RESTRICTED FREE AGENT DESIGNATIONS & FUTURE FRANCHISE PLAYER AUCTION
 

As for the RFA rule:


Teams have until tonight to designate (1) RFA. Again this only applies to:
Hilton Head, Lake Placid, Kauai, Chicago, Denver, Memphis, Shem Creek & Columbus

This only applies to:
Hilton Head, Lake Placid, Kauai, Chicago, Denver, Memphis, Shem Creek & Columbus

The public auction starts now but on a 24-hour clock. So if a guy gets bid on and no one bids on him for 24 hours, you get him at that price. The bidding period ends with the Friday night sim with all offers at that point final.

EXAMPLE POST
 

DENVER
RFA: Jean-Claude Andre (MR)

FFP: SP Dave Ribic, Wabash Warriors ($12 million)
SP D.J. Miller, Casper Ghosts ($10 million)

It's an example post, but it's actually Denver's opening FFP bids and an RFA (on a guy that we're going to decline to match...but just wanted to show an example anyway)

To clarify, an RFA has to be guy who'll be a free agent this upcoming FA period. Not some future guy who you'll RFA later.

Memphis should be able to jump into this now - Derek Campbell just retired, so I don't have a franchise player any more.

Sweet. Sorry. Memphis too!

Just to clarify, FFP guys get Year 1 at the bid. What do they make in years 2-10? League min? That initial bid?

One year at bid. Years 2-10, they're like the old FRANCHISE guys. Uncapped/deal at league minimum.

Kauai RFAs 2B Takeo Takaki

mostly because he's Japanese.

I could've sworn I posted my FFP bid a couple of hours ago, but apparently not.

Memphis bids $15 million on SP Dave Ribic.

Denver bids $20 million on SP Dave Ribic.

Columbus bids $22 million on SP Dave Ribic
Columbus bids $9.5 million on SP Manny Torres

If we're not allowed to have two bids (based on DEN's first bids of both Ribic and Miller), then Ribic is the only one.

You can have multiple bids, so long as you have the cap space. Can bid on as many FFPs as you want right now.

Memphis bids $22.5 million on SP Dave Ribic.

Denver bids $25 million on SP Dave Ribic.

Kauai bids $27 million on SP Dave Ribic.

Denver bids $28.75m on SP Dave Ribic.

Kauai bids $30m on SP Dave Ribic.
Kauai bids $9.5m on CF D.J. Maul

Unfortunately, we can't bid on Maul. He turned 17 before the FA period and thus is ineligible. I wanted him too. :) If only this rule had come into effect a year earlier we could've all run up the money on him. Only players who were 16 and under at the start of FA are eligible for FFP.

Instead, you're just gonna have to suck for Darth Maul.

Denver bids $35 million on Dave Ribic.

boooo okay.

Kauai bids $9.5m on Lusala Chaga
Kauai bids $9.5m on Wyatt Ball
Kauai bids $10m on Manny Torres

Columbus bids $40 million on Dave Ribic

Boom goes the dynamite.

Memphis bids $12m on Lusala Chaga.

Kauai bids $15 million on Lusala Chaga.

Just for the record, I was trying to debate whether teams should be able to withdraw bids. And I've decided bid withdrawals are allowed. If it happens before the deadline (which is tomorrow night at midnight with exports) then the next highest bid gets the guy at the lowest qualifying bid they put in (to win the guy.)

For example: Say, New York bids $50m on a guy and then withdraws and before that, Minnesota bid $45m and New York had bid $40m and Minny bid $39.5m then they get him for that price.

Basically the idea is to prevent a team from running up the bidding on a guy and then dropping out.

Dammit, that's my dick move....:devil:

Denver withdraws bid on SP D.J. Miller (Casper)

Just a clarification from earlier, the deadline is at 12 AM EST Saturday (Friday night's sim), correct?

Yeah, it's Friday night's sim. So we have a whole 'nother day of this. Heh.

In the future, can we set the time a bit earlier? In this instance, if Ribic gets a larger bid at 11:55, I'll probably be asleep. Would 10 EST be a good compromise? I'm looking in the direction of you guys on the West Coast.

EDIT: I'm just referring to the auction deadline, not the sim time.

Hmm...good point.

We can do whatever we want. Let's set the auction deadline to 10pm eastern time. That's 7pm on the west coast. Wolvie in Hawaii is always going to be screwed..but at least that way it's essentially close of business everywhere plus an hour or two to go home and make some magic happen.

:(

Yeah this is fine by me. I have no issues with 10pm Eastern. Usually I'm either at work or at home and able to do whatever I need to in time.

CURRENT LEADING BIDS
Kauai: SP Lusala Chaga ($15m), 2B Wyatt Ball (SLOT)
Columbus: RF Alex Ortega (SLOT), SP Ted Maloney (SLOT)
Chicago: SP Dave Ribic ($54m), SP Manny Torres ($14m)

Denver bids $48m on SP Dave Ribic

Columbus bids $12 million on Manny Torres, slot on RF Alex Ortega and slot on Ted Maloney

Chicago bids $54 million on Dave Ribic

Chicago also bids $14 million on Manny Torres

Just FYI Wyatt Ball is a 2B

Denver bids $60m for Ribic.

Columbus withdraws bid on Ted Maloney and bids 16 million on Manny Torres

Washington bids nothing on nobody :)

Kauai bids 10m on Alex Ortega

Columbus bids 12 million on Alex Ortega

Memphis bids $10M on Wyatt Ball and slot on Victor Jimenez.

Kauai bids 15m on Alex Ortega

Columbus bids 16 million on Alex Ortega

Kauai bids 20 m on Wyatt Ball

11m on Ball

WINNING BIDS, 1860 FFP AUCTION
Kauai: SP Lusala Chaga ($15m), 2B Wyatt Ball ($20m)
Columbus: RF Alex Ortega ($16m)
Memphis: RF Victor Jimenez (SLOT)
Denver: SP Dave Ribic ($60m)

I don't think I missed anyone here.