Re-Signing one of your players BEFORE free agency
The goal here is to give teams an ability to retain a free agent by re-signing them before free agency starts. But there is a risk as you are exposing the player to the free agent market if an opposing team places a silent bid above the original team’s bid (which will be public).
The details… A GM would have the ability to possibly re-sign ONE of their free agents. Whoever they choose is up to them. There will be a 24 hour process whereby a GM lists ONE free agent from their team in a thread and a $ amount for the bid (I want GM’s to PM me their re-sign player, not post in thread, I will post the list at the start of the 24 hour process. This way, teams don’t have an advantage for not posting their player until the end).
The 31 remaining teams will then have 24 hours to react by PMing me a silent bid (normal free agency rules apply with respect to a bid amount being beaten and you must be under the cap of course). If nobody places a higher bid than the original team, that player is re-signed at the amount listed. If another team places a higher bid than the original team, if it’s the HIGHEST bid, that bid remains on the player at the start of free agency. From there, normal free agency rules apply. NOTE: The team with the highest bid at the start of free agency still has the maximum amount of bids available for free agency. In other words, it doesn’t count against them (so yes, if there are five bids maximum, a team could possibly have SIX if they are leading a bid on a player). Since the voting is silent (where I’m getting PM’s) teams will be kept in the dark with respect to who has the highest bid until the 24 hour process is over.
Also, the resign process... teams are limited to resigning (potentially) ONE player per team. Similarly, bidding teams are limited to ONE BID per team. That means you can only bid on ONE player during this 24 hour resign period. You don't get to bid on five players... you don't get to bid on as many as you want... just one... If a team, other than the original team, leads the bidding process on a player, that team starts the free agency period as the leading team. Obviously, if the original team has the highest bid, they retain/resign that player at that amount. After the resign period ends, I will post who bid the highest and which players are resigned by their original teams and which players are headed to free agency. The time of the highest bid made by an opposing team is exactly 12:01AM EST on March 3rd. Any team, including the original team, can then bid on that particular player (normal free agency rules apply from that point on).
Another NOTE: A re-signed player CANNOT be traded later.
This player would not be available for any type of franchise or tender offer. The player could be either a UFA or RFA. Also, you can choose NOT to expose any of your players to this re-sign process. Although, I would think you’ll want to do this, if for no other reason than to re-sign a “lesser” free agent that you want to keep.
To clarify a question regarding six vs five bids with the resigning process...
Also question regarding the resigning of FA's....
Q: So I get that we basically get a 6th bid slot if you dont restructure one of your own and you have the highest bid on someone elses FA. So for arguments sake I have a 7M bid on Player B (Player A is busy) as we enter FA. I still have my 5 other bids which I use on players 1-5. Someone then bids up Player B. Do I still have a 6th bid slot to go and beat it?
A: The answer is no. You only have a 6th bid if you enter free agency period with the highest bid on a "resign" player. Once you are outbid on that player, you are back to a max of 5 bids. So you'll want to plan accordingly.
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