FA Rules
After the deadline you may start resigning any group of free agent you have. However if you want a player to resign early you must pay him a signing bonus of
550,000. Maximum contract length is four years. There are no extensions. Players
only can be resigned when their contract is going to be up.
As far as signing after the playoffs here are the guidelines. You
must put down a offer that matches a Group 2 (30&Under) FA. If you don't
put up a initial offer your player will become a unrestricted FA. If you put
down a initial offer and another team signs them to an offer sheet (must be
more than what you offered) you have a week to match the offer. If you wish
not to match the offer you'll recieve five consecutive first rounders (if the
other team doesn't have this avaliable then a judge will decide what is a
equal package). Unrestricted FAs are done slightly different. They go to
the highest bidder (if this gets out of hand i'll have to put a stop to it).
There will be a set date after the season when the highest bidder on a FA
gets him and the initial offer on a group 2 FA put down on a contract. If
you are signing a player from another team you must pay them a signing bonus.
these are the guidelines for the bonuses. Rating of 0-60=400,000. 60-65=750,000.
65-69=850,000. 70-75= 1,250,000. 75-79= 1,650,000. 80-83= 1,905,000. 84-87= 2,300,000
87+= 3,500,000. A team does have the option of not wishing to resign a unrestricted
FA then the team that ends up signing him doesn't need to pay him a signing bonus.
If you feel a player's contract is too high you do have the option of arbitration
(this is somewhat backwards from real life) plead your case to me and i'll
decide if the player makes too much and if he does how much to lower his contract.
I will handle the financial issues with GMless teams. If you are a GM that does
not care about his team or i feel you are simply making a stupid decision (ex.
not resigning jagr) i will handle your finances and most likely dismiss you
from the league. To find who needs to be resigned on your team look on the player
vitals page. After the season all the resigned players will be noted as resigned