Free Agency/Offseason

Post by **SharksGM** » Tue Aug 01, 2017 9:50 pm

Here's the plan for the rest of the offseason:

1. The RFA re-signing period will end Saturday at 11:59 PM EST. Get all of your players signed or given QOs before then or they're headed to UFA. If we haven't found a new Florida GM, we'll also re-sign their players to sensible deals.

2. Shortly thereafter, we'll advance the file. I think it can be done without lowering salaries. After that, we'll offer QOs to the players who need them. Then we'll do the 20% salary cut and advance the file past July 31st.

3. UFA signing will begin on Monday, August 7th at 7 PM EST, so you'll have a couple of days to review your boosters (if any) and make last-minute trades before UFA. UFA will proceed as usual until the pre-season starts.

Any questions?

Vik (Habs) · Post by **Vik (Habs)** » Tue Aug 01, 2017 11:31 pm

SharksGM wrote:If we haven't found a new Florida GM, we'll also re-sign their players to sensible deals.

What about the other teams that technically have GMs but don't seem to be making offers?

SharksGM wrote:3. UFA signing will begin on Monday, August 7th at 7 PM EST, so you'll have a couple of days to review your boosters (if any) and make last-minute trades before UFA. UFA will proceed as usual until the pre-season starts.

Do we have set-in-stone rules for it yet?

Calgary.Flames · Post by **Calgary.Flames** » Wed Aug 02, 2017 9:40 pm

Vik (Habs) wrote:
SharksGM wrote:If we haven't found a new Florida GM, we'll also re-sign their players to sensible deals.
What about the other teams that technically have GMs but don't seem to be making offers?

SharksGM wrote:3. UFA signing will begin on Monday, August 7th at 7 PM EST, so you'll have a couple of days to review your boosters (if any) and make last-minute trades before UFA. UFA will proceed as usual until the pre-season starts.
Do we have set-in-stone rules for it yet?

Who hasn't made their offers yet? Vancouver, Carolina, Ottawa, Florida, Minnesota, NYR and Pittsburgh?

Vik (Habs) · Post by **Vik (Habs)** » Wed Aug 02, 2017 9:49 pm

Calgary.Flames wrote:
Vik (Habs) wrote:
SharksGM wrote:If we haven't found a new Florida GM, we'll also re-sign their players to sensible deals.
What about the other teams that technically have GMs but don't seem to be making offers?

SharksGM wrote:3. UFA signing will begin on Monday, August 7th at 7 PM EST, so you'll have a couple of days to review your boosters (if any) and make last-minute trades before UFA. UFA will proceed as usual until the pre-season starts.
Do we have set-in-stone rules for it yet?
Who hasn't made their offers yet? Vancouver, Carolina, Ottawa, Florida, Minnesota, NYR and Pittsburgh?

Looks about right. Vancouver PMed me about his so hopefully he's posting some soon.

Vik (Habs) · Post by **Vik (Habs)** » Thu Aug 03, 2017 2:23 am

SharksGM wrote:2. Shortly thereafter, we'll advance the file. I think it can be done without lowering salaries. After that, we'll offer QOs to the players who need them. Then we'll do the 20% salary cut and advance the file past July 31st.

Just tried and it didn't let met advance a day in 1.16. This being the boost sim and all, it's kind of important that we use 1.16.

Vik (Habs) · Post by **Vik (Habs)** » Sat Aug 05, 2017 9:40 pm

Might want to lock the Free Agency forum until bids are allowed.

Post by **SharksGM** » Sun Aug 06, 2017 3:55 am

Vik (Habs) wrote:Might want to lock the Free Agency forum until bids are allowed.

We're all well-behaved here.

Calgary.Flames · Post by **Calgary.Flames** » Mon Aug 07, 2017 12:13 am

File updated.

Will update the 4 remaining teams soon and we'll have Free Agency finally start on Wednesday 7pm EST instead.
Sorry, we were hoping some guys would show up but they are not, I guess. MIN has been around not that long ago and so was OTT. NYR answered my emails but never actually showed up.

I have already signed guys to their 1-year QOs and I will post a list of all the RFAs with the next and final file update.
I will also give the RFA compensations a little update only to have more round numbers there, nothing major.
Finally, I will also add that in order to make an offer sheet, you need to have your own picks matching the compensation.

Now's a good time to tell me of anything that's been missed and whatnot.

Vik (Habs) · Post by **Vik (Habs)** » Mon Aug 07, 2017 1:33 am

Missed a 0 in Rutkowski's salary.
Ebbe Sionas shouldn't've got a contract.

Was anything done about Matteau?

Calgary.Flames · Post by **Calgary.Flames** » Mon Aug 07, 2017 2:14 am

Changed to 4 years. Reloaded.

Post by **SharksGM** » Mon Aug 07, 2017 11:27 am

File updated past the rollover. Still a few things todo: Pronger, Elias, Doan, Boyle, Pahlsson and Backstrom should be set to retire before rolling past July 31. Probably a few other 38-39 year olds with expiring contracts too.

Now the exciting/depressing news, boosters (that I noticed):

Pierre-Olivier Joseph
Mackenzie Entwistle
David Farrance
Markus Phillips
Jesse Koskenkorva
Gustav Lindstrom
Robbie Stucker (1x)
Mario Ferraro
Kristians Rubins
Pavel Yelshansky (2x)
Dylan Coghlan (1x)
Dylan Samberg
Griffin Mendel (1x)
Vladislav Yeryomenko
Ivan Lisin (2x)

Sorry Vik, better luck next year.

I'll pass the file over to Julien to fix anything that's broken/missing. If he can get it ready in time for UFA to start, we're good to go. Otherwise we may have to delay the start by a day before rolling over to August.

Post by **SharksGM** » Mon Aug 07, 2017 11:28 am

List of qualified restricted free agents

BUF-Basaraba
CGY-Lamsa
CAR-Baldayev
CBS-Fucale, Hachler, Binnington, Racuk, Dunn
DAL-Laughton, Nastasiuk, Osnovin, Seaman
EDM-McCann, Kase, Engvall, Calnan, Point, Kamenev
FLA- Bozon
LA-Demko, DeAngelo
MIN-Holmstrom, Jenys, Starrett, Werek, Lowry
MTL-Buchnevich, Mironov, Sanford
NSH-Kuznetsov, Telegin, Zadrazil, Collins
NYR-Salminen, McAdam, Cotton, Paul, Severson, Roy, Auger
OTT-Nermark, Brouillard, Stephenson, Ziegler, McNulty, Donnay
PIT-Nantel
STL-Lauta, Juntilla, Carrick
VAN-Rutkowski
WPG-Hawryluk, Budish, Nestrasil, Archibald, Kralik

Jets GM · Post by **Jets GM** » Mon Aug 07, 2017 11:53 am

SharksGM wrote:File updated past the rollover. Still a few things todo: Pronger, Elias, Doan, Boyle, Pahlsson and Backstrom should be set to retire before rolling past July 31. Probably a few other 38-39 year olds with expiring contracts too.

Now the exciting/depressing news, boosters (that I noticed):

Pierre-Olivier Joseph
Mackenzie Entwistle
David Farrance
Markus Phillips
Jesse Koskenkorva
Gustav Lindstrom
Robbie Stucker (1x)
Mario Ferraro
Kristians Rubins
Pavel Yelshansky (2x)
Dylan Coghlan (1x)
Dylan Samberg
Griffin Mendel (1x)
Vladislav Yeryomenko
Ivan Lisin (2x)

Sorry Vik, better luck next year.

I'll pass the file over to Julien to fix anything that's broken/missing. If he can get it ready in time for UFA to start, we're good to go. Otherwise we may have to delay the start by a day before rolling over to August.

Wow....just boom! Right away.

Patrick Bajkov boosted for me too.

Capital Gains · Post by **Capital Gains** » Mon Aug 07, 2017 12:53 pm

If you want to offer on a RFA, do you still send it to Free Agent account?

Vik (Habs) · Post by **Vik (Habs)** » Mon Aug 07, 2017 1:12 pm

Rest of the boosts:
Ilya Karpukhin 1x (ANH)
Ondrej Najman (CGY)
Griffin Mendel 1x (WPG)
Filip Hronek 1x (EDM)
Blake Clarke 1x (FLA) *21 year old
Yevgeni Mityakin (MTL)
Jesper Bratt (MTL)
Alexei Toropchenko (MTL)
Gabriel Sylvestre (MTL)
Luke Green (N.J)
Patrick Bajkov (T.B)
Rodrigo Abols 1x (VAN) *21 year old
Wiley Sherman 1x (WSH) *22 year old

Jets GM · Post by **Jets GM** » Mon Aug 07, 2017 1:45 pm

Vik (Habs) wrote:Rest of the boosts:
Ilya Karpukhin 1x (ANH)
Ondrej Najman (CGY)
Griffin Mendel 1x (WPG)
Filip Hronek 1x (EDM)
Blake Clarke 1x (FLA) *21 year old
Yevgeni Mityakin (MTL)
Jesper Bratt (MTL)
Alexei Toropchenko (MTL)
Gabriel Sylvestre (MTL)
Luke Green (N.J)
Patrick Bajkov (T.B)
Rodrigo Abols 1x (VAN) *21 year old
Wiley Sherman 1x (WSH) *22 year old

Jets GM · Post by **Jets GM** » Mon Aug 07, 2017 1:45 pm

Vik (Habs) wrote:Rest of the boosts:
Ilya Karpukhin 1x (ANH)
Ondrej Najman (CGY)
Griffin Mendel 1x (WPG)
Filip Hronek 1x (EDM)
Blake Clarke 1x (FLA) *21 year old
Yevgeni Mityakin (MTL)
Jesper Bratt (MTL)
Alexei Toropchenko (MTL)
Gabriel Sylvestre (MTL)
Luke Green (N.J)
Patrick Bajkov (T.B)
Rodrigo Abols 1x (VAN) *21 year old
Wiley Sherman 1x (WSH) *22 year old

Calgary.Flames · Post by **Calgary.Flames** » Mon Aug 07, 2017 2:01 pm

Capital Gains wrote:If you want to offer on a RFA, do you still send it to Free Agent account?

Just like you would a UFA, on the forum directly, open bidding. Remember that for quite some time, you'll only be able to send offer sheets matching the calculator number. After, there's going to be another couple weeks where the players will accept offers starting at 120% of their last previous salary. You also need your own picks matchin the compensation associated with your offer.

Capital Gains · Post by **Capital Gains** » Mon Aug 07, 2017 2:19 pm

Calgary.Flames wrote:
Capital Gains wrote:If you want to offer on a RFA, do you still send it to Free Agent account?
Just like you would a UFA, on the forum directly, open bidding. Remember that for quite some time, you'll only be able to send offer sheets matching the calculator number. After, there's going to be another couple weeks where the players will accept offers starting at 120% of their last previous salary. You also need your own picks matchin the compensation associated with your offer.

That really doesn't make sense in regards to RFA offers and being out in the open. If player makes $1.000.000, I should be able to just offer him $1.200.000 (20%) and not a number of a sheet.

Capital Gains · Post by **Capital Gains** » Mon Aug 07, 2017 2:46 pm

Calgary.Flames wrote:
Capital Gains wrote:If you want to offer on a RFA, do you still send it to Free Agent account?
Just like you would a UFA, on the forum directly, open bidding. Remember that for quite some time, you'll only be able to send offer sheets matching the calculator number. After, there's going to be another couple weeks where the players will accept offers starting at 120% of their last previous salary. You also need your own picks matchin the compensation associated with your offer.

So there's no free agent account on here? I saw it on the site that there was one.

Calgary.Flames · Post by **Calgary.Flames** » Mon Aug 07, 2017 2:50 pm

There used to be one but we don't need it anymore with open bidding.

I don't get what your point is, they are RFAs, you shouldn't be able to offer sheet players like crazy, it's meant to help teams control their young players until they get to a certain point in their careers. No one's signing other teams' RFAs in real life either.

Calgary.Flames · Post by **Calgary.Flames** » Mon Aug 07, 2017 2:59 pm

In order to make staff pretty much irrelevant and fun-only, we'll have them all rated equally with 80 across the board.
You'll get to pick who you actually like in real life and not care if they're better than the next guy anymore.

So, don't bother editing or re-signing your staff for now.

VancouverCanucksGM · Post by **VancouverCanucksGM** » Mon Aug 07, 2017 4:53 pm

Vik (Habs) wrote:Rest of the boosts:
Rodrigo Abols 1x (VAN) *21 year old

Rodrigo Suave!

Vik (Habs) · Post by **Vik (Habs)** » Mon Aug 07, 2017 5:58 pm

Capital Gains wrote:That really doesn't make sense in regards to RFA offers and being out in the open. If player makes $1.000.000, I should be able to just offer him $1.200.000 (20%) and not a number of a sheet.

If you're after other teams' RFAs, it doesn't make a lot of sense to just offer the 20% increase on their salary anyway. They were qualified so, presumably, that's what the team is expecting to re-sign them for meaning any such offer is almost guaranteed to be matched.

Calgary.Flames · Post by **Calgary.Flames** » Mon Aug 07, 2017 8:55 pm

Vik (Habs) wrote:Ondrej Najman

SharksGM wrote:Pierre-Olivier Joseph

Vik (Habs) · Post by **Vik (Habs)** » Tue Aug 08, 2017 1:43 am

Is there a minimum bid for UFAs to start free agency or is it just the minimum salary for everybody?
I doubt it comes up this year but are we allowed to match maximum bids (max salary for max years)?
Do we go by 80% of spreadsheet numbers for RFA offer sheets?

Calgary.Flames · Post by **Calgary.Flames** » Tue Aug 08, 2017 7:53 am

Vik (Habs) wrote:Is there a minimum bid for UFAs to start free agency

no

Vik (Habs) wrote:or is it just the minimum salary for everybody?

yes

Vik (Habs) wrote:I doubt it comes up this year but are we allowed to match maximum bids (max salary for max years)?

we'd have a random draw like we had with Spezza a couple seasons ago but it hadn't cross my mind honestly.

Vik (Habs) wrote:Do we go by 80% of spreadsheet numbers for RFA offer sheets?

from the rulebook:
- Once a RFA has received a qualifying offer, other teams can send an offer sheet. To send an offer sheet, a team must have his own picks for the compensation associated with the salary being offered. The offer sheet must be posted in the free agency forum and must at least match the salary determined by the salary calculator, until September 1, game date. After that date, offer sheets must be at least a 20% increase on the player's currently listed salary. Salaries below league minimum will be adjusted to that number. And on September 15, RFA who have received no other offers will be signed with their "owning team" for a one-year deal at 120% of their previous contract.

Post by **SharksGM** » Tue Aug 08, 2017 11:06 am

Vik (Habs) wrote:Do we go by 80% of spreadsheet numbers for RFA offer sheets?

Yes. Just to make it easier I changed the calculator to spit out 80% of the old value.

Capital Gains · Post by **Capital Gains** » Tue Aug 08, 2017 11:12 am

Calgary.Flames wrote:
Vik (Habs) wrote:Is there a minimum bid for UFAs to start free agency
no

Vik (Habs) wrote:or is it just the minimum salary for everybody?
yes

Vik (Habs) wrote:I doubt it comes up this year but are we allowed to match maximum bids (max salary for max years)?
we'd have a random draw like we had with Spezza a couple seasons ago but it hadn't cross my mind honestly.

Vik (Habs) wrote:Do we go by 80% of spreadsheet numbers for RFA offer sheets?
from the rulebook:
- Once a RFA has received a qualifying offer, other teams can send an offer sheet. To send an offer sheet, a team must have his own picks for the compensation associated with the salary being offered. The offer sheet must be posted in the free agency forum and must at least match the salary determined by the salary calculator, until September 1, game date. After that date, offer sheets must be at least a 20% increase on the player's currently listed salary. Salaries below league minimum will be adjusted to that number. And on September 15, RFA who have received no other offers will be signed with their "owning team" for a one-year deal at 120% of their previous contract.

So we have to wait until Sept 1st (real time) at the earliest to see if an RFA offer will not be matched?

Post by **SharksGM** » Tue Aug 08, 2017 11:34 am

Capital Gains wrote:So we have to wait until Sept 1st (real time) at the earliest to see if an RFA offer will not be matched?

GMs have to decide to match once bidding closes. There wasn't a limit specified but we'll make it 5 days from close of bid.

Vik (Habs) · Post by **Vik (Habs)** » Tue Aug 08, 2017 9:04 pm

Came up with a rather crude estimate for where teams are at cap-wise. I included any player that met one of the following:

Waiver eligible at December 31st making over 800k

Not waiver eligible at December 31st making over 2M

Non-goalies rated over 74 OA (>= 75)

Buy out penalties

This will obviously leave some guys off that probably should be included and include some guys that oughtn't but it's just to give people an idea of whereabouts teams sit.

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NSH	16	56302500	59902500
CBJ	19	56680000	58480000
N.J	19	56376000	58176000
BUF	18	55669000	58069000
PIT	18	55140000	57540000
OTT	13	51795000	57195000
FLA	14	52320000	57120000
S.J	14	52311000	57111000
TOR	23	56680000	56680000
DAL	15	52475000	56675000

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CGY	15	52180000	56380000
COL	20	54985000	56185000
DET	17	53157000	56157000
VAN	18	53736000	56136000
NYI	18	53360000	55760000
CAR	17	52600000	55600000
BOS	23	55368000	55368000
ARI	12	48924000	54924000
WSH	20	53704000	54904000
EDM	17	51472750	54472750

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L.A	12	47010000	53010000
PHI	12	45856000	51856000
ANA	20	49756000	50956000
CHI	12	44887000	50887000
T.B	 8	41580000	49980000
WPG	17	46664000	49664000
NYR	14	44560000	49360000
MTL	21	47072000	47672000
MIN	13	41210000	46610000
STL	17	42947500	45947500

The first number is how many players are included, second number is total salaries of those players, third number is where teams would sit if they filled their remaining spots with league minimum (600k) players.

Bruins_GM · Post by **Bruins_GM** » Tue Aug 08, 2017 9:54 pm

Johan Franzen seems to have disappeared from my roster.

Post by **SharksGM** » Tue Aug 08, 2017 10:44 pm

Bruins_GM wrote:Johan Franzen seems to have disappeared from my roster.

He was set to retire and you never asked to unretire him.

Vik (Habs) · Post by **Vik (Habs)** » Tue Aug 08, 2017 10:53 pm

SharksGM wrote:
Bruins_GM wrote:Johan Franzen seems to have disappeared from my roster.
He was set to retire and you never asked to unretire him.

So do we gotta add that as a cap penalty? Were there any others retirees that had term left?

Also, the numbers I posted before will be slightly overstated for any team with buyout penalties - I hadn't rolled those back yet.

Post by **SharksGM** » Tue Aug 08, 2017 10:58 pm

Vik (Habs) wrote:
SharksGM wrote:
Bruins_GM wrote:Johan Franzen seems to have disappeared from my roster.
He was set to retire and you never asked to unretire him.
So do we gotta add that as a cap penalty? Were there any others retirees that had term left?

I don't know. We didn't purposely set anyone still under contract to retire, but we also didn't go through and unretire every player under contract that the game had set to retire at the start of the season.

Vik (Habs) · Post by **Vik (Habs)** » Wed Aug 09, 2017 1:46 am

Calgary.Flames wrote:In order to make staff pretty much irrelevant and fun-only, we'll have them all rated equally with 80 across the board.
You'll get to pick who you actually like in real life and not care if they're better than the next guy anymore.

When this happening?

Calgary.Flames · Post by **Calgary.Flames** » Wed Aug 09, 2017 7:24 am

Whenever Dan is able to read staff.ehm I would guess.

Dallas Stars GM · Post by **Dallas Stars GM** » Wed Aug 09, 2017 2:12 pm

Cap ceiling and contracts went down by 20%.
So also the cap penalty that the team is carrying also went down by 20%, right?

Calgary.Flames · Post by **Calgary.Flames** » Wed Aug 09, 2017 3:40 pm

Dallas Stars GM wrote:Cap ceiling and contracts went down by 20%.
So also the cap penalty that the team is carrying also went down by 20%, right?

Right. Will edit the amounts soon.

Bruins_GM · Post by **Bruins_GM** » Wed Aug 09, 2017 6:43 pm

SharksGM wrote:
Bruins_GM wrote:Johan Franzen seems to have disappeared from my roster.
He was set to retire and you never asked to unretire him.

I didn't see he was set to retire, I haven't opened actual EHM in months, nor did I expect to see him in the retirement list.

Whatever you guys decide is fine.

TorontoGM · Post by **TorontoGM** » Wed Aug 09, 2017 9:22 pm

It will state they are retiring under the Status column in Roster Management.

Just a heads up

Vik (Habs) · Post by **Vik (Habs)** » Sat Aug 12, 2017 2:23 pm

Updated numbers for current completed UFA deals. Also including total number of non-junior aged (as of the current date in-game) contracts in this one (since players younger than 20 won't necessarily count against the limit).

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	BUF	49	21	60019000	60619000	
	NSH	49	19	58430000	60230000	
	TOR	39	25	59180000	59180000	
	DET	44	20	57607000	58807000	
	S.J	43	15	54351000	58551000	
	CBJ	46	19	56680000	58480000	
	N.J	43	19	56376000	58176000	
	WPG	46	21	57564000	58164000	
	CGY	42	18	55380000	57780000	
	PIT	43	18	55140000	57540000

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	MTL	45	23	57472000	57472000	
	CHI	35	18	54737000	57137000	
	DAL	44	17	54100000	57100000	
	OTT	30	13	51671000	57071000	
	FLA	27	14	51896000	56696000	
	WSH	45	23	56324000	56324000	
	ARI	41	13	50824000	56224000	
	NYI	43	19	54410000	56210000	
	COL	40	20	54780000	55980000	
	CAR	45	17	52600000	55600000

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	EDM	43	20	54371000	55571000	
	BOS	36	23	55368000	55368000	
	L.A	45	14	50460000	55260000	
	T.B	45	13	49100000	54500000	
	ANA	42	22	53256000	53256000	
	VAN	44	16	49216000	52816000	
	PHI	45	14	47536000	52336000	
	NYR	35	14	44560000	49360000	
	MIN	24	13	41210000	46610000	
	STL	32	17	41980000	44980000

Calgary.Flames · Post by **Calgary.Flames** » Sun Aug 20, 2017 10:53 pm

We will terminate the free releases on September 1st.

We will have a "waiver day" on October 1st which means that all players will be considered a part of your NHL team and in order to fill your farm team, waiver-eligible players will need to clear before being sent down.