUGH ITS NOT ON YOUR CAP CURRENTLY. 

Also, if you bid over cap or over roster spots, you get 1 warning. 2nd time, some type of punishment is going down. Don't be a baffoon lmfao