PDH Questions & Answers

[cloud91]

Unfortunately the answer here is you now have to wait for final bid here and decide. I had to pick a cut off date and set up full offseason timeline, without really knowing how real life period and signings will play out.

This is our 1st go around at RFA here, so can see how it goes and make adjustments for next year if needed.

Ok, i'll just wait for better option.
Thanks.

[GypsieDeathBringer]

A couple questions on the RFA process

Lets say I have available to me just my normal amount of picks, one pick for each round the next 2 years, am I able to offer 2 players a contract in the
$4.3m to $6.3m = First Round & Third Round
$6.4m to $8.4m = First Round, Second Round, and Third Round tiers using my picks across both years or do I need all those picks in the upcoming year? 

Seems not the best if it is 2 different teams for one of them to be compensated 2 years from now on a lost player, and how would we determine which team gets what year?

Second, for RFAs that nobody bids on does the original team get a chance to resign them after RFA using normal extension rules?  I apologize if this has already been answered. 

[shooter47]

A couple questions on the RFA process

Lets say I have available to me just my normal amount of picks, one pick for each round the next 2 years, am I able to offer 2 players a contract in the
$4.3m to $6.3m = First Round & Third Round
$6.4m to $8.4m = First Round, Second Round, and Third Round tiers using my picks across both years or do I need all those picks in the upcoming year? 

Seems not the best if it is 2 different teams for one of them to be compensated 2 years from now on a lost player, and how would we determine which team gets what year?

Second, for RFAs that nobody bids on does the original team get a chance to resign them after RFA using normal extension rules?  I apologize if this has already been answered.

The bolded text below is from the rules section. It just states you need to have the picks and that the other team gets to pick. It does say they can take your next years 1st if they would like so it appear to me that you just need to have picks available in the next two years.

As far as who gets what years pick I'm assuming whichever team decides to take the draft picks first would get first choice. Its not ideal but that would seem like the logical way to decide order.

From the Rules section:

You MUST have the necessary draft picks available in order to make ALL of your RFA bids

The owner of the RFA gets to choose ANY of your draft picks available
Example:
If you have three 1st round draft picks in the summer's draft, plus one 1st round draft pick in next year's draft, the owner of the RFA can choose any of your 3 picks in this year's draft, or choose to take next year's 1st round pick. The choice is theirs, not yours

[Vik]

A couple questions on the RFA process

Lets say I have available to me just my normal amount of picks, one pick for each round the next 2 years, am I able to offer 2 players a contract in the
$4.3m to $6.3m = First Round & Third Round
$6.4m to $8.4m = First Round, Second Round, and Third Round tiers using my picks across both years or do I need all those picks in the upcoming year? 

Seems not the best if it is 2 different teams for one of them to be compensated 2 years from now on a lost player, and how would we determine which team gets what year?

Second, for RFAs that nobody bids on does the original team get a chance to resign them after RFA using normal extension rules?  I apologize if this has already been answered.

The bolded text below is from the rules section. It just states you need to have the picks and that the other team gets to pick. It does say they can take your next years 1st if they would like so it appear to me that you just need to have picks available in the next two years.

As far as who gets what years pick I'm assuming whichever team decides to take the draft picks first would get first choice. Its not ideal but that would seem like the logical way to decide order.

From the Rules section:

You MUST have the necessary draft picks available in order to make ALL of your RFA bids

The owner of the RFA gets to choose ANY of your draft picks available
Example:
If you have three 1st round draft picks in the summer's draft, plus one 1st round draft pick in next year's draft, the owner of the RFA can choose any of your 3 picks in this year's draft, or choose to take next year's 1st round pick. The choice is theirs, not yours

In terms of having picks and how they get awarded:

Pretty much as stated, the amount of picks you have per a compensation level is how many players you can peruse at any given time.

I agree it is not a perfect solution, but it will have to be 1st come 1st serve on specific picks.  So, if a team responds 1st they get the picks of their choice and then 2nd team would have to settle for whatever is left (be it having a choice among remaining or forced to take the only options available) if they also choose not to match player.

In terms of 2nd question regarding what happens if RFA is not bid on:

It is currently not in rules but was also asked separately and I am on board to allow using normal extensions in this scenario. Tentatively below is what I am thinking and assuming no objections I will finalize and shoot a quick PM update and update rules/timeline over weekend:

With draft starting on August 23rd and regular FA starting August 30th, we will have a 1 week window where any RFAs not bid on can be extended via normal rules. This naturally means that we will close RFA on the 23rd but any bids posted prior can continue as normal until resolved.

[GypsieDeathBringer]

I'm about to buyout one of our league's biggest contract here, so I had a question about the mechanics of a buyout.

I see I can allocate the total buyout dollars for any amount across the length of the contract.  My question is if I had spare money at the end of a year and want to pull the cap hit from a year down the road do I have to pull the full cap hit or can I pull partial?

Lets say I do an even 6.67m a year for 5 years, have some extra cash in year 1, can I pull 3m from the 2nd year?  Or, does it have to be the whole 6.67m?

[Vik]

I'm about to buyout one of our league's biggest contract here, so I had a question about the mechanics of a buyout.

I see I can allocate the total buyout dollars for any amount across the length of the contract.  My question is if I had spare money at the end of a year and want to pull the cap hit from a year down the road do I have to pull the full cap hit or can I pull partial?

Lets say I do an even 6.67m a year for 5 years, have some extra cash in year 1, can I pull 3m from the 2nd year?  Or, does it have to be the whole 6.67m?

You are welcome to relocate any amount of future money to a given year, i.e. does not need to be full amount. Currently have it set up where the very early and mostly ideal part of offseason is when some buyout rellocation took place this year and then we officially rolled over to 2021-22 books. It will remain similar so each offseason you will have a relocation window before roll over should it be something you want to take advantage of.