EHEC Free Agent Frenzy; Offseason Schedule
Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 10:16 am
Strap in for a long post. Strap on if you're Femur.
The rollover occurs on the advance from the 20th to the 21st. So, consider today June 18. Tomorrow June 19. Wednesday June 20. In other words, if you want your prospects to have a chance at boosting, I suggest you get your contract offers in today or tomorrow. I will sim the 18th tonight, the 19th tomorrow, and then the 20th on Wednesday. After the rollover, I will advance the file through to 8/29 so that free agents show up in their proper place. The file will sit on 8/29 until, well, 8/29.
Here's the updated file, draft results and trades in: http://www.ehechockey.com/EHEC.zip (for those just downloading config_teams.ehm and the pictures folder, just copy/paste them in to your main Program Files/EHM folder)
For signing prospects, please look at the draft slotting chart in the Rulebook or just post default contract. I'll assume most of the prospect offers to be for boosters right now, but just put a * after the player's name if he is a booster, as he requires the 250,000 base salary increase for being a booster. Please don't make my blood pressure go up by offering $400,000. Remember that options are no longer permissible for entry level contracts, which all of these guys are on. ELCs include two-ways by default.
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Next item of business. Unrestricted free agency will start on Thursday. I will have the newly-updated file with all of the free agents in their proper place by then. Also, be aware of team options on your players. Let me know if you accept them or not.
Familiarize yourself with all of the free agent rules and regulations as they have definitely changed since last year. There will be another rule change posted to free agency later today in regards to the 80% previous year's salary rule as it pertains to guys who are essentially 3rd/4th liners or 5th-7th D. Remember that bids are submitted privately to the Free Agents account. Everything else you need to know is in the Rulebook under Free Agency. Use this thread for any questions you may have.
For GMs who requested only to make qualifying offers to their players, I will offer those and they will be RFAs, subject to RFA bidding later in the summer. I think the RFA bidding is like August 20 or something IRL, can't remember off the top of my head. But RFA bidding will be later, though, if it;'s anything like last year, there won't be much.
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Some of you have asked me about the 8.1.11 banner and the main page website. For those very observant ones who have asked if we are getting a new website, the answer is yes. Quinn has been very hard at work basically learning php on the fly and what I have seen so far has been nothing short of incredible. I won't go in to specifics just yet, but we are still shooting for a launch date of August 1, and plan on adding and editing minor details after the site release. It is going to completely change the way we do things around here but in a way that is very user friendly and GM-convenient. I'm stoked about it and I think all of you will be highly impressed and I think it will help lessen GM turnover as well as increase activity.
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Draft reviews will be due by Thursday at 11:59 pm ET. In order to be eligible for the rewards associated with the draft review, you must review all players drafted, giving a brief scouting report on them and why you took them. These are meant to be fun ways of creating activity and enhancing the overall atmosphere of the boards. Include trades completed during the draft. These rewards are TBA on Thursday. Only applicable to 2011 Draftees.
As for the draft previews, the rewards will be 10 leadership points to any one player and an additional 5 ceiling points to each of two players with less than 7 POT (if only one, an additional 8 ceiling points to that player). So, you can add 5 ceiling points to two of your 6 POT prospects or 8 ceiling points if you drafted just one 6 or 5 POT player. If you wish to use ceiling points on a booster, you are only allowed 5 total ceiling points for the draft preview. So, you would forfeit the chance to add 5 ceiling points to another player. Only applicable to 2011 Draftees.
I will make a GM Memos thread post for teams to post the players they wish to use these on and what attributes they want the ceiling increases to.
LE develops VERY slowly in the EHM world, so adding 10 points will give the player of your choice a good head start. For the ceiling points, I assume the only way to do this logically would be to add all 5 to one attribute, but if for whatever reason you wish to split them up 3 and 2, you can.
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I am begging you to stay active over the next 2 months. I know this is our downtime and not a whole lot is going on. I'd like for free agency to be active, despite a somewhat thin market, and I certainly want you to take advantage of getting used to the new website during August. The new website will be far more interactive than what we currently have, so there will be some things to get used to.
Along those same lines, we are looking in to incorporating a php chat on the forums which would be up all the time. Ideally, this chat would include a Who's Online list when signed in to the forums. However, much of what Quinn has found has cost money. If you guys want to volunteer to throw in some scratch for one of these, I'm all for adding it to the forums. I don't know how much money we're talking about, but I assume it would be a small fee, maybe $5-10/year per interested GM (assuming 10-15 would be interested).
We can re-open the hosting donations topic if we want, though I would never openly ask or expect the GMs to help out. If you have the means and wish to help lessen the costs for my Committee members and me, you know it would be appreciated.
I will probably update this thread throughout the week leading up to FA and with explanations of some of the harder to understand FA rules, but for now, if you're still reading, thanks.
The rollover occurs on the advance from the 20th to the 21st. So, consider today June 18. Tomorrow June 19. Wednesday June 20. In other words, if you want your prospects to have a chance at boosting, I suggest you get your contract offers in today or tomorrow. I will sim the 18th tonight, the 19th tomorrow, and then the 20th on Wednesday. After the rollover, I will advance the file through to 8/29 so that free agents show up in their proper place. The file will sit on 8/29 until, well, 8/29.
Here's the updated file, draft results and trades in: http://www.ehechockey.com/EHEC.zip (for those just downloading config_teams.ehm and the pictures folder, just copy/paste them in to your main Program Files/EHM folder)
For signing prospects, please look at the draft slotting chart in the Rulebook or just post default contract. I'll assume most of the prospect offers to be for boosters right now, but just put a * after the player's name if he is a booster, as he requires the 250,000 base salary increase for being a booster. Please don't make my blood pressure go up by offering $400,000. Remember that options are no longer permissible for entry level contracts, which all of these guys are on. ELCs include two-ways by default.
------------------------------------
Next item of business. Unrestricted free agency will start on Thursday. I will have the newly-updated file with all of the free agents in their proper place by then. Also, be aware of team options on your players. Let me know if you accept them or not.
Familiarize yourself with all of the free agent rules and regulations as they have definitely changed since last year. There will be another rule change posted to free agency later today in regards to the 80% previous year's salary rule as it pertains to guys who are essentially 3rd/4th liners or 5th-7th D. Remember that bids are submitted privately to the Free Agents account. Everything else you need to know is in the Rulebook under Free Agency. Use this thread for any questions you may have.
For GMs who requested only to make qualifying offers to their players, I will offer those and they will be RFAs, subject to RFA bidding later in the summer. I think the RFA bidding is like August 20 or something IRL, can't remember off the top of my head. But RFA bidding will be later, though, if it;'s anything like last year, there won't be much.
-----------------------------------
Some of you have asked me about the 8.1.11 banner and the main page website. For those very observant ones who have asked if we are getting a new website, the answer is yes. Quinn has been very hard at work basically learning php on the fly and what I have seen so far has been nothing short of incredible. I won't go in to specifics just yet, but we are still shooting for a launch date of August 1, and plan on adding and editing minor details after the site release. It is going to completely change the way we do things around here but in a way that is very user friendly and GM-convenient. I'm stoked about it and I think all of you will be highly impressed and I think it will help lessen GM turnover as well as increase activity.
-----------------------------------
Draft reviews will be due by Thursday at 11:59 pm ET. In order to be eligible for the rewards associated with the draft review, you must review all players drafted, giving a brief scouting report on them and why you took them. These are meant to be fun ways of creating activity and enhancing the overall atmosphere of the boards. Include trades completed during the draft. These rewards are TBA on Thursday. Only applicable to 2011 Draftees.
As for the draft previews, the rewards will be 10 leadership points to any one player and an additional 5 ceiling points to each of two players with less than 7 POT (if only one, an additional 8 ceiling points to that player). So, you can add 5 ceiling points to two of your 6 POT prospects or 8 ceiling points if you drafted just one 6 or 5 POT player. If you wish to use ceiling points on a booster, you are only allowed 5 total ceiling points for the draft preview. So, you would forfeit the chance to add 5 ceiling points to another player. Only applicable to 2011 Draftees.
I will make a GM Memos thread post for teams to post the players they wish to use these on and what attributes they want the ceiling increases to.
LE develops VERY slowly in the EHM world, so adding 10 points will give the player of your choice a good head start. For the ceiling points, I assume the only way to do this logically would be to add all 5 to one attribute, but if for whatever reason you wish to split them up 3 and 2, you can.
---------------------------------
I am begging you to stay active over the next 2 months. I know this is our downtime and not a whole lot is going on. I'd like for free agency to be active, despite a somewhat thin market, and I certainly want you to take advantage of getting used to the new website during August. The new website will be far more interactive than what we currently have, so there will be some things to get used to.
Along those same lines, we are looking in to incorporating a php chat on the forums which would be up all the time. Ideally, this chat would include a Who's Online list when signed in to the forums. However, much of what Quinn has found has cost money. If you guys want to volunteer to throw in some scratch for one of these, I'm all for adding it to the forums. I don't know how much money we're talking about, but I assume it would be a small fee, maybe $5-10/year per interested GM (assuming 10-15 would be interested).
We can re-open the hosting donations topic if we want, though I would never openly ask or expect the GMs to help out. If you have the means and wish to help lessen the costs for my Committee members and me, you know it would be appreciated.
I will probably update this thread throughout the week leading up to FA and with explanations of some of the harder to understand FA rules, but for now, if you're still reading, thanks.
