SEASON 2014-15 is here!

Please read this email carefully and save it for later.  I know it's a long one, but it has everything we have on our plate this summer... and it starts today.

Hey All!

New rates are loaded on the portal!

From Today to July 12th (Saturday evening) you will have to do the following;

Go over your players, check new rates and report any obvious errors by replying to this email (players rated "22" by mistake, players who should be rated way higher (asking for a revision), prospect with 10 AHL/NHL games not activated, etc)

-          Go over the unrestricted players list (Transactions/Unrestricted Free Agents) and MAKE SURE ONE OR MORE OF YOUR PLAYER(S) ARE NOT IN THE LIST, if it’s the case, REPORT IT.  Several leagues use the same rerates file, so it happens that players’ names can be spelled differently and when it’s the case 2 different players are created (example; Washington has Alex Ovechkin, rerates file might have him as Alexander Ovechkin, then we would have 2 Ovechkins, one with Washington and one in the UFA database, you are responsible to report your players found in the UFA database.  Also the contract extension might not be applied to a player, so he would be in the UFA list, report this as well.

-          Go over the unrestricted players list (Transactions/Unrestricted Free Agents) and look for your prospects and claim them, IF YOU DON’T YOU MIGHT LOSE HIM/THEM, it’s your responsibility.  After claiming them, you can ask the league (or not) to deactivate those who haven’t played 10 NHL games last year and leave them as prospects.  Check carefully for your prospects as well, sometimes names a spelled differently, for example Matt Dumba (Matthiew Dumba).

IF THIS IS NOT DONE BY JULY 12TH, YOU LOSE YOUR TEAM ... PLAIN AND SAMPLE.  Sorry but if you don't do this, you just don't care, so you don't belong here ;-)

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- For those who need one or 2 coach(es), you can start bidding on coaches on July 9th (Transactions/coaches).  (max $2 mils per season, offers over $2 millions will be deleted and you won't be able to make an offer to the same coach).

- Trades re open July 14th (Sunday evening midnight ET). Until the draft at the end of the month, you can trade all picks in the next 2 years, after the draft we fall back to the other rule.

- UFA/RFA market and contract extensions open July 15 (Monday evening midnight ET)

 UFA (Transactions/unrestricted free agents)   and RFA (Transactions/ Restricted Free Agents)players (scroll to the bottom to see goaltenders).


When you go check UFA and RFA, its possible certain players already got an offer, click the second tab (UFAs/RFAs with Offers)  24 hours after the first offer made to a player, you won't be allowed to make an offer so act fast, the player will select the best 3 offers and move to the deciding section (3rd tab) for another 24 hours. If you are among the 3 finalists, you can still edit your offer.  Portal will select between offers, 70% for the best offer, 30% for the second one and 10% for the least best offer.

Remember, all contracts of 2$ mil + per season, players can't be sent to the minors, NHL only.


If you make an offer to a RFA, you need to have the picks accordingly to the chart as a compensation in case his former team does not match your offer.


$1,110 000 or below    - None
Over $1,110 000 to $1,700 000  - Third-round choice
Over $1,700 000 to $3,350 000  - Second-round choice
Over $3,350 000 to $5,050 000  - First-round and third-round choice
Over $5,050 000 to $6,700 000  - First-round, second-round and third round choice
Over $6,700 000 to $8,400 000  - Two first-round choices, one second- and
one third round choices
Over $8,400 000  - Four 1st round picks

so for example, if you make an offer of $4 million per season to a RFA, you will need one 1st round pick and one 3rd pick in the next 2 draft years.  The team owning the player will have 2 (two) days to match the offer. The team acquiring the player will decide what picks are being sent to the other team in case they have several picks available in a specific round.


NOTE 1: Team owning RFA players (who are testing the market on July 15th) can NOT trade them unless they match the offers these players will receive.

NOTE 2: As we speak, portal shows ALL the UFA/RFA under the UFA section.  We might have to do it that way.  If it's the case all player 27 yo or less and still link to a team are RFAs.  For example, if you look at Cody Franson, he's 27 yo or less and when you click on him, it shows he's with the Wild, so he's a RFA.



Remember, if you acquire a UFA player via a transaction, you'll only have 2 attempts to sign him, not 3.

- You can still buy out contracts but at a full rate (100%).

- You can submit position change by emailing me with the link where we can see the player assigned at that position (it has to be one of the link we have in the league's rules).

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Financial system is still on this season, this is easy money. Team's financial situations is way better now in the league so we will change the finance settings so it's generating less money, that way money received through your participation will still be very important.

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-Regular season: submit roster/line up at least once a week (between Sunday 7 PM ET and the
next one): $ 300k (season’s potential: $8.1 M).
-Submit in time team’s awards at the end of the season: $500k
-Vote for the All Star game: $1 M.
-Vote for the league’s awards at the end of the season - $1.5 M.
-Submitting an article on the portal (French or English): $400k. Real article, 2-3 lines won’t
make it ;-). The league pays a maximum of 2 articles per month, up to a maximum of 7 for the
year. (This starts in October only)

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Get ready for the draft and pre-season, remember you need enough players; goaltenders, RW, LW, C and D to form 2 teams... so make sure you have enough players for each positions.  You can't build a team with players rated "22", they can be used as spares when you have too many injuries but it should be exceptional.  Strongly strongly suggest you have at least 5 goaltenders.  If you only have 4, and simming is blocked because one of them is injured and you only have 3, you'll be fined as explained in the rules.

Some teams have less then 35 players right now and are below $35 M on their salary cap, remember the floor is $51M this year.  I'm not gonna babysit these GMs this summer, they need to be ready for the preseason with full line up and complying to the salary cap rules.

Salary cap is $69M in 2014-15, before the pre season, you can go up to $ $75.9 M (10% over).

Remember buy outs and bonus signatures count toward your salary cap.  In the next few days, I'll add/update these numbers on your team finance page.  I'll also add soon all the bonus $$$ you earned last year for your participation.


Draft
Monday July 28th - 7 PM ET - Rounds 1 and 2
Tuesday July 29th - 7 PM ET - Rounds 3-4-5.

DRAFT IS MANDATORY, you have to be present, or send a list to the league or prepare your list on the draft page.

GMs who have draft picks and who won’t be present to the draft and won’t take dispositions for
the draft (create list, ask somebody else to take care of it for them) will be fined.
First evening (rounds 1 and 2) - $4 M
Second evening (rounds 3-4-5) - $3 M
Of course, a GM who doesn’t have any pick left doesn’t have to show up at the draft.


Members of the trade committee: Paul (Buf), Steeve (Det), Matt (Ducks), Mike (Tor) and Pascal (NYR)

6 teams are currently under the trade committee supervision; NJ, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Nashville, Winnipeg and Minnesota.  The trade committee is there to protect new GMS and their team so they don't destroy their future and /or giving valued assets for doubtful prospects/picks/career Ahlers..etc 

all signatures, buyouts, declined trades, players on waivers, position changes, etc  on www.simm.fra.co.  You will also found some good post with helpful tips.


Things we will do differently.
- From now on, a player who rejected all contract offers will automatically becomes UFA on July 1st (he'll still provide a list where he would accept to be traded because that's how the portal is made, but no matter what, they will become UFA and if traded to another team, any extension contract signature would be declined)

- It will cost more to resign players, we will change the % given when you submit offers to your players.

With those 2 modifications we expect to have way more interesting players on the UFA market every year and it'll easier for teams to rebuild.

- The league might decline trades even for teams who are not under the trade committee supervision, especially teams who did benefit from the special draft this summer.  We released players to help them this summer and several GMs were not pleased with this, so there's no way we gonna just let them make stupid trades.

- we will sim with the 1.5 version this year.


We now expect you guys to be back full time, we didn't really care in June, but now we are back in business, reply to ALL MESSAGES within 48 hours!  Non active GMs will be replaced.
 
You don't have to put your everyday email address in the sim client, but make sure I do have it in case we need to reach you.  If we just can't contact you, even during summer time, we might just lose your team.


Would be a good idea to over the league's rules again...

Too much stuff to remember for this email, I probably forgot something, so you can expect more emails ;-)

Email me with any questions you may have,

Steeve

Steeve Cyr

You have until Saturday evening to claim your players/prospects from the Unrestricted Free Agents list, there's still several majors prospects that have not been claimed by their GMs!

SEASON 2014-15 is here!
SEASON 2014-15 is here!

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Steeve Cyr up

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Steeve Cyr

I forgot to mention... no contract extension before July 15th.

SEASON 2014-15 is here!
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Steeve Cyr please also wait till the 15th to add players positions.

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