Roster Limitations You can have a Max of 15 players, storing 3 players on your IR. If a player's out for only 3-4 games, I won't replace him with an IR player unless I'm otherwise told to. If a guy has a serious injury and will miss double digit games, I will try my best to select the best player from your IR to replace him. Free Agency Free agency consists of 5 rounds and occurs before "training camp". This will be our first action in this sim because there is still a free agent pool left to be signed. Teams over the cap will have 4 options for signing a player... *1.2M Exception - This is just a 1.2M for 1 year contract. *4.5M Exception - 4.5M for 1 year *Minimum Contract - The most this deal will be is 1M for a veteran, you shouldn't expect to get an impact player with just minimum contract, this is a good offer for roster fillers during the regular season. *Maximum Contract - This really only impacts teams with capspace that can offer bigger deals. It's a 6 year deal with % increments. http://www.angelfire.com/tx4/anthrax1280/FA_pos.htm This link are the available free agents, once I have some webspace to upload the full page, you can sort this list by whatever your needs are. You could conceivably offer every player on that list a contract, but I wouldn't recommend it... For people familiar with Haven's league, we'll run free agent bidding in the same manner. The only difference is EVERYONE can offer a deal, we dont have to worry about the top 3 bids. You could either e-mail me your offers or show up in chat for when we run free agency and let me know what you want to offer to who. Basically all you need to tell me is... X player - 4.5M Exception, 1.2M Exception, or Minimum Contract If you have capspace, you can be a little more specific in your offer and let me know amount with years and maybe % increases per year. http://www.angelfire.com/tx4/anthrax1280/salaryneeds.htm This is the list of teams and their cap situations, only a few teams have the freedom to offer these FA's big bucks, but I wouldn't suggest that since most of these FA's suck. Once the page is up, you'll also see how many players you have, you can not have more than 15 players at any time. So don't try to sign 4 guys when you have a roster of 13 and expect to keep everyone. Rosters and Gameplans This is what I would like for everyone to post in the roster thread. A depth chart that goes 3 deep in every position 3 "Offensive Key Players" Pace Trap Frequency Press Frequency and Offense Focus Example for the Celtics: Anderson/Palacio/Herren Forte/Johnson/Brown Pierce/Johnson/Brown Walker/Potapenko/Blount Battie/Blount/Potapenko Offensive Key Players: 1-Pierce 2-Walker 3-Forte Pace: (Very Slow, Slow, Normal, Fast, Very Fast) Normal Trap Frequency: (Never, Sometimes, Normal, Often, Always) Always Press Frequency: (Never, Sometimes, Normal, Often, Always) Normal Offense Focus: (Inside, Balanced, Outside) Balanced Once the page is loaded, you will all have access to ratings and can figure out what strategy best fits your team. Ratings The game will letter ratings for every player on your team. I trust you guys can figure out what Ht and Wt mean, here are some other ratings. In - Inside Game Out - Outside Game Hn - Ball Handling Df - Defense Reb - Rebounding Pot - Potential Some of the players ratings are not very accurate, and instead of looking up every player, I'm asking that you all look at your own players and let me know what ratings you'd like to contest. Keep in mind that I enter Numerical ratings that are then shown as Alpha ratings. So a guy could have an 89 in Potential, and be shown as a B+, which might not look nearly as good as an 89. Trades Trades work the same way in this league as they did in Cat's league, keep in mind that both SF3 and I have the game and can check if a trade works salary wise fairly easily, so don't be afraid to ask if a deal works if you suck at math. You can also trade draft picks up to 3 years in advance, but you can only offer 5 components in a trade. So no 9 for 6 player deals... Extra Notes I AM NOT CREATING PLAYERS UNLESS YOU PROVIDE ME A VERY GOOD REASON FOR IT, AS IN THIS GUY KICKS A LOT OF ASS FOR THE REAL NBA TEAM Also the page doesn't appear to work for Netscape users, so you Netscape users need to look at the page using Internet Explorer in order to see everything. That is all for now, I am not going to announce when Free Agency will be until I'm able to upload the site to a server. Good Luck Everyone
A couple of other things. I have the game also so i can check potential trades. And for netscape users you must be using 6.x it will not work with 4.x CK
