GroupThink House Rules

[Bee]

Thought it might be a good idea to repost this. There may be a couple things that need clarified.


House Rules:

1. Must take 60 players to training camp each season.

2. Must keep at least 53 players on the roster all season long.

3. Players can not start out of position at the beginning of the season.

4. At the start of the career, all players under contract on the team must be offered a new contract or released.

5. No one can sim games except for the specified simmer for that week. That person can only sim once, the official results will be obtained from that sim.

6. When offering a contract to a player requesting a signing bonus, we must either:

- offer him exactly the deal he demands, or
- offer him a signing bonus at least as large as the largest yearly salary.



Trading:
1. Draft-pick-for-draft-pick deals can only be initiated during the draft. (plus potentially more restrictions)

2. We can accept any AI-initiated trade, if it meets a fairness test (perhaps adding 7th round picks from both teams?).

3. We can only make the offer to the number 1 team interested in player when shopped around.

4. After we shop a player, we either have to trade him or cut him.

5. We can only make 1 trade offer per trade. If that is rejected, we must cut the player.


Free Agents:

1. All offers to free agents who are new to the team must come prior to week 1.

2. "Fan Favorites" or "Idolized" players from our team must be offered (at the minimum) their requested contract in week 1 of the 20-step process.

3. We may tender an offer to re-sign any of our free agents at any time.

4a. Franchise tag can be used as often as we like, but the Franchise Player must be signed at the very beginning of the 20-step process.

OR

4b. Franchise tag must be used as in NFL -- either as a one year tender offer or the tag must apply to the player for the length of the signed contract.


4. FA's signed outside of the 20-Step Process can only be signed to a one-year deal.

Renegotiations:
1. Renegotiation allowed only in last year of contract in the case of "Classy Veterans"

"Skydog's definition of "classy veterans":
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1. In the 10th year or later of his career.
2. Has played 5 full seasons on my team.
3. Has a Loyalty rating >75.
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2. No "classy veteran" whose Play For Winner Rating is 60 or above can be renegotiated with following a season when the team didn't make the playoffs. He can only be re-signed via the 20-Step Process.

3. No "classy veteran" who is unhappy or has a conflict with a teammate can be renegotiated. He can only be re-signed via the 20-step process.

[QuikSand]

Here's one that I like, and plan to follow as well:

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When offering a contract to a player requesting a signing bonus, we must either:

- offer him exactly the deal he demands, or
- offer him a signing bonus at least as large as the largest yearly salary.

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I think this is an effective guard against "backloaded" salaries, and also against too many free cuts down the road - quality players really shoudn't be too attracted to offers without money up front, and the game doesn't seem to recognize that very well.

[Bee]

Good rule, I went ahead and added it to the first post.

[Bee]

bump so I don't have to keep changing pages to look the rules.

[Bee]

bump