PDH Questions & Answers

[jlapo11]

In response:
I'm not sure how how we work things around these part but do we always change written rules when some do not like what is written? I am all for peoples ideas but rule is rules are they not?

We know that it is too late this year to change the rule but like in real-life a league always revises or eliminates rules in the best interest of the league. Personally I have not fun (not because I am short in cap space) this year with all bids flying all over the place (understandable however this year because of all contracted players available and $ available for some teams) but I think we should consider NEXT year to return to a 5 bid max on the board at the same time and possibly introduce a penalty if the winning bidder returns a player to the FA pool (MIGHT happen this year with all the numerous players bidded by same GMs this year).

... and there are still some GMs with a lot of money not involved in the bidding war YET.

[jlapo11]

Question

If I bid on a RC player will the RC (0.5) immediately be included in the cap or only when he will be promote on the NHL roster? If it is RC+0.5 the extra +0.5 will count immediately against the cap?

[Rob]

We know that it is too late this year to change the rule but like in real-life a league always revises or eliminates rules in the best interest of the league. Personally I have not fun (not because I am short in cap space) this year with all bids flying all over the place (understandable however this year because of all contracted players available and $ available for some teams) but I think we should consider NEXT year to return to a 5 bid max on the board at the same time and possibly introduce a penalty if the winning bidder returns a player to the FA pool (MIGHT happen this year with all the numerous players bidded by same GMs this year).

... and there are still some GMs with a lot of money not involved in the bidding war YET.

I wouldn't be opposed to a change.  Both methods have their flaws, though.  No max bids makes for a messy session with potential invalid bids that get missed and forces GM's to either get in at the start or miss out.

Maxing bids extends the session, is a bit more clean and easy to manage, but it also can lead to more contention - as GM's are waiting for bids to finish to create more bids, they're prone to jump into another bid thread late in the game.  There are protections for this in PDH rules, but if we did max out the bids those protections may need to go away, or be revised to some extent. 

Six of one, half dozen of the other... But if there is to be a change it definitely shouldn't take effect until next year.  That much is obvious.

This really won't be as big of a deal next season - the first FA session was always going to be a clusterf**k either way. 

[Vik]

Question

If I bid on a RC player will the RC (0.5) immediately be included in the cap or only when he will be promote on the NHL roster? If it is RC+0.5 the extra +0.5 will count immediately against the cap?

RC with zero bonus are no cap hit if you send straight to minors.

If this player is called up then yes the cap hit applies. Any signing bonus is always a cap hit regardless if player goes to minors.

In terms of bonus, I just reread things and technically we have it set up so you can split the signing bonus over 2 years with no restrictions, so similar to buyout. If you do a big RC + 10m can technically differ all 10m to next year as cap hit. This actually means a team like me with zero cap now can still bid with bonus money. 

[jlapo11]

 

[Vik]

Regarding discussion limiting bids for spots available or a fixed number etc...

Definitely not going to change this year and I agree year 1 is just a mess with the amount of talent still left and certain teams have lots of spots and cap space. We should not really have this issue going forward but I do understand how it is a pain right now.

I will consider what has been suggested and happy to hear more feedback but either way no decision on this change, if any, will be made for time being.

For what it's worth, right now only change I think I would like to see is regarding cleaning up RFA rule due to inconsistencies in initial set up and this would technically happen immediately. I will have this proposal and list of players that change per a team later today or tomorrow.

[jlapo11]

Clarification about length/$$$

Any bid between ( total) 4 to  5.9 requires a three year contract at 2M/yr each not 2 year contract I think (see Gusev, Suter should be a 3 year @ 2M

Based on rules
Salary Per Year  -  Max Years
$6.0m or more - 5 years
$4.0m to $5.9m - 4 years
$2.0m to $3.9m - 3 years
$0.5m to $1.9m - 2 years

Am I right?
 

[jmtrops]

Clarification about length/$$$

Any bid between ( total) 4 to  5.9 requires a three year contract at 2M/yr each not 2 year contract I think (see Gusev, Suter should be a 3 year @ 2M

Based on rules
Salary Per Year  -  Max Years
$6.0m or more - 5 years
$4.0m to $5.9m - 4 years
$2.0m to $3.9m - 3 years
$0.5m to $1.9m - 2 years

Am I right?

no the rule is max years so you can do a 2M 2 year contract

[Rob]

The same setup exists in DNHL. It's the extensions that include a minimum standard.

[Rob]

Regarding IR and LTIR:

What's the rule on how players should be removed from IR/LTIR.  If a player is healthy and playing, will mod's force the player from injured status?  Or is the GM allowed to keep a healthy player in IR/LTIR indefinitely?