Post by Cincinnati Bengals (Chris) on Mar 26, 2016 20:07:31 GMT -5
You must include the following information for a Waiver to become official:
Player Name (Team-Position) in the subject line and $Dollar Amount/number of years+the letter y affixed at the end
Ex: Calvin Johnson (DET-WR) $1/1y
WAIVER RULES:
WAIVED PLAYER CAP PENALTY EXAMPLE:
Ex: Calvin Johnson (DET-WR) $1/1y
Player Name (Team-Position) in the subject line and $Dollar Amount/number of years+the letter y affixed at the end
Ex: Calvin Johnson (DET-WR) $1/1y
WAIVER RULES:
- A GM can waive a player at any time during the year.
- A GM can only waive one player at a time in a single waivers post in fairness to those who may want to claim your waived player, except for the period in which UFA is closed.
- There is no limit on how many players a team can waive, but there must always be at least 18 active players on a team's roster.
- Once a player is posted on waivers, he no longer counts towards a team's active player count.
- Once a player is posted on waivers, the released player will be removed from the current roster. There is a 24-hour period in which another team can claim him at the player's current salary.
- You can only make a claim on the number of players that you have the actual roster, salary cap and contract years space for. If you exceed this number without waiving a player or accepting and having a trade approved PRIOR TO making your a claim, all claims found to be in violation of this rule will not be honored and all of your subsequent claims will be canceled. This will be determined by the chronology of your moves.
- At any time during this 24-hour period, all 32 teams will have the opportunity to put in a claim for the player placed on waivers, including the waiving team's ability to reclaim the player.
- If multiple claims are made on a player put on waivers, the team that will be awarded the player is determined by where they fall on the Waiver Order list.
- The Waiver Order list will be maintained by the Roster Managers, listing teams in the order of 1-32 based on when they last made a claim, with #1 being the team with the highest priority. The team highest on the Waiver Order list putting in a claim for the waived player will be awarded the player after the 24-hour period has elapsed.
- When a team is awarded a player off waivers, that team will be moved to #32 on the Waiver Order list and all the teams behind that team will move up one spot on the list.
- If a waiver claim is executed successfully, the player in question is signed to the new team at the same contract terms ($/y), and the claiming team will absorb the full salary, while the waiving team will be absolved of the entire contract with no penalty.
- A releasing GM can reclaim a player on waivers at any time during the 24-hour window, as long as there are no active bids. However, if a releasing GM reclaims his own player, it is just like any other waiver claim, and his team will be moved to the bottom of the Waiver Order list.
- If you waive a player, you cannot bid on or try and reclaim the player via UFA for 30 days, unless not doing so would interfere with the QB Rule.
- Once the 24-hour period has passed, if no team has claimed the player, he becomes an UFA. (Subject to bidding rules listed on the UFA thread).
- If a waived player clears waivers (Becoming an UFA), the releasing GM will be penalized half of that player's salary over the length of the contract. Unless the player has announced his retirement during the time of the player's original contract length, in which case, his penalty will stop tolling on the releasing GM's salary cap at the end of the league season directly after the player's announcement of retirement.
- During the time between the end of the season and the end of the Rookie Draft, waived players will be unavailable to be claimed and simply enter the free agent pool. League Managers will make an announcement when this period starts/ends.
WAIVED PLAYER CAP PENALTY EXAMPLE:
Ex: Calvin Johnson (DET-WR) $1/1y
- If you waive Calvin Johnson, whose contract was $1/1y (In the example above), you will be penalized $0.5 for that year. This means the maximum salary cap space available for you to use would effectively be $79.5 instead of $80 during that year.
- The Cap Penalty section will be listed in RED at the bottom of each team's roster page, and will be added to all rostered players to determine a team's total cap commitments.