LEAGUE KEEPER INFORMATION

FNBA Contracts

--We’ll have non-guaranteed contracts and guaranteed contracts.

--If you sign a guy to a guaranteed contract, and want to get out of it before the contract expires, there will be a $1 penalty assessed in next year’s auction for breaking the contract. It doesn’t matter whether there is one year remaining on the contract or three years.

--A four year deal will be the maximum allowed for a contract offer.

--In a non-guaranteed deal, you can opt out of the contract at any time.

1. Guaranteed contracts: Reduced rate for this option - $1 per year penalty for breaking a guaranteed contract. 4 years max per player.

2. Non-Guaranteed contracts: a little higher rate than guaranteed contracts, but allows the flexibility to drop a player in the following year(s) without penalty. It also allows you to not have to worry about your cap in 2,3, or 4 years down the road.

3. Option Year: Simply put, you can pick up any player for their current price to fit into your keeper budget for the upcoming season. This is a one shot deal, once the year is up you have to release them back into the free agent pool.

Keeper Cap is $25-$65. Any team that did not make the playoffs does not have to follow the minimum keeper amount.

non-guaranteed: 2-4 years allowed

$1-20 = $2 raise

$21-30 = $3 raise

$31 to 40 = $4 raise

$41 to 50 = $5 raise

$51 and over = $6 raise

example: a $20 player would cost $22, $25,$28, $31 over 4 years

(you only need to worry about the 1st year when figuring out your keeper cap)

guaranteed: 2-4 years allowed

$1-20 = $1 raise

$21-35 = $2 raise

$36 to 50 = $3 raise

$51 and over = $4 raise

example: a $20 player would cost $21, $23,$25, $27 over 4 years (you need to make sure you do not go over your keeper cap in ANY of the years involved in this scenario)

FNBA Restricted Free Agency

--You can name up to one player as a restricted free agent after their first year with your team. This player’s salary will not take away from your keeper cap.

--The risk of giving the player, restricted free agency is that every other team has the opportunity to bid on that player. However, the original team has the right of first refusal. After a week of the Restricted Free Agency period, the original team can decide to match a bid given by another team, or let the player walk.

--If there are no bids at all for that player during the Restricted FA period, the original team will retain this player at the same contract price that they had the player for the year before. For however long the team decides to sign the player for (limit: up to four years), the player will be frozen at this salary. This is the reward for taking the risk of putting a player on Restricted Free Agency.

FNBA SALARY CAP ISSUES

$110 is the salary cap, $125 is the maximum cap.

Up to $15 in salary cap space will be allowed to each team for roster and trade flexibility. Teams that acquire permanent cap space will keep the money they gain after the season. Teams that acquire temporary cap space in a trade will give the money back at the conclusion of the season to the team they got it from.

The only way a team will be able to recapture this lost cap space is to acquire it from another team in a trade.

No team may trade more than $5 of permanent money in trades throughout a season. That $5 can be included in one deal or several deals.

However, a team may trade up to $15 in temporary money over a season. A team may also deal $15 of temporary money in a single trade. However, then, that team will have no flexible cap left.

A team can include a mixture of temporary and permanent money in a deal. For example, Team A could trade Shaquille O’Neal to Team B for Chris Bosh and $2 of permanent money and $3 of flexible cap money.