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Originally Posted by ChiefAshhole20
How do you know if any of your players are FA eligible?
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When we introduce the system, you will assign contract terms to your current players, with time periods ranging from 1 to 7 years. As you draft rookies you will do the same for them, but in both cases you'll only have a finite amount of cash, which means that you can't just sign everyone to a long term contract.
Our goal is to make a free agent system that's easy to use, so when you sign free agents their contract length will be based on the amount of money that you bid for them. If you sign a guy cheap (i.e., he's not in demand), it'll be a one-year contract. If you win a massive bidding war for a big star and pay through the nose, he'll have a seven-year contract. The beauty of this system will be that once guys are signed you won't have to worry about their salary costs, and you'll never have to cut someone for salary cap reasons. If you want to cut a guy before his contract is up, that's fine. It just means that you wasted a little money signing him.