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Post by New York Mets on Mar 7, 2022 9:25:08 GMT -6
For our inaugural Free Agency, players have been scheduled into 3 tiers with 1 tier being bid on each week--opening on Monday and closing at 9 PM Central on Sunday.
The maximum contract length a team can offer is 4 years with minimum bid increments of at least $100K. Teams must include the years and annual value in their bid. Increasing the years would not improve the offer. At the end of the bidding period, the player will be awarded to the team with the team who offered the highest annual value. A team who re-signs a player will have a 25% hometown discount applied to their winning bid. A player signed in Free Agency cannot be traded until July 1st.
If the last bid on a player was by 8:50 PM CST on Sunday night, then the player would close at 9:00 PM CST. If there's a bid at 8:51 PM CST, then the bidding will close at 9:01 PM CST if there are no other bids by that time. If there's a bid at 8:59 PM CST, then the bidding will close if there are no other bids by 9:09 PM CST. We go by timestamps of the posts on the forum and there is also now a live clock. As a reminder, you can put in several bids on a player--not just one. In order to improve your offer from another team's and be the highest bidder, you have to bid at least 100K more than the previous offer. You have to specify the years, but you can offer 1, 2, 3, or 4 years. The financial amount you're offering in your bid is the annual amount of the contract.
Teams will be able to bid on someone even if they're at 50 players. However, they'll need to get under immediately if they win the player because that would take them over the roster limit. Teams can also bid more than the money they currently have available, but they would also need to get under the salary cap within an hour if they win the player and that takes them over the salary cap.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2022 10:55:16 GMT -6
What determines the winning bid?
Highest AAV, Total salary commitment.
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Post by Boston Red Sox on Mar 9, 2022 14:54:06 GMT -6
Salary per year
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Post by New York Mets on Mar 10, 2022 11:50:55 GMT -6
At the end of the bidding period, the player will be awarded to the team with the team who offered the highest annual value. It's the salary per year, not total commitment.
There isn't any hometown discounts for this year because none of these players were on a B1G team at the end of the year--they were all either released or weren't on a team. The hometown discount would be applied for the team who has it after the bidding closes so you still go by the annual offer.
Also to clarify, salaries are in a minimum of 100K increments. So you can't offer a player 1.25 million, it would either be 1.1 million or 1.3 million.
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Post by New York Mets on Mar 10, 2022 12:02:08 GMT -6
One more note: PLEASE DO NOT DELETE OR EDIT ANY POSTS IN THE BIDDING FORUMS!
I do not have the ability to remove those permissions from the forum, but we have a security log that we can see whenever someone does delete or edit any post (just that they do it, not what was edited). If you make a mistake, you need to leave the original post and create a new reply.
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Post by Kansas City Royals on Mar 13, 2022 20:27:02 GMT -6
sorry the post I deleted was identical the one I had already posted
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2022 20:32:37 GMT -6
I changed a comma to a period. Sorry. For example, 1,1 million to 1.1 million.
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Post by New York Mets on Mar 13, 2022 20:34:37 GMT -6
It's no problem, I just wanted to make sure everyone knew the ground rules. In the future, you can just make a new post--though you wouldn't need to clarify the comma to decimal, that's fine.
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Post by New York Yankees on Mar 22, 2023 7:35:36 GMT -6
Just a couple of questions so I am clear.
1. No long term discount like we did in LWNN, right?
2. The current open group will close at 9 PM Central on Sunday 3-26?
TY
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Post by New York Mets on Mar 23, 2023 8:12:22 GMT -6
Just a couple of questions so I am clear. 1. No long term discount like we did in LWNN, right? 2. The current open group will close at 9 PM Central on Sunday 3-26? TY Correct on both. There is a hometown discount, but no long-term discount. I'll be sending a reminder later today to everyone by email, but included below is the section from the Rulebook on Free Agency. E. Free Agency ProcessAt the end of every season, players not under contract would be added to a tiered Free Agency list. The maximum contract length a team can offer is 4 years with minimum bid increments of $100K (all salaries are in $100K increments). Teams must include the years and annual value in their bid. Increasing the years would not improve the offer. At the end of the bidding period, the player will be awarded to the team with the team who offered the highest annual value. A team who re-signs a player will have a 25% hometown discount applied to their winning bid. A player signed in Free Agency cannot be traded until July 1st. For our inaugural Free Agency, players have been scheduled into 3 tiers with 1 tier being bid on each week--opening on Monday and closing at 9 PM Central on Sunday. If the last bid on a player was by 8:50 PM CST on Sunday night, then the player would close at 9:00 PM CST. If there's a bid at 8:51 PM CST, then the bidding will close at 9:01 PM CST if there are no other bids by that time. If there's a bid at 8:59 PM CST, then the bidding will close if there are no other bids by 9:09 PM CST. We go by timestamps of the posts on the forum and there is also now a live clock. As a reminder, you can put in several bids on a player--not just one. In order to improve your offer from another team's and be the highest bidder, you have to bid at least 100K more than the previous offer. You have to specify the years, but you can offer 1, 2, 3, or 4 years. The financial amount you're offering in your bid is the annual amount of the contract. Teams will be able to bid on someone even if they're at 50 players. However, they'll need to get under immediately if they win the player because that would take them over the limit. Teams can also bid more than the money they currently have available, but they would also need to get under the salary cap within an hour if they win the player and that takes them over the salary cap. PLEASE DO NOT DELETE OR EDIT ANY POSTS IN THE BIDDING FORUMS! If you make a mistake, you need to leave the original post and create a new reply. |
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Post by New York Mets on Mar 26, 2023 21:15:37 GMT -6
I could have sworn that we had language in the rules that if bidding doesn't close by 10 PM CST then the player is added to the next FA tier with the bidding continuing and closing with that group. I wasn't expecting this still going, but I think we'll want to add that carryover for future bidding. Thoughts?
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Post by Philadelphia Phillies on Mar 26, 2023 21:22:42 GMT -6
I agree, gotta end at some point.
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Post by Boston Red Sox on Mar 26, 2023 21:26:02 GMT -6
I personally would like a 24 hours with no bids ends it. Players posted on Monday, get bid on, and if it ends Tuesday after 1 bid, it ends. Instead of a whole week waiting for 5 minutes.
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Post by Miami Marlins on Mar 26, 2023 23:21:22 GMT -6
I kind of like Boston's idea. 7pm Pacific on Sundays is nearly impossible for me to make every week. I know I can have someone do it for me, but that's tough in weeks like this where everyone is so equal for the most part so price plays a huge role in which direction I want to go.
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Post by New York Yankees on Mar 27, 2023 14:22:38 GMT -6
I don't mind that idea, but maybe post on Monday then open until 9 PM Wednesday...anything with no bids in more than 24 hours at that point is closed. My only reasoning is that just a 24 hour period still means you might miss out on that if you're not around that day - just shifting the issue from Sunday to Tuesday. Anyone left open gets 24 hours again over the next couple of days, and the handful of remaining go to the existing 10 minute closing on Sunday night.
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Post by Boston Red Sox on Mar 27, 2023 15:19:36 GMT -6
I don't mind that idea, but maybe post on Monday then open until 9 PM Wednesday...anything with no bids in more than 24 hours at that point is closed. My only reasoning is that just a 24 hour period still means you might miss out on that if you're not around that day - just shifting the issue from Sunday to Tuesday. Anyone left open gets 24 hours again over the next couple of days, and the handful of remaining go to the existing 10 minute closing on Sunday night. I wasnt trying to make it that complicated. Just post it Monday, and bid accordingly. 24 hours of no bids by the time stamps closes the player. Just keep it simple. Another league I'm in does it, and it works beautifully. Most players dont go past Wednesday or Thursday. It encourages more board activity, and also eliminates hard deadlines that cause issues. |
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Post by Philadelphia Phillies on Mar 27, 2023 15:33:07 GMT -6
It’s worth a thought. It’d be fun to actually have bidding matter during the week
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Post by Boston Red Sox on Mar 27, 2023 15:38:22 GMT -6
It definitely is fun. I had 3 players sniped from me during this first group because my internet went down from 9:50 EST to 10:05 EST. It sucked.
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Post by Boston Red Sox on Mar 27, 2023 15:40:47 GMT -6
Given how terrible DMB is with the disc timeline, we could try it out for the last group of this free agency period. Wait a week after Group 2 and give everyone a week notice or so to adjust to it.
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Post by Philadelphia Phillies on Mar 27, 2023 15:53:26 GMT -6
I would have definitely bid more for Clevinger if I could read a clock right.
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Post by Oakland Athletics on Mar 27, 2023 16:20:29 GMT -6
I am open to bidding through the week or whatever. I only bid like we do now because there is no other reason to bid before 8:54 PM CST on Sunday outside of throwing out joke bids.
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Post by Boston Red Sox on Mar 28, 2023 8:51:39 GMT -6
Commish? Anyone else with thoughts? Vote process or just give it a whirl?
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Post by Boston Red Sox on Mar 31, 2023 3:39:51 GMT -6
Buehler?
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Post by New York Mets on Apr 1, 2023 17:24:46 GMT -6
We can't change up the process in the middle of Free Agency this year, but I'm totally fine with posting a vote to decide what we want to do for future bidding. I think 24 hours with no bids seems like a very tight window, but I'm open to whatever. What's the exact proposal we have to post for a vote on a rule change?
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Post by Boston Red Sox on Apr 1, 2023 20:39:46 GMT -6
I mean, there are 12 of us, and we have 1 group after this week, and then a month to wait for a database. We couldn't just try it out?
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Post by Boston Red Sox on Apr 1, 2023 20:40:57 GMT -6
I tight window is the 8:55cst-9:00cst we have now I think. That's honestly the only time a bid matters.
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Post by Boston Red Sox on Apr 1, 2023 20:59:12 GMT -6
My proposal, in bold, along with some tiding of the wording since our inaugural free agency:
E. Free Agency Process
At the end of every season, players not under contract would be added to a tiered Free Agency list. The maximum contract length a team can offer is 4 years with minimum bid increments of $100K (all salaries are in $100K increments). Teams must include the years and annual value in their bid. Increasing the years would not improve the offer. At the end of the bidding period, the player will be awarded to the team with the team who offered the highest annual value. A team who re-signs a player will have a 25% hometown discount applied to their winning bid. A player signed in Free Agency cannot be traded until July 1st.
For our inaugural Free Agency, players have been scheduled into 3 tiers with 1 tier being bid on each week--opening on Monday and closing at 9 PM Central on Sunday.
If the last bid on a player was by 8:50 PM CST on Sunday night, then the player would close at 9:00 PM CST. If there's a bid at 8:51 PM CST, then the bidding will close at 9:01 PM CST if there are no other bids by that time. If there's a bid at 8:59 PM CST, then the bidding will close if there are no other bids by 9:09 PM CST. Free agents will be posted on the Monday of their determined tier, and their bidding clock will start. Teams may bid on players during this time. Once a player has no new bids for 24 hours, the team with the highest valid bid will be awarded the player. We go by timestamps of the posts on the forum and there is also now a live clock. As a reminder, you can put in several bids on a player--not just one. In order to improve your offer from another team's and be the highest bidder, you have to bid at least 100K more than the previous offer. You have to specify the years, but you can offer 1, 2, 3, or 4 years. The financial amount you're offering in your bid is the annual amount of the contract. Players not receiving bids during their initial free agency period, will be eligible for the DMB player draft, and in season free agency as normal.
Teams will be able to bid on someone even if they're at 50 players. However, they'll need to get under immediately if they win the player because that would take them over the limit. Teams can also bid more than the money they currently have available, but they would also need to get under the salary cap within an hour if they win the player and that takes them over the salary cap.
PLEASE DO NOT DELETE OR EDIT ANY POSTS IN THE BIDDING FORUMS! If you make a mistake, you need to leave the original post and create a new reply.
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Post by Boston Red Sox on Apr 1, 2023 21:02:38 GMT -6
I really do believe this will increase traffic during the week. It will also allow a larger window for GMs to check and see where their targeted players are at and increase the bid as necessary.
The Sunday time frame just is a tough thing for myself, and it seems like others.
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Post by New York Mets on Apr 2, 2023 14:09:11 GMT -6
Because we're not making a massive change to the FA bidding while we're in the middle of the process. Again, I have no problem with making changes that the league agrees on as a whole, but anything we vote on would be for changing the system next offseason--like we have with all other facets.
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Post by New York Mets on Feb 1, 2024 20:15:41 GMT -6
Does anyone have any thoughts about changing the Free Agency Process? I can put up a vote on what we discussed last year (above).
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