MAIN IDEA
A Group of Elite Fantasy managers become a general manager of an NHL Franchise and try to win a Stanley Cup, all while trying to balance the budget and build for the future.
CATEGORIES
G, A, PTS, PPP, +/-, PIM, GWG, W, SV%, SO
POSITIONS
C,RW,LW,D,D,UTI,G
2 goalies appearances per week are needed to qualify for goalies stat categories
PROSPECTS
Each year you will have the rights to a first round rookie selection and a 2nd rounder, you can trade these at any time during the season...you can only choose players that were originally drafted in the past years NHL ENTRY DRAFT. First rounders will be given a $3/4 year deal, 2nd Rounders...$1/3 year deals
You can never send any NHLer to your prospects camp/farm system...you can only trade for other prospects or draft prospects from the REALITY ENTRY DRAFT...when calling up prospects you must post your transaction on the transaction board, and then the contract will be added to your salary cap....DO NOT PICK THE PROSPECT up on Yahoo until you have decided to pick up there contract
FREE AGENCY
When A Players contract expires at the end of a season, he will become a free agent. The General Manager offering the most generous contract will sign that player, although the original team will have one last chance to match that offer, if they match it, the free agent stays with his original team.
Throughout the year you can also bid on free agents that do not have a contract or that have been waived by a team, these bids last for a week, at the end of the week the highest bidder recieves that player.
WAIVERS: You can never go over 20 men on your main roster, but if you want to you can still sign free agents. You will then need to release the ammount of players on to waivers to get back to 20. You can re-sign your waived players at any given time, unless another team hasn''t already picked up that player. You can have up to 10 players on waivers at any given time.
HOW DO I PICK UP WAIVED PLAYERS?: On the Message board you will see a message stating WAIVED PLAYERS, just reply to that thread with whom your adding to your roster.
SALARY CAP/CONTRACTS
Your Salary Cap will be $80 million, this is how you will spend your first 64.5$$$ ... The draft will consist of each round giving out a certain contract... here's the rundown....
1st Round: $10, 1yr
2nd Round: $8 , 2yr
3rd Round: $6.5, 3yr
4th Round: $5, 4yr
5th Round: $4, 4yr
6th Round: $3.5, 1yr
7th Round: $3, 3yr
8th Round: $3, 2yr
9th Round: $2.5, 1yr
10th Round: $2, 5yr
11th Round: $1.5, 2yr
12th Round: $1.25, 3yr
13th Round: $1.25, 4yr
14th Round: $1, 1yr
15th Round: $1, 2yr
PROSPECT DRAFT
1st Round: $4, 3yr
2nd Round: $1, 3yr
***IMPORTANT*** You draft 15 men....And the roster limit is 20 men, so you can fill those 5 spots either through FREE AGENCY or TRADES, meanwhile staying at or under the cap
During the regular season you will earn 2 points for each category you win and 1 for each category you tie. If there is any ties in the standings or in the playoffs...the tie breaker is h2h meetings followed by Wins, then Division Record.
All contracts will be frozen.....Unless a player that has another year left on his contract and then retires, that the contract is whiped clean off your cap, if he has more then one year left your shit out of luck
Every week there will be Free Agent Bidding...from Monday to Wednesday you nominate players, the rest of the week until the Saturday Midnight deadline you spend laying bids on those players. At the deadline if there are still more then 1 manager interested in that player, you will have to each submit a secret bid, with the higher bid recieving that player. The highest dollar ammount wins over the highest contract length ammount
CONTRACT RULES:
STANDINGS
There will be 4 divisions consisting of 5 teams each, and 2 conferences consisting of 10 teams each. 6 teams in each conference will make the playoffs, with the 4 division winners getting byes in the first round.
WHAT IF THERE's A LOCKOUT?
FREE AGENT BIDDING
Any player you win for $1 or under can only be signed to a maximum of 1 year
Any player you win between the ammount of $1.25 and $2.5 can only be signed to a maximum of 2 years
Any player you win between the ammount of $2.25 and $4 can only be signed to a max of 3 years
Any player you win between the ammount of $4.25 and $6 can only be signed to a maximum of 4 years.
Any player you win for $6.25 and up can be signed to a max of 5 years
