I took a smattering of different players to show how it would work. Overall I love the results
Weber would not sign under this structure until he has signed a new NHL deal because he is on his ELC (like Phaneuf would have been). IF he wasnt signed to a new NHl deal by the time our new season started, he would get a 1 year deal based on his OV rating. (at 75 it would be 2 mil).
This keeps the young guys a bit lower, and the vets a big higher, which is generally appropriate.
You will still see a few bargains (Budaj for instance), though they will be few and far between. If we limit the amount of presignings and longterm contacts this is an easy to use, and easy to manage system. It will take alot of strategy by the GMs, does value cash, but also reflects the NHL. =
A few guidelines though
1. A player may not be resiged as an RFA while on his NHl entry level deal, in that case he will wait until he signs a new deal in the NHL before his BRHL2 contract is renegotiated via arbitration, anew deal, or an RFA offer.
2. In the scenario where a player is up for his BRHL2 contract and the season begins before he has resigned in the NHL, he will sign a 1 year deal, based on his BRHL OV rating. (Only applicable to NHL players on their ELC)
3. To avoid teams locking all players up to longterm deals, they may only sign two RFA's per season to 5 and 4 year deals.
4. Teams may only pre-sign 3 players per team as RFA's during the season. The rest will negotiate in the offseason, to allow themselves to possibly be slotted with a new deal in the NHL.
5. Signing Bonuses can account for 10% of the annual salary, and is not charged against the cap.
6. RFA qualifying rights are a thing of the past, you automatically maintain the qualifying rights for your players. If you choose not to sign them based on their contract value on the spreadsheet, they will test the RFA waters as normal.
7. Any changing the formulas by the GM will result in arbitrary fines handed out by the commishes. We double check everything anyway, dont try to pull one on us
8. You may begin signing your RFA's now, lets see who read the rules and who didn't by how many you offer.
If you do not have Excel. 1 - Download the sheet 2 - Go to Google Docs (To the right, and under Communicate, show & share ) 3 - Upload the sheet and enjoy.
If you need further help with this, contact Eric or Bryce
-- Edited by Eric_Isles at 00:45, 2008-02-22
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As you can see from the examples, all you enter is the player name, salary, overall and age. The sheet will calculate your figures. On the spreadsheet you put in your SB you are offering under the appropriate contract length and submit that to me.
Email your offers (with spreadsheet attached) to me at bnshuck@yahoo.com I will guarantee a response each night leading up to the trade deadline.
Thats an example of WHY players on their ELC will wait till they sign a new deal. Stings for a team that has a Phaneuf like player (ahem ME) but its realistic
looks pretty sweet though takes the Drury-Bergeron-Savard-Pominville like contracts that we have in brhl2 right now :) :) to bad eric didnt have this last year hahah just dawging u erica..
Two questions I've got since plugging my players into the formula. Minor questions...
1.) What do we do when there is a player who's not currently signed in the NHL but is rated. My example is Jonas Johansson. Hes a minor leaguer for us playing in the AHL without an NHL deal. Do we just use the rating scale?
2.) Petteri Nokelainen is listed as 20 years old and his contract is up so I was entering him but the scale doesnt go as low as 20 years old on the "charts" tab of the document so it can't draw up any numbers.
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