Signing players

[tomr1962]

Players can negoiate anytime during the year correct. But once they sign you can't renogiate to following season is that right.

[Guest]

Re: Signing players

Players can negoiate anytime during the year correct. But once they sign you can't renogiate to following season is that right.

The stages go in this order.

1. Coach/Staff Hiring (3 stages)
2. Ticket Prices/Franchise Tag/Send Player To Summer League (1 stage)
3. Regular Free Agency (12 stages, often referred to collectively as FA1)
4. Amateur Draft
5. Late Free Agency (5 stages, often referred to collectively as FA2)
6. Training Camp/Weight Training
7. Preseason
8. Regular Season
9. Postseason

Players can renegotiate in stages 3-8, with one exception: no renegotiating after the Super Bowl has been played.

Only one renegotiation per game year. So, if you sign a guy to a one-year deal during FA1, you won't be able to sign him to an extension during the Postseason, for example.

[tomr1962]

thanks a lot that helps

[Heelfan71]

If signing FA and Coaches is anything like OOTP, it will be interesting to see how much these guys get signed for. Especially stud players. We will have some bidding wars ! 8O

[Cotton]

One contract per player per team per year.

That's all you need to remember. If you just re-negotiated, but then trade a guy, he can do up a new deal with his new team. If you keep him, you have to wait until the season's over to rework the deal. Can't do it twice in one season.

You can re-negotiate with a lot (if not all) of your players right now, though. Some GMs like to wait and see how they play. If you don't have a lot of cap space, you risk losing players left and right when you can't afford their demands - which will skyrocket if they do play well. So, some like to sign early and lock them in so they don't risk losing them in the off season. Fortunately for the GM, and not the player, you don't have keep a guy, regardless of what deal you've signed him to.

Short term deals almost always benefit a great player because the way they make the bulk of their money is in the signing bonus. So, if they do a new deal every year, that's a dream come true for them: they get filthy rich. A lot of guys will take smaller short term deals than huge long term deals.

(Followed by the inevitable grumbling and grousing by the GM wondering why the player didn't want to be locked into his long term deal. Happens all the time.)

FOF 2k7 has changed a lot of that, and maybe SD can add to this, but that's definitely my experience with FOF 2k4.

[Cotton]

Also, make use of the Franchise Salary buttons when you're making an offer to a player. It will show you what the top guy at that position is making, the franchise tag cost (which is the average of the top five players) and the top 20 average - which is the most helpful, IMO. Almost all your top starters are going to want to be somewhere in that range, depending on their current performance, potental, and their agent.

[Cotton]

If signing FA and Coaches is anything like OOTP, it will be interesting to see how much these guys get signed for. Especially stud players. We will have some bidding wars ! 8O

Most definitely. It's quite a lively aspect of the game. :)

And one that's the most debated, sometimes, too.