UFA & RFA Offers

[Personnel Representative]

Some important notes about RFA and UFA negotiations. For newbies, all UFA/RFA offers are sent through PMs to the Player Rep's inbox.

Information:
AKA What to include
- Player Name
- Status (UFA, Extension, RFA, etc)
- Age
- Current Contract (mainly pay) if there is one
- New contract offer
- Link to last seasons stats page (if there is one - check archive)
- Terms of the deal (NTC, NMC, etc)
- Also, for UFAs write-ups can make a difference, If you feel you have a valid reason for offering a person a certain pay (reduced or what have you) and you want to explain it, I will listen.

Format
AKA Requirements of the PM
- Player's name in the subject line
- quote previous PMs (instead of clicking on "reply", click "quote")
- if you are submitting offers for more than one UFA, 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
AKA Additional Info you should 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.
- Every player signed comes with a 15-game (or 1 season - which ever comes first) NTC. This avoids teams signing players JUST to trade them, as often happens in sim leagues.
- 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.
- 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, as I said in c-box, lots of guys will be drawn to other guys for various reasons .
- Currently, in this league, ALL signings count towards cap - so sign what you need
- 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.


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 UFA)

The PR Placeholders would like to sign 1 of the following:

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.

[Personnel Representative]

May 2 Update: 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.

[Anaheim Ducks]

May 2, 2011 15:25:00 GMT -5 Personnel Representative said:

May 2 Update: 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.

Very good idea.

Mind you, that is not very good for me, I wish you would've said so yesterday, that way I would've offered more than 2 year deals.

[xx - Former Penguins-xx]

May 2, 2011 15:53:34 GMT -5 Anaheim Ducks said:

May 2, 2011 15:25:00 GMT -5 Personnel Representative said:

May 2 Update: 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.

Very good idea.

Mind you, that is not very good for me, I wish you would've said so yesterday, that way I would've offered more than 2 year deals.

[Personnel Representative]

May 3, 2011 - Minor Clarification: Just to be clear, 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 this". It's DONE. Just to be clear.