The Franchise League – Update
Alright, the first Franchise League blog post laid out most of the groundwork for what has grown into a grass roots campaign to make sure the Franchise Draft League (aka Franchise Mode) gets off the ground. This updated will look to sort out any additional issues between now and the start of the upcoming season. There have been some minor tweaks to the official numbers as well as the addition of ‘Bird Rights’, so check out those updates below.
Sign-ups are OPEN. To save your spot for the league just email CACBasketball@gmail.com and I’ll keep an updated list running on the message boards.
Schedule
Deadline to pay the league fee of $150 is Friday April 19th
Draft Combine will be held on Tuesday April 23rd @ CAC
Draft will be held on Saturday April 27th @ CAC
Preseason games will be played on Tuesday April 30th
Games will be played on Tuesday nights at C.A.C. starting on May 7th
Games will be played at 7:00 PM, 7:50 PM, 8:40 PM or 9:30 PM
The top 8 teams will qualify for the playoffs and the Finals will be a Best of 3, with schedule TBD
1st Off-season
The first draft will be held on April 27th at CAC. It will be conducted in the same manner as any other CAC draft league.
Captains will be determined by B Draft APR. Anyone with an APR under 40 an be a captain for the Franchise League. In order to have such a wide variation of talented captains a cap hit will be assessed each season based on the Captain’s APR
Captains with an APR from 0-19.99 do not have an additional cap hit each season.
Captains with an APR from 20-29.99 have an additional $2 cap hit each season.
Captains with an APR from 30-40 have an additional $4 cap hit each season
Oder is determined by lottery based on APR like every other Draft League and the Draft snakes after each round.
Players are assigned initial contract value based upon the round they are drafted in. All dollar amounts in ‘millions’
1st – $11 – $14
2nd – $8 – $10
3rd – $5 – $7
4th – $3 – $4
5th – $1 – $2
Less than $4 – additional season + $1
$10 or more – additional season + $3
The off-season will contain 3 major activity periods (Cuts, “Free” Agency, and Auction) with Trades allowed throughout the entire off-season, that will begin once the full player pool has been determined and paid for. (August 26th, 2013 deadline).
Captains can cut 1 player under contract each season for a $2.0 penalty against the cap (cap hit) for the following season
No cuts can be made after free agency starts. Deadline for cuts will be determined each season
Every “free” agent must be signed before the auction draft
Contracts to free agents, and auction pool players, can only be offered as a whole number or .5
To sign a player captains must also have enough cap space to sign additional players to get to the required 6 players
Offer 1 – From Matty Bells – 1 season @ $4
Offer 2 – From Sam Boyer – 2 seasons @ $9.5 and $11.5
“Free” Agency period will be determined each season
Any player that has played 2 consecutive seasons on the same contract (either for the same team or, if traded, playing out the second season of a contract) is eligible to be resigned by the team that holds that players rights for a discount. For every $2 offered in the contract, the team with the players Bird Rights can sign that player for a $.5 discount
Offer 1 – non-Bird Rights – 2 seasons @ $8 and $10
Offer 2 – Bird Rights – 2 seasons @ $6 and $8
Offer 1 – non-Bird Rights – 2 season @ $9.5 and $11.5
Offer 2 – Bird Rights – 2 seasons @ $7.5 and $9.5
Every subsequent season after the first, there will be an auction to add new players to the league. Every new player to the league will be a part of the auction draft. This will be in lieu of the traditional ‘draft’ in order to prevent tanking down the stretch of a regular season.
The auction draft is the last off-season transaction period before the season starts
Team captains bid on each player in the auction pool and every team must have 6 players at the end of the auction
Captains must have enough cap room to sign the player bid on plus additional cap room to have the required 5 players signed to the team for the bid to be valid
The minimum contract offer is $1 for 1 season.
Ties in bids (same $ and length) to the same player will be broken by worst record the previous season. That captain will be awarded the player.
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Damn this is a lot to read. Once I win a 5v5 draft league championship, I’ll transition over to this league so that probably won’t be this upcoming season. Maybe I will have read all this by then too.
So based on which paragraph you read the draft is either April 27th Saturday or Monday April 29th which is the same day contracts are due. Question though when are the players expected to accept/decline contracts? Would it be possible to play a game with the team to find out who the people on the team are? Not everyone is Matty and knows every single person who has ever walked through the doors of CAC.
Draft will Saturday April 27th – I’ll update where it says the 29th. The reason for that is so we have time to squeeze in a pre-season game.
Your second point is a good one, I’ll let captains wait until the day after the pre-season game to turn contracts in. So Wednesday May 1st by noon will be the deadline to get those to the League Offices
I’m in. Can’t wait.
captain??
In! Can I be a captain?
I’ll have to check the numbers, I don’t think you’re going to fall under 40
This is amazing!!! Count me in!
lol…..I don’t see anything about endorsement deals though