I'm going to be mostly away all weekend.  Next week I'll finish loading rosters on Fantrax, get all the transactions processed and schedule the draft. 

Have a great 4th everyone!

Rob

I will post a few examples of extensions to help you guys figure this out.  Here's the first:

Ok, here's how it works, Lidstrom is a good example: 

The rankings next to the values correlate to our league scoring rankings.  So to look up a player go to our league on Fantrax then to Players and sort by Fpts (it should be sorted by Fpts by default).  You need to check both the 10/11 ranks and the 09/10 ranks.  Lidstrom ranks 6th amongst D players in 10/11 and 10th in 09/10.  The higher ranking is 6th and this is what will be used.  Now go to the extension values under Defensive players and look up the 6th rank player.  The extension value is $6.4M.  Lidstrom's actual contract is for $6.2M so his extension in DNHL is quite accurate.  It won't always be perfect but should generally be in the ballpark. 

Now you decide on his contract length.  The contract limits are as follows:

<= $1.4m, 2 years
$1.5m - $5.4m, 3 years
$5.5m - $7.9m, 4 years
>=$8m, 5 years (the overall limit)

So Lidstrom can be signed to a 1, 2, 3 or 4 year deal.  He cannot be signed to a 5 year deal as the yearly salary has to exceed $7.9M to qualify for a 5 year deal. 

The $6.4M extension is the yearly value.  So no matter how many years you sign him he will earn $6.4M per year, not that amount divided by the number of years.  This might be confusing as compared to free agent bidding where all bids are for total contract value.  If you win a free agent bid at $6.4M you can sign the player to: 1y @ $6.4, 2y @ $3.2 or 3y @ $2.1.  A $6.4M FA bid cannot be broken down to a 4 year since a 4 year deal needs to exceed $5.4M per year.

Make sense?

The current scoring is a bit lopsided, the best goalies are earning twice as many fantasy points as the best forwards.  I changed things around a bit and I think it's a lot more balanced:

Skaters
Plus/minus: 1
Assists: 2
Goals: 4
Hits per Game: 0.25
Penalties in Minutes: -0.1
Shots on Goal: 0.25

Goalies
Goals Against: -1
Losses: -1
Shutouts: 2
Saves: 0.25
Wins: 2

Detroit Red Wings
Last Updated: 4/9/19
General Manager: Bill
ProFSL ID: Whomp

Team Budget for the 2020-2021 Season
Salary: $61.9m
Under cap by $33.1m

Team Budget for the 2021-2022 Season
Salary: $37.4m
Under cap by $57.6m

NHL Roster (23/30 players)


Center:
C Drake Caggiula, 2m (2023-2024)
C Lukas Vejdemo, $0.5m (P-n/a)
C Jesper Boqvist, $0.5m (P-n/a)
C Jesperi Kotkaniemi, $0.5m (P-20/21)

Defense:
D Duncan Keith, $3.5m (2021-2022)
D Marco Scandella, $2m (2020-2021)
D Nick Leddy, $3m (2021-2022)
D Erik Gustafsson, $4.8m (2022-2023)
D Dylan DeMelo, $2.6m (2020-2021)
D Radim Simek, $0.9m (2020-2021)
D Alec Martinez, $2.2m (2020-2021)
D Joe Hicketts, $0.5m (P-n/a)

Goalie:
G Scott Darling, $2m (2022-2023)
G Hayden Hawkey, $0.5m (P-n/a)
G Collin Delia, $0.5m (P-n/a)
G Artyom Zagidulin, $0.5m (P-n/a)

Left Wing:
LW Alex Iafallo, $0.9m (2020-2021)
LW Brandon Saad, $2.9m (2021-2022)

Right Wing:
RW Corey Perry, $0.9m (2020-2021)
RW Brandon Tanev, 2.9m (2021-2022)
RW Reilly Smith, $7.2m (2024-2025)
RW Matthew Highmore, $0.5m (P-21/22)
RW Brendan Gallagher, $5.6m (2023-2024)

Contract Buyouts and Salary Payments:
X- Cash to Detroit, $6.5m through 20/21, $6.5m this year
X- Cash to Detroit, $8m through 20/21, $8m this year

Draft Picks:
X- 2020 1st Round Draft Pick, Montreal, $m this year
X- 2020 2nd Round Draft Pick, Montreal, $m this year
X- 2020 3rd Round Draft Pick, Detroit, $m this year
X- 2020 3rd Round Draft Pick, Chicago, $m this year
X- 2020 3rd Round Draft Pick, New York Islanders, $m this year
X- 2021 1st Round Draft Pick, Philadelphia, $m this year
X- 2021 1st Round Draft Pick, Montreal, $m this year
X- 2021 2nd Round Draft Pick, Montreal, $m this year
X- 2021 3rd Round Draft Pick, Montreal, $m this year
 
Minor League Roster (18/15 players)
C William Bitten, $m (P-n/a)
C Philipp Kurashev $m (P-n/a)
C Chase De Leo, $m (P-n/a)
C Cameron Hillis, $m (P-n/a)
C Jan Mysak, $m (P-n/a)
C Jacob Olofsson, $m (P-n/a)
D Jayden Struble, $m (P-n/a)
D Oliwer Kaski $m (P-n/a)
G Frederik Dichow, $m (P-n/a)
G Kyle Keyser $m (P-n/a)
G Kirill Ustimenko, $m (P-n/a)
LW Martin Reway, $m (P-n/a)
LW Luke Tuch, $m (P-n/a)
LW Kieffer Bellows, $m (P-n/a)
LW Tyler Steenbergen $m (P-n/a)
RW Jesse Ylonen, $m (P-n/a)
RW Cole Caufield, $m (P-n/a)
RW Alexander Gordin, $m (P-n/a)

Toronto Maple Leafs
Last Updated: 4/9/19
General Manager: Rick
ProFSL ID: Ric_2227

Team Budget for the 2020-2021 Season
Salary: $85.1m
Under cap by $9.9m

Team Budget for the 2021-2022 Season
Salary: $78.1m
Under cap by $16.9m

NHL Roster (26/30 players)

Center:
C Ryan Getzlaf, $6.7m (2022-2023)
C Oskar Sundqvist, $3.7m (2022-23)
C Zach Hyman, $4m (2021-2022)
C Calle Jarnkrok, $2.5m (2021-2022)
C Dylan Strome, $3m (2023-2024)
C/LW Adam Lowry, $3m (2021-2022)
C/LW Ryan O'Reilly, $7.7m (2024-2025)
C/LW Vladislav Namestnikov, $2.7m (2021-2022)

Defense:
D Jaccob Slavin, $5.6m (2023-2024)
D Justin Faulk, 4.5m (2022-2023)
D Dmitri Orlov, $3.6m (2022-2023)
D Jimmy Schuldt, $0.5m (P-n/a)
D Jared Spurgeon, $3.8m (2020-2021)
D Hampus Lindholm, $2.2m (2020-2021)
D Christoper Tanev, $0.5m (2020-2021)
D Ilya Lyubushkin, $2.1m (2021-2022)
D Matt Grzelcyk, $2m (2021-2022)

Goalie:
G Keith Kinkaid, $2.6m (2022-2023)
G Ben Bishop, $6.9m (2024-2025)
G Philipp Grubauer, $2m (2022-2023)

Left Wing:
LW Ilya Mikheyev, $0.5m (P-n/a)
LW Brady Tkachuk, $0.5m (P-20/21)

Right Wing:
LW/RW Anthony Mantha, $2.5m (2023-2024)
LW/RW Kevin Labanc, $2m (2023-2024)
LW/RW Nikolaj Ehlers, $4.2m (2022-2023)
RW Patrik Laine, $5.8m (2023-2024)

Contract Buyouts and Salary Payments:

Draft Picks:
X- 2020 1st Round Draft Pick, Toronto, $m this year
X- 2020 1st Round Draft Pick, New York Rangers, $m this year
X- 2020 2nd Round Draft Pick, Toronto, $m this year
X- 2020 2nd Round Draft Pick, Philadelphia, $m this year
X- 2021 1st Round Draft Pick, Toronto, $m this year
X- 2021 2nd Round Draft Pick, Toronto, $m this year
X- 2021 3rd Round Draft Pick, Toronto, $m this year
 
Minor League Roster (11/15 players)
C Josh Norris, $m (P-n/a)
C/RW Nick Merkley, $m (P-n/a)
C/LW Nick Robertson, $m (P-n/a)
LW Rodion Amirov, $m (P-n/a)
D Mikko Kokkonen, $m (P-n/a)
D Jett Woo, $m (P-n/a)
D Josh Mahura, $m (P-n/a)
D Topi Niemelä, $m (P-n/a)
G Artur Akhtyamov, $m (P-n/a)
G Ivan Nalimov, $m (P-n/a)
G Evan Fitzpatrick, $m (P-n/a)