WHA Rules
Below are the rules for the WHA. If you break a rule, you will receive a strike. Three strikes and you are out. This is for players, owners, and coaches.
- Strike 1: Fined (Amount depending on severity)
- Strike 2: Suspension (Length depending on severity)
- Strike 3: Banishment (NO QUESTIONS ASKED!)
There's no excuses. You have been forwarned.
General
- Respect the Commish and Owners.
- There will be 15 games for each team in the 2005 season. The games will be simmed on Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday.
- The WHA runs on the Hockey League Commishioner game.
- If you can't get your password from the message board, E-Mail The Commish and request for them to give you a password.
- You must get a player's permission before changing their position. You will always be able to switch the position of any default players.
Players
- Get signed to a team.
- Do player updates to get better.
- Help out the league and your player by recruiting, becoming a grader, or becoming a magazine contributor.
Coaches
- Do player updates to get better.
- Sign on a team.
- Set Team Lineups.
- Do anything else that the owner allows you to do.
Owners
- Sign Players and a coach.
- Set Ticket Prices.
- Trade when you can.
- Abide by the Salary Cap.
- Keep at least the minimum roster requirements:
- Center: 1
- Left Wing: 1
- Right Wing: 1
- Defensemen: 2
- Goalie: 1
Contracts
- $30 mil salary cap.
- Can't sign players for more than 6 years.(w/out contract extension option)
- Can't sign a player for less than $2 mil, but you can sign them for as much as you want as long as you have cap room.
- Can have some contract options:
- Contract Extension (Extend contract by 1 year)
- No Trade Clause (Can't be traded unless player waivers the clause)
- Playoff Bonus (Earns extra for team making the playoffs. Effects Team Finances, not Salary Cap.)
- Finals Bonus (Earns extra for team making the Finals. Effects Team Finances, not Salary Cap.)
- MVP Bonus (Earns extra for earning the MVP award. Effects Team Finances, not Salary Cap.)
- No Franchise Tag Clause (When the player becomes a FA, the team the player was on cannot make a bid for the player in that year.)
Team Finances
- Ticket Prices
- Upper Seating: Between $1 and $10.
- Lower Seating: Between $15 and $30.
- Luxuray Seating: Between $60 and $100.
- Using Team Finances
- Sign a Coach: Varies
- Player Bonuses: Varies
- Add Upper Seating: $500,000 (adds 200 seats)
- Add Lower Seating: $1,000,000 (adds 100 seats)
- Add Luxuray Seating: $50,000,000 (adds 50 seats)
- Relocate Team: $5,000,000 (Includes Renaming and New Logo)
- Rename Team: $1,000,000 (Includes New Logo)
- New Logo: $250,000
Fan Support
- Fan Support will start out at 75% for each team.
- Ways Fan Support Increases
- by 1% when the team wins or ties a game.
- by 2% when the team wins 5 or more games.
- by 2% if the team has a winning season.
- by 2% if the team makes the playoffs.
- by 3% if the team makes the finals.
- by 3% if the team wins the finals.
- ways Fan Support Decreases
- by 1% when the team loses a game.
- by 2% when the team loses 5 or more games.
- by 2% if the team has a losing season.
- by 1% if the team doesn't make the playoffs.
- by 1% if the team doesn't make the finals, but makes the playoffs.
