Before the 20th of the month, you can make a Public Offer to any player
who is not contracted for the following year.
The offer value is displayed to all users, although your name is not.
The public offers are like an auction. Only the highest Public Offer
counts. If another manager makes a Public Offer with a higher value, your
offer is withdrawn.
Public Offers are binding contracts to sign that player in the first round
of signings for that amount. Public Offers may not be withdrawn unless they
are beaten by another Public Offer, or the player is not signed in the first
round of signing due to a bidding war.
Any Public Offer may be beat by a Private Offer in the first round of
bidding, or the player may be signed to a Contract Extension. Having the
highest Public Offer does not guarantee you the contract.
Contract Extensions
Starting on the 21st of each month, players will offer Contract Extensions
to their manager if they meet all of the conditions.
Players will only offer Contract Extensions if they are currently under
contract and in their last year. Offers are made to their current team only.
Players traded in their last year will not offer a contract extension.
In order to offer a Contract Extension, the player must have received the
minimum required number of PA or IP to avoid the
training penalty during play in April and May only
(the first 8 days of the regular season).
In other words, players will only offer
a contract extension if they are getting playing time.
Contract length will depend on the age of the player. Players 24 or
younger will offer for three years. 25 - 29 will offer for two years.
30 and older will offer for one year.
Contract amount will be the highest Public Offer + 15%, or their largest
salary that player ever was paid plus an additional amount for expected
training. The larger of these two prices is used.
Updated
The deadline to accept a Contract Extension is the 26th of the month,
the start of the playoffs.
If the Contract Extension is not accepted, then the player will accept
contracts according to the standard signing process, described below.
How do signings work?
No player may be signed until the season is over.
No player may be signed while his current team is involved in the playoffs.
No player may be signed while he is under another contract.
If a player received a Public Offer, then no offer may be made for the
first round that is less than that Public Offer.
Players may accept offers only at specific Signing Announcement times.
These times are highlighted on the Season
Milestones Schedule. At each Signing Announcement, each player not yet
signed who is the target of at least one offer will make a decision as per the
following rules.
If the best offer a player receives is from his own team, he will accept
it.
If the best offer a player receives is at least 2x more than the offer he
received from his own team, he will take it.
If the best offer a player receives is from another team, and it is not the
first Signing Agreement time, and his own team has not increased its offer to
at least the highest bid from the previous Signing Agreement time, he will
accept it. In other words, if someone overbids you for your own player, and
you do not bid at least that much in the next round, the player will sign with
the highest bidder.
If multiple teams submit the same best offer, the player will wait until
the next signing agreement time. If it is already the last time, then the
player will randomly accept the offer from one of the teams offering the best.
At each Signing Announcement, it will become known what the best offer is
for each player. Before then, offer amounts will be kept private.
Players will not sign in the first round of signings for a value of less
than $1,000.
What kind of offers can I make?
Each player can be offered a contract for as many years as is remaining on
the Stadium Pass. The Stadium Pass can be extended at any time.
Players contracts do not need to be for the same salary each year. The
offer can contain a different salary amount for each year of the contract.
A player cannot be offered a contract whose first year salary is larger
that the remaining finances for the team, assuming all contracts are accepted.
A player cannot be offered a contract where the salary for any year is more
than double or less than half the previous year.
A player cannot be offered a contract where the salary for any year is more
than four times the salary for any other year.
Owners may not dismiss any players from their team during the years covered
in the contract, unless an opt-out clause is used as described below.
Owners can place an opt-out amount on any number of years at the end of the
contract. At any time during the regular season, owners will be able to pay
the opt-out amount for all remaining years to cancel the remainder of the
contract. The player will then finish out the season with the team and become
a free agent.
How does the player determine which offer is the "best"?
The player determines the average yearly salary of the contract. If there
are opt-out clauses, he will average out each possible opt-out year and take
the lowest value.
If the player is old enough that his skills are declining with his age,
the player will modify any yearly salaries to compensate for the maximum
possible degredation of skills before determining the average year. This allows
for contracts with lower values in the final years to be offered to aging
players.
The player will expect a rise in salary each year throughout the
contract, and will modify their average yearly salary estimates based on
this. The increase expected will be based on the expected impact of training
as a percentage of existing skill, and will decrease as the player ages and
acquires more skill points.
How do buyouts affect the value of a contract?NEW
There is an example 4-year contract to the right. How does the buyout for year
4 affect the value of this contract? The player will calculate the average
yearly value of the contract as if it was bought out and as if it was. The
player will then take the lower value and use it as the value for the whole
contract. In this example, if the player was not bought out, he would be paid
$19,000 in 4 years. This is an average of $4,250 per year. If the owner
bought the contract out after the third year, the player would be paid $9,500
in 3 years. This is an average of $3,166 per year. In this case, the buyout
is too low and is affecting the value of the contract. To make the same amount
of money, $4,250 per year over three years is $12,750. He is being paid $9,000
in salary over the first three years. In order to keep the value of the
contract, the buyout for year 4 would have to be at least $3,750.
