new league. 2 spots left

[dave1959]

http://realnhlgm.proboards.com

Real NHL GM Official Rules:

Rules Subject to Change: for now these are the official rules.

15 Minute Rule

You are allowed to withdraw a bid/claim on a player within 15 minutes of the bid, but you must follow the previous post saying you withdraw your bid. If you delete it read the rule below!

You can't withdraw a bid from anytime after.

Deleting/Editing Posts:

Please if you make an offer in Free Agency do not delete or edit it. If you spell something wrong or something fix it in a following post, or ask a TAB to fix it.

If you are caught deleting an offer in free agency or a waiver claim you will be penalized a 2nd round pick in the next up coming draft. If you do not have a 2nd round pick, in that draft it will be the one after. If you have no picks, you will be docked 3M off of the salary cap!

Salary Cap

The salary cap for the upcoming season will be $75M that no GM at any time can exceed. If a GM does exceed the cap at any point, they will receive a 20% cap hit on the transaction that put them over the cap. Players that have been demoted to the minor leagues to create roster space still will count against the total salary cap until their contract expires or they are released or traded.

Roster Size/Starting Lineup

Each team must field a full roster at all times or be subject to disciplinary actions including cap hits and/or loss of draft picks. Each roster must contain at least 4C, 8W, 6D, 2G at all times, and no roster can exceed 24 active players at any one time.

Note that on Fantrax for fantasy purposes, you can only start 1 goalie per day. But you must roster at least 2 at all times, not including minors or prospects.

Players on your roster who have played 24 games or less before the 2014-15 season receive a contract of 250,000 and 4 years from their call up/placement on the roster. Entry Level deals are always 4 years long. (Unpaid prospects being called up)

Players that have been demoted and approved by TAB as well as players on the IR do not count towards a roster spot.

Amnesty Cuts

At the beginning of this league each team will receive 4 amnesty cuts. The GM may cut any 4 contracted players on their team without any cap penalties. These players will immediately go into UFA. Amnesty cuts may not be saved and if they are not used by the given amnesty cut deadline, they are lost. Teams are allowed to bid on their own amnesty cut players once they're in UFA

Contraction Drafts

Contraction draft rules and guidelines will be posted soon. TAB believes everyone will enjoy what we have decided to do for this.
There will be 6 teams contracted, for a total of 24 teams in this league. The following is how the players, prospects, and draft picks from these teams will be dispersed:

Contraction Draft #1:

This draft will be for the contracted teams unpaid prospects and 2014 1st, 2014 2nd, and 2014 3rd round draft picks.

The draft order will be randomized via 3rd party website and it will be 2 round snake draft. TAB will compile a list of prospects and teams draft picks that each team can choose from. Each GM will have 12 hours to make their selection or else their pick is skipped, same as the amateur draft. If a pick is skipped, that GM can make their pick at any time from the remaining pool of prospects and picks. Any unselected draft picks will simply be skipped in the amateur draft, and unselected prospects become UFA's

Contraction Draft #2:

This draft will be for the contracted teams roster players.

The draft order will again be randomized via 3rd party website and it will again be a 2 round snake draft. TAB will compile a list of all players with their current contracts for GM's to choose from. ALL PLAYERS TAKEN WILL HAVE THEIR REAL LIFE CONTRACTS AND CAP HIT APPLIED. Please keep that in mind when selecting players; you are inheriting their contracts.

Injured Reserve

In the event that one of your players is placed on the IR (injured reserve) by their real life NHL team, you have the option to place them on your own IR and open up a roster space. Each team will have unlimited IR spots. The IR player's salary still counts toward the cap.

Free Agency

Free Agency will begin each summer on a specified date by the TAB that will be determined when the off-season schedule is created. The free agent list will consist of players who are not re-signed by their teams, players who were released or waived and not claimed by another team, as well as CHL, NCAA and international free agents who become free agents in real life (No longer draft eligible). FREE AGENTS DO NOT NEED TO SIGN WITH A REAL LIFE TEAM IN ORDER FOR YOU TO SIGN THEM, however if you do sign them and they don't get a real life contract, you're still on the hook for their contract for the life of the contract.

We will have specific guidelines for free agent bidding:

First and foremost, bids can not exceed 4 years in length, and each successive bid must be at least $250,000 more than the previous bid to be considered a legitimate high bid.

The way to calculate your bid will be as follows: You add the amount of years with the contract amount to give you your "point total."

Ex) Rangers offer 4 years @ $1 million = 5 pts
Ex) Rangers offer 2 years @ 3.25 million = 5.25 pts

The highest bid after 24 hours without a new bid wins the Free Agent.

Ex. Islanders bid 2,000,000 on Michael Ryder
Bolts follow that with a bid of 2,500,000
*Once the Bolts bid has gone uncontested for 24 hours the Bolts would win Ryder...

We will also have a minimum bid for each player based on the amount of years of NHL experience they have. A full NHL season is defined as 25 or more games in a season (barring injury) for a skater or 13 or more games for a goalie. The amount of years is from the beginning of the player's career, and not the beginning of this league.

The minimum bids are as follows:

0 years: $250,000 (no seasons of 25+ games)
1 year: $300,000
2-3 years: $450,000
4-6 years: $500,000
7-9 years: $625,000
10+ years: $750,000

These amounts will be EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY!

NHL Entry Draft

Each season, we will hold an entry draft like the NHL. The order will be determined by reverse order of the preceding season's league standings and will only consist of players who are draft eligible and drafted in that season's draft ONLY.

The draft will consist of 3 rounds with the same order for each round and each team will have 12 hours to make their pick. If your pick is skipped, the next person will be allowed to make their pick, and so on down the line. You will still be allowed to make your pick at any time, but it will only be from the remaining players available.

Any player who was drafted in real life but not in our entry draft will be awarded to that team. They do not become free agents.

Only draft picks for the current and following 2 seasons can be traded. For now, that means 2014,2015,2016 picks

Real life future draft pick trades made before the start of this league are in effect! Refer to the draft pick tracking spreadsheet for verification of what picks a team has.

First Season (2014) Entry Draft

This first draft will be a little different. We will be drafting with the actual NHL draft order. The draft will be 3 rounds. Contracted teams draft picks through the first 3 rounds are part of the contraction draft, any of these picks not taken will simply be skipped. Keep in mind real life draft pick trades will be taken into account (ex: Ottawa acquired Bobby Ryan in exchange for a 2014 1st so Anaheim owns Ottawa's #10 overall pick in this league as well as real life). Same as regular amateur drafts, any players not drafted in this league will be property of the real NHL team that drafted them. Contracted team drafted prospects not taken here will be UFA's.

Trades

Any roster player, prospect, or draft pick that you own can be traded. When posting a trade, please include player's name, position, and any contract info [Player A, LW $1,000,000 (2015)]. If it's a prospect, all you need to do is post the player's name and position and put the word "prospect" in parenthesis after it [Player A, LW (prospect)]. If you are trading a draft pick, please include the year and round of the pick, as well as the team who the pick belongs to [2016 1st Round Pick (NYI)], or if the draft order has been determined, use the draft pick number [2016 1st Round Pick, #10 (NYI)].

Each trade must receive 3 votes of Approval or Denial bu TAB and voting members to be Approved or Denied! Also, PLEASE REFRAIN FROM POSTING IN A TRADE THREAD UNLESS YOU ARE ONE OF THE TEAMS INVOLVED OR ON THE TAB. If someone wants to create a discussion thread in the "Discussion Thread" forum, feel free and take all excess discussion about the trade there.

Salary retention has been discussed by TAB and for now will NOT be allowed in trades. In the future this will be discussed again.

Re-Signs

UFA
Any player who's contract expires at the end of the current season can be re-signed. The contract offers must fall in line with the free agency bidding guidelines, and must be approved by the TAB in the manor that trades are approved. You will post what you believe is a fair re-sign amount for the player, and the TAB will vote on whether or not it is fair value for said player. You will have 2 opportunities to re-sign the player, if you are unable to "reach an agreement" with the player, he becomes a free agent. You are allowed to bid on that player in FA.

RFA

We will not be using RFA in this league.

Call-Ups

Any prospect who is called up without any seasons with 25 or more NHL games played will receive a contract of $250,000 for 4 seasons (less 1 year for each 25+ GP NHL season). You must have the cap and roster space to make the move, which will be confirmed by the TAB before the call-up is approved-at which time you can add the player to your roster.

Send Downs

You can send down as many players to your minor league system as you'd like as long as your NHL roster is compliant with enough players. There are two ways to send a player down:

1) Waiver Pass - Each team will get 3 waiver passes per season. This is for players with 1 or more accrued NHL seasons. That player does not have to pass through waivers and gets sent directly to the minor leagues. Once you use your 3 waiver passes, all future players that are sent down for the rest of the season must go through waivers or be eligible to use the Rookie Rule.

2) Rookie Rule - This means the player has not accrues any NHL seasons, and can be sent down without passing through waivers and without using a waiver pass.

As with call-ups, please refrain from making roster moves until the request is approved by a TAB member. Any player that you send to the minor still counts towards your salary cap for the life of his contract and must be reflected on your roster page as "Paid Minors."

Waivers

You can place a player on waivers, but he can be claimed by any other team who is cap and roster space compliant within 24 hours of being put on waivers. If more than one team places a claim, the team with the lowest rank in the standings that week will win the player.

If the player is not claimed, there are two options you have. You can either send the player to the minors, and absorb the contract to open up a roster spot, or you can release the player with a 40% cap hit for the life of his contract. Please specify in your initial post whether you'd like him to be released or sent to the minors if he clears waivers and post the player's contract info as well.

Ex) Rangers wish to place Player A $1,000,000 (2015) with the intent to release if he clears for a cap hit of $400,000 (2014)

Ex) Rangers wish to place Player A $1,000,000 (2015) with the intent to demote to my minors if he clears.

KHL Issue

If a player leaves the NHL in the middle of a contract to join the KHL or another European league, their contract can be taken off the cap here. The current owner keeps the rights to that player for the length and term of their current contract. If the player returns to the NHL, their prior contract is put back on the books for the team that owns their rights. If the contract has expired before the player returns to the NHL, they are a UFA.

Team Pages

Each team will be required to keep a minimum of 3 pages: 1 for team roster/cap info, 1 for prospects and draft picks, and 1 for team transactions for that season.

Each roster page must contain all active players, all cap hits, all paid minors, total team salary and cap space.

Each prospect page must contain a list of prospects and a separate list of draft picks separated by draft year.

Transactions pages must contain trades, free agent signings with contracts, call ups and send downs with contracts, and waiver pass/RR requests with contracts.

Playoffs

Same as the real NHL:

The top 3 teams from each division, plus the 2 next best teams from each conference will make playoffs. Teams will be seeded 1-8 and will be reseeded each round; ex: 8 beats 1 and 2 beats 7 in the first round, 2 would play 8 in the next round.

[tyler]

Im a BBKL only guy.

[tyler]

However, i did sign up on the forum to check it out.

[Nick]

BBKL only full time in depth keeper league for me.

[kyuss]

BBKL only full time in depth keeper league for me.

yup, and imo the more bbkl guys get involved in other demanding leagues the worse for bbkl!

[bills09]

Bbkl or bust

[The BBKL Insider]

appreciate the offer, but 1 league for me to Dave.

[Lee]

I'd rather whole ass one league than half ass 2. Apologies.

[KapG]

Do appreciate the offer Dave but BBKL is the only one im ready to continue to commit to for the forseeable future, minus the yahoo leagues I run with fam and friends.

[Shoalzie]

Looks like fun but I don't think I'd have the time.

[Arian The Insider]

Ya I'd rather just half ass bbkl than quarter ass it and another league

[kimmer]

Id rather

[Bruyns]

As a member of other leagues I can say BBKL is different. The quality of GMs we have here is very high and activity is demanded. Most other leagues are nothing like this and might consume an hour or 2 a week total depending on how many PMs you want to send.

I was in the league that predated this new one and it lasted 3 years, but fell apart due to bad GMs in the beginning ruining their teams and bolting and then being unable to find active replacements for shit teams. I won the 2nd season and it was where I met the infamous Frank who the league turned on and booted him year 3. I've made more posts on here than I did in the other league in 3 years so it's a very different type of league.

[Arian The Insider]

Lol I wonder how many leagues have booted Frank

[The BBKL Insider]

Lol I wonder how many leagues have booted Frank

i can only imagine a lot.

I was in a yearly yahoo league with frank (it's how i met him) and he was booted from that. It wasn't even a keeper league lol

that guy must join every fantasy team on the face of the earth. Because we've all met him in other leagues.

[The BBKL Insider]

The BBKL has become the

The Band of Brothers Keeper League!