Hey folks, its me, back again with a few announcements
Our first announcement is about the entry drafts. As you know already, we decided that expansion teams would pick 5th and 6th in this upcoming draft. Well, in S16 we have decided that the expansion teams will select 1st and 2nd overall.
In order to decided who picks first, we will have a draft lottery between the two expansion teams, with each of them having 50% odds to win. In the interest of fairness, the loser of the draft lottery this year will pick first the next year. Draft order will not snake in these drafts.
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Next up, we have the S15 cap. HO, with the help of our good friend @SwagSloth, was able to run the numbers on league cap space, and we have decided that the cap needs to be upped for this upcoming season. We have voted and decided that it would be pertinent (is that what this word means?) to up the cap for this season to 85M.
This is not a permanent change. Some of our concerns with cap should be solved with expansion. We will once again look at cap next offseason to see where we stand and see where we should set the cap, but for now a safe assumption would be that in S16 the cap would return to 75M
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Lastly, we have some info about expansion GMs
After some questions were brought up, we wanted to clarify what these new team GMs could and couldn't do this upcoming season. First of all, expansion GMs cannot speak to free agents this season. Given that expansion teams cannot sign any players, they an only negotiate for players to sign with them in a future year. HO felt like this was too close to tampering and think it would be a bad thing to have, so we have decided that GMs must stay out of the FA frenzy this season
Secondly, we wanted to clarify that expansion GMs can not make a trade FOR a player in this S15 season, since they are yet to open up shop and will not have a cap to pay people with. They are able to trade away and trade for picks during the season, and they are also able to trade AWAY any draftees they have, but they will not be able to add players.
Anyways, thats all for me. cya
Our first announcement is about the entry drafts. As you know already, we decided that expansion teams would pick 5th and 6th in this upcoming draft. Well, in S16 we have decided that the expansion teams will select 1st and 2nd overall.
In order to decided who picks first, we will have a draft lottery between the two expansion teams, with each of them having 50% odds to win. In the interest of fairness, the loser of the draft lottery this year will pick first the next year. Draft order will not snake in these drafts.
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Next up, we have the S15 cap. HO, with the help of our good friend @SwagSloth, was able to run the numbers on league cap space, and we have decided that the cap needs to be upped for this upcoming season. We have voted and decided that it would be pertinent (is that what this word means?) to up the cap for this season to 85M.
This is not a permanent change. Some of our concerns with cap should be solved with expansion. We will once again look at cap next offseason to see where we stand and see where we should set the cap, but for now a safe assumption would be that in S16 the cap would return to 75M
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Lastly, we have some info about expansion GMs
After some questions were brought up, we wanted to clarify what these new team GMs could and couldn't do this upcoming season. First of all, expansion GMs cannot speak to free agents this season. Given that expansion teams cannot sign any players, they an only negotiate for players to sign with them in a future year. HO felt like this was too close to tampering and think it would be a bad thing to have, so we have decided that GMs must stay out of the FA frenzy this season
Secondly, we wanted to clarify that expansion GMs can not make a trade FOR a player in this S15 season, since they are yet to open up shop and will not have a cap to pay people with. They are able to trade away and trade for picks during the season, and they are also able to trade AWAY any draftees they have, but they will not be able to add players.
Anyways, thats all for me. cya