Post by Personnel Representative on May 12, 2011 11:02:36 GMT -5
Some important notes about UFA and UFA negotiations. For newbies, all UFA offers are sent through PMs to the Player Rep's inbox for consideration. When a free agent decides to sign, PR POSTS these in the Free Agent Signings section. You will not be notified of a signing prior to this posting. When a player decides to sign an extension, he will agree to terms with you via PMs with the PR, and you can post the extension in the extensions page yourself.
Welcome to UFA
What is it, and How Does it Work?
UFA means Unrestricted Free Agent. It means that the team the player is free and clear to sign with whoever the damn he pleases, for whatever the damn he pleases. This also means if he chooses not to sign in ManNHL, he can sign in Europe or whatever. So he doesn't HAVE TO accept crappy, low-ball offers (Hear that hockeyfan101?
).
Information:
AKA What to include
- Player Name
- Status ("UFA" in this case)
- Age
- Current Contract (mainly pay)
- Last seasons stats (GP-G-A-PTS- and +/- for fowards, GP-W-L-S%-GAA for goalies)
- New contract offer
- Terms of the deal (NTC, NMC, etc)
- For UFAs, write-ups mean A LOT. Do a good job of convincing this guy to sign with you and you could get a) a guy who would have otherwise signed elsewhere, and/or b) a discount. But be real about it. And remember there are 29 other teams competing with you for these FAs.
Format
AKA Requirements of the PM
- Player's name and the letters "UFA" in the subject line
- quote previous PMs (instead of clicking on "reply", click "quote")
- if you are submitting offers for more than one FA, offer each in separate PMs. Failure to do so can result in lost/ignored offers! Extensions can be done in one PM, though its usually easier to do separates.
Notes About Offers
AKA Additional Info you MUST know
- Remember to retract any offers you no longer wish to offer. Any offers for unsigned guys stays in my inbox (essentially forever), and the guy may otherwise sign at any time.
- Be patient. I generally receive many offers per player and may not reply to you.
- Please do NOT include the TOTAL value of a whole contract (e.g. "10M/year totalling 100M over 10 years"). JUST the per-year amounts please.
- Sometimes PR will mark offers as read before I read them for organizational purposes. ProBoards has a glitch where when this happens, our outbox will NOT be updated indicating I have opened your offer. Don;t worry about asking about the offer. There i a 99.999% chance I recieved it and opened it. No worries.
- unless otherwise noted in offers you send, I will always consider money amounts to be a per-year salary. So if I see 5M/3 years, it means 5 mil a year for 3 years, not 5 mil OVER 3 years.
- Unless otherwise negotiated, all offers are considered 1-way offers, meaning the player will need to clear waivers to be sent to the minors.
- Please have an updated roster page. It might help you, or it might hurt you, but you don;t want players requesting trades mid-season when you are trying to work other stuff out. Plus, lots of guys will be drawn to other guys for various reasons .
- if you send me an offer and I accept it, its considered signed and finalized. Similarly, if you accept an offer from me, its considered signed and finalized. If I accept, you cannot PM back and say, "actually, we withdraw that, and offer ___ instead".
- Remember, we do "either/or/or/or" offers here as well. Basically it means you can submit offers to fill a position without signing extra players you don;t want. In this case, the format is as follows:
a) Include the last name of each player in subject line (as best you can)
b) clarify how many you want (e.g. "I am looking to sign one of the following:")
c) prioritize by number
d) include full offers for each
e) players will not know or care about where they are on the priority list.
Notes About UFA
AKA Additional RFA Info you MUST know
- The only time players will be RFA in this league is after their FIRST contract. So when your draft pick's FIRST contract runs out, he is RFA. After that, he is a UFA. That way we don't have to deal with all the messy age/GP gibberish that exists in the real NHL.
- Again, you might be notified to up your offer, you might not. So always submit the best you are willing to offer!
Examples:
AKA How exactly to get the job done
Regular Offer
(Subject Line: Gretzky UFA)
Wayne Gretzky
Center
UFA
33
50 games, 40 goals, 50 assists, 1001 points
previous contract: 3M/5 years
offer: 4 years 5M
NTC
Gretzky will captain the Placeholders, and will be our starting centre. He also have Marty McSorely, and have placed offers to Jari Kurri, Mark Messier and Luc Robitaille in hopes of securing more familiar faces for Wayne to work with.
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"Either/or/or/or" Offer
(SUBJECT LINE: Traviss, Potvin, Brodeur UFAs)
The PR Placeholders would like to sign 1 (one) of the following goalies:
1. Justin Traviss
Goalie
26 Years old
no stats
12 years, 9M
NMC
- would be starter, is awesome. We love him. Etc.
2. Felix Potvin
Goalie
35 years old
no stats
2 years, 3M
Would fit in with age of team, etc.
3. Martin Brodeur
Goalie
43 years old
Dismal stats
1 year, 0.4M
Looking for a 3rd string backup, would play some supporting games maybe, would get to mentor young team in the "do nots" of hockey.
Welcome to UFA
What is it, and How Does it Work?
UFA means Unrestricted Free Agent. It means that the team the player is free and clear to sign with whoever the damn he pleases, for whatever the damn he pleases. This also means if he chooses not to sign in ManNHL, he can sign in Europe or whatever. So he doesn't HAVE TO accept crappy, low-ball offers (Hear that hockeyfan101?
).Information:
AKA What to include
- Player Name
- Status ("UFA" in this case)
- Age
- Current Contract (mainly pay)
- Last seasons stats (GP-G-A-PTS- and +/- for fowards, GP-W-L-S%-GAA for goalies)
- New contract offer
- Terms of the deal (NTC, NMC, etc)
- For UFAs, write-ups mean A LOT. Do a good job of convincing this guy to sign with you and you could get a) a guy who would have otherwise signed elsewhere, and/or b) a discount. But be real about it. And remember there are 29 other teams competing with you for these FAs.
Format
AKA Requirements of the PM
- Player's name and the letters "UFA" in the subject line
- quote previous PMs (instead of clicking on "reply", click "quote")
- if you are submitting offers for more than one FA, offer each in separate PMs. Failure to do so can result in lost/ignored offers! Extensions can be done in one PM, though its usually easier to do separates.
Notes About Offers
AKA Additional Info you MUST know
- Remember to retract any offers you no longer wish to offer. Any offers for unsigned guys stays in my inbox (essentially forever), and the guy may otherwise sign at any time.
- Be patient. I generally receive many offers per player and may not reply to you.
- Please do NOT include the TOTAL value of a whole contract (e.g. "10M/year totalling 100M over 10 years"). JUST the per-year amounts please.
- Sometimes PR will mark offers as read before I read them for organizational purposes. ProBoards has a glitch where when this happens, our outbox will NOT be updated indicating I have opened your offer. Don;t worry about asking about the offer. There i a 99.999% chance I recieved it and opened it. No worries.
- unless otherwise noted in offers you send, I will always consider money amounts to be a per-year salary. So if I see 5M/3 years, it means 5 mil a year for 3 years, not 5 mil OVER 3 years.
- Unless otherwise negotiated, all offers are considered 1-way offers, meaning the player will need to clear waivers to be sent to the minors.
- Please have an updated roster page. It might help you, or it might hurt you, but you don;t want players requesting trades mid-season when you are trying to work other stuff out. Plus, lots of guys will be drawn to other guys for various reasons .
- if you send me an offer and I accept it, its considered signed and finalized. Similarly, if you accept an offer from me, its considered signed and finalized. If I accept, you cannot PM back and say, "actually, we withdraw that, and offer ___ instead".
- Remember, we do "either/or/or/or" offers here as well. Basically it means you can submit offers to fill a position without signing extra players you don;t want. In this case, the format is as follows:
a) Include the last name of each player in subject line (as best you can)
b) clarify how many you want (e.g. "I am looking to sign one of the following:")
c) prioritize by number
d) include full offers for each
e) players will not know or care about where they are on the priority list.
Notes About UFA
AKA Additional RFA Info you MUST know
- The only time players will be RFA in this league is after their FIRST contract. So when your draft pick's FIRST contract runs out, he is RFA. After that, he is a UFA. That way we don't have to deal with all the messy age/GP gibberish that exists in the real NHL.
- Again, you might be notified to up your offer, you might not. So always submit the best you are willing to offer!
Examples:
AKA How exactly to get the job done
Regular Offer
(Subject Line: Gretzky UFA)
Wayne Gretzky
Center
UFA
33
50 games, 40 goals, 50 assists, 1001 points
previous contract: 3M/5 years
offer: 4 years 5M
NTC
Gretzky will captain the Placeholders, and will be our starting centre. He also have Marty McSorely, and have placed offers to Jari Kurri, Mark Messier and Luc Robitaille in hopes of securing more familiar faces for Wayne to work with.
-------------
"Either/or/or/or" Offer
(SUBJECT LINE: Traviss, Potvin, Brodeur UFAs)
The PR Placeholders would like to sign 1 (one) of the following goalies:
1. Justin Traviss
Goalie
26 Years old
no stats
12 years, 9M
NMC
- would be starter, is awesome. We love him. Etc.
2. Felix Potvin
Goalie
35 years old
no stats
2 years, 3M
Would fit in with age of team, etc.
3. Martin Brodeur
Goalie
43 years old
Dismal stats
1 year, 0.4M
Looking for a 3rd string backup, would play some supporting games maybe, would get to mentor young team in the "do nots" of hockey.
