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?
Re: Free Agency/Offseason
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2017 11:31 pm
by Vik (Habs)
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?
Re: Free Agency/Offseason
Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2017 9:40 pm
by Calgary.Flames
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?
Re: Free Agency/Offseason
Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2017 9:49 pm
by Vik (Habs)
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.
Re: Free Agency/Offseason
Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2017 2:23 am
by Vik (Habs)
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.
Re: Free Agency/Offseason
Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2017 9:40 pm
by Vik (Habs)
Might want to lock the Free Agency forum until bids are allowed.
Re: Free Agency/Offseason
Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2017 3:55 am
by SharksGM
Vik (Habs) wrote:Might want to lock the Free Agency forum until bids are allowed.
We're all well-behaved here.
Re: Free Agency/Offseason
Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2017 12:13 am
by Calgary.Flames
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.
Re: Free Agency/Offseason
Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2017 1:33 am
by Vik (Habs)
Missed a 0 in Rutkowski's salary.
Ebbe Sionas shouldn't've got a contract.
Was anything done about Matteau?
Re: Free Agency/Offseason
Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2017 2:14 am
by Calgary.Flames
Changed to 4 years. Reloaded.
Re: Free Agency/Offseason
Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2017 11:27 am
by SharksGM
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.
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.
Re: Free Agency/Offseason
Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2017 12:53 pm
by Capital Gains
If you want to offer on a RFA, do you still send it to Free Agent account?
Re: Free Agency/Offseason
Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2017 1:12 pm
by Vik (Habs)
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
Re: Free Agency/Offseason
Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2017 1:45 pm
by Jets GM
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
Re: Free Agency/Offseason
Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2017 1:45 pm
by Jets GM
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
Re: Free Agency/Offseason
Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2017 2:01 pm
by Calgary.Flames
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.
Re: Free Agency/Offseason
Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2017 2:19 pm
by Capital Gains
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.
Re: Free Agency/Offseason
Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2017 2:46 pm
by Capital Gains
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.
Re: Free Agency/Offseason
Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2017 2:50 pm
by Calgary.Flames
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.
Re: Free Agency/Offseason
Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2017 2:59 pm
by Calgary.Flames
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.
Re: Free Agency/Offseason
Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2017 4:53 pm
by VancouverCanucksGM
Vik (Habs) wrote:Rest of the boosts: Rodrigo Abols 1x (VAN) *21 year old
Rodrigo Suave!
Re: Free Agency/Offseason
Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2017 5:58 pm
by Vik (Habs)
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.
Re: Free Agency/Offseason
Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2017 8:55 pm
by Calgary.Flames
Vik (Habs) wrote:Ondrej Najman
SharksGM wrote:Pierre-Olivier Joseph
Re: Free Agency/Offseason
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2017 1:43 am
by Vik (Habs)
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?
Re: Free Agency/Offseason
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2017 7:53 am
by Calgary.Flames
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.
Re: Free Agency/Offseason
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2017 11:06 am
by SharksGM
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.
Re: Free Agency/Offseason
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2017 11:12 am
by Capital Gains
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?
Re: Free Agency/Offseason
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2017 11:34 am
by SharksGM
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.
Re: Free Agency/Offseason
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2017 9:04 pm
by Vik (Habs)
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.
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.
Re: Free Agency/Offseason
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2017 9:54 pm
by Bruins_GM
Johan Franzen seems to have disappeared from my roster.
Re: Free Agency/Offseason
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2017 10:44 pm
by SharksGM
Bruins_GM wrote:Johan Franzen seems to have disappeared from my roster.
He was set to retire and you never asked to unretire him.
Re: Free Agency/Offseason
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2017 10:53 pm
by Vik (Habs)
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.
Re: Free Agency/Offseason
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2017 10:58 pm
by SharksGM
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.
Re: Free Agency/Offseason
Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2017 1:46 am
by Vik (Habs)
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?
Re: Free Agency/Offseason
Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2017 7:24 am
by Calgary.Flames
Whenever Dan is able to read staff.ehm I would guess.
Re: Free Agency/Offseason
Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2017 2:12 pm
by Dallas Stars GM
Cap ceiling and contracts went down by 20%.
So also the cap penalty that the team is carrying also went down by 20%, right?
Re: Free Agency/Offseason
Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2017 3:40 pm
by Calgary.Flames
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.
Re: Free Agency/Offseason
Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2017 6:43 pm
by Bruins_GM
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.
Re: Free Agency/Offseason
Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2017 9:22 pm
by TorontoGM
It will state they are retiring under the Status column in Roster Management.
Just a heads up
Re: Free Agency/Offseason
Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2017 2:23 pm
by Vik (Habs)
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).
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.