PP's ?

[spotnik001]

mabye i need one of those league mentors... but... to understand... to upgrade to an A does my guy need to be at an A- first? or does the 1800 go to an A straight from whatever the current grade is?

[Trailblazers]

you have to be the grade below to get the next grade

[duncanonu]

I didn't understand it either when I first joined Cavs, don't feel bad.

[spotnik001]

i'm just trying to get knowledge of as much as possible so that i can know what i'm doing....

if someone can, i've been semi-explained the hard cap/soft cap stuff by mike, i didn't understand, can someone tell me the difference and how it works and MLE's and the other one...LLE's or something like that...?

[duncanonu]

well the Hornets previously made a post that pretty much sums it up.........

lba.proboards74.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=askthecommittee&thread=1169910935

Basically, you can go over the soft cap ($50 mill), but only re-signing players, signing drafted rookies and using your exceptions. The Hard cap ($90 mill) you cannot go over, period. That link gets into it much more extensively.

Don't let Bird years confuse you. A Bird year is just a year that the player played for you. So if a guy signs with you for 4 years and after 4 years opts for Free Agency, you have 4 Bird years. Bird Years do transfer from team to team in trades, but reset to 0 if a player signs with a new team in Free Agency or is signed during the year.

[Hornets]

in fact, this is the bird years rule is pretty easy, there are just 3 instances bird years can change:

Every time a player is CUT by a team his bird years are set back to 0.
Every time a player is SIGNED in FREE AGENCY by a NEW TEAM his bird years are set back to 0.
and ...
Every time a player is on an team roster at SEASONS END his bird year count is increased by 1.

(so when a player is on your roster at seasons end he will have +1 bird years for next season, even if he's expiring now. but ONLY if YOU resign him he will keep that bird years count)


a hint: as mentioned before, trading a player will have him keep his bird years count. So if you want to sign a player in FA and still have his bird years, doing a SIGN AND TRADE deal with his former team is the only way to get this done.

[Pistons]

So if player X has 5 bird years with you.

He can sign up to a 5 year deal with your team?

I know how to get bird years, but what exactly do they do for you?

[Hornets]

well, that's free agency math again.

basically it's only interesting if a player has less than 3 bird years (0-2) or 3 or more bird years (3-999) with you.

in the first case, with less than 3, the maximum you can offer is a 6 year contract with 10% increase, in the latter case you can offer a 7 year contract with 12.5% increase.