MuleFHL Free Agency Rules
After the final bid list update on the the 16th,
GM’s will have 4 days to match the best offer on their Restricted Free Agents.
All RFA’s whose “offer sheets” are not matched by 10 PM mountain time on
Thursday December 20th will go to the team holding the offer sheet,
and compensation will be awarded to the team losing the RFA. More on RFA’s and the bid list can be found
below.
Teams may offer UFA’s a contract
up to four years in length, with a yearly salary a maximum of three
times the player’s current yearly salary, with any sum of money for the signing
bonus. Newly added UFAs (Bryan Berard
etc.) will be assumed to have had a $1.2 million dollar contract last season. Anyone
can make an offer for an unrestricted free agent. No compensation will be sent
to the team losing the UFA.
Unrestricted Free Agents will go to the team
offering the best contract in terms of total value (length x yearly salary +
signing bonus).
Each team may sign a maximum of 5 unrestricted
free agents.
Schedule of compensation for MHFHL
restricted free agents:
If new pro contract equals / new
team must give old team
up to $500,000/year / a 3rd
round pick
(must be a pick from the 2002 or
2003 entry draft)
$501,000 to $900,000/year / a 2nd
round pick
(must be a pick from the 2002 or
2003 entry draft)
$901,000 to $2,000,000/year / a 1st
round pick + cash equal to 1 year of new contract
(must be a pick from the 2002 or 2003
entry draft)
$2,001,000 to $4,000,000/year /
two 1st round picks + cash equal to 1 year of new contract
(one pick must be from the 2002 or
2003 entry draft)
$4,001,000/year or higher / three
1st round picks + cash equal to 1 year of new contract
(one pick must be from the 2002 or
2003 entry draft)
If you don’t have the required
compensation, don’t make the offer. GM’s who make RFA offers that
they cannot back up with compensation will be fined.
Teams may offer a contract up to
four years in length, with a yearly salary a maximum of three times the
player’s current yearly salary.
Restricted Free Agents will also sign with the
team offering the best contract in terms of total value (length x yearly
salary). There are no signing bonuses for RFA’s. Again, the signing is contingent upon the RFA’s current team
either matching the offer or accepting the compensation.
RFA signing is unlimited, but again you must
have the compensation to be able to sign the player.
Free Agency will be handled via email.
To make an offer on any type of free agent, you
must send an email to emulerichard@shaw.ca
Use this format when making your offers.
Subj: [PLAYER NAME]
Body of message:
[TEAM NAME] offers [PLAYER NAME] [YEARLY SALARY]
per year for [TERM] years.
For example,
::Subj: Paul Laus
::Atlanta offers Paul Laus $500,000 per year for
4 years.”
Offers that do not have the player’s name in the
title of the email will be tossed out.
Offers where the message body does not match
this exact format will be tossed out. Do not send me emails listing the total
contract amount. Break it down exactly as I have written it out above.
Offers sent to the main league email will also
be tossed out.
A listing of the top bids for UFA’s and RFA’s
will be updated and published on the website daily. Get your bids in by 5 pm
mountain time to have them listed on that day’s update.
The first high offer on a free agent will be the
one that is accepted. For instance, if GM #1 offers $3 million/year for 3 years
on Thursday, and GM #2 offers the same bid on Friday, GM #1’s bid will stand as
the highest bid.
GM’s offering the same high bid for the same FA
on the same day will both be listed under that free agent. If, at the end of
free agency, more than one GM holds the high bid on a free agent, a coin flip
will determine who gets the FA (in the case of UFA’s) or who signs the FA to an
offer sheet (in the case of RFA’s).
That’s all.
If I missed anything, I’m sure it will be brought to my attention soon
enough, and an email explaining whatever caused confusion will be distributed.
Good luck.
Thanks to Feebs of the MHFHL for allowing me to use his Free Agent Rules as a strict guideline.