Free agency reminder
Mar 1, 2020 17:54:02 GMT -5
Post by Max (Tigers GM) on Mar 1, 2020 17:54:02 GMT -5
As per our rules:
" You may not bid more money than you have available. If you have 50 million available and you have two bids for 20 million each that are still leading, and another player comes up who you want, the most you can bid is 10 million unless one of your other bids gets beaten. However, you can always cut minor leaguers for a little extra wiggle room, so if that same GM who had 50 million available also had 10 million in minor leaguers, they can bid up to an extra 10 million if they're willing to take that risk. The risk with that is that if they were to win all three free agents at 20 million, now they'd have to cut all of their minor leaguers in order to get back under cap. In other words, players in your minor leagues can count as "available money..." as long as you're willing to cut them. Teams can have 48 hours to try to make a trade before they cut minor leaguers, but at the end of 48 hours they will have to cut prospects immediately or face severe penalties to be determined by the commissioners. Since non-tendering can now be done at any time during the offseason, you may also count money tied up in non-tenderable players in your flexible cash.
Another way to think about this is you can bid more than the amount you have available, as long as you have a straightforward, error-proof plan to get back under. This plan cannot involve trades or any other unknown variables, since there's no guarantee that you'll be able to make them work. That leaves minor league cuts and non-tenders as your options. If you're going to be bidding over your cap, you must be prepared to execute on this plan should it come to that."
In addition please review your roster size. Max roster limit is 80 players. Please make corrections if needed.
" You may not bid more money than you have available. If you have 50 million available and you have two bids for 20 million each that are still leading, and another player comes up who you want, the most you can bid is 10 million unless one of your other bids gets beaten. However, you can always cut minor leaguers for a little extra wiggle room, so if that same GM who had 50 million available also had 10 million in minor leaguers, they can bid up to an extra 10 million if they're willing to take that risk. The risk with that is that if they were to win all three free agents at 20 million, now they'd have to cut all of their minor leaguers in order to get back under cap. In other words, players in your minor leagues can count as "available money..." as long as you're willing to cut them. Teams can have 48 hours to try to make a trade before they cut minor leaguers, but at the end of 48 hours they will have to cut prospects immediately or face severe penalties to be determined by the commissioners. Since non-tendering can now be done at any time during the offseason, you may also count money tied up in non-tenderable players in your flexible cash.
Another way to think about this is you can bid more than the amount you have available, as long as you have a straightforward, error-proof plan to get back under. This plan cannot involve trades or any other unknown variables, since there's no guarantee that you'll be able to make them work. That leaves minor league cuts and non-tenders as your options. If you're going to be bidding over your cap, you must be prepared to execute on this plan should it come to that."
In addition please review your roster size. Max roster limit is 80 players. Please make corrections if needed.