COMMISSIONER'S CORNER

[Drew]

let's get this season started with some clarity around rules... i'll post several others in separate threads to be addressed individually.

1. Cap Penalty In-Effect Date

need confirmation on when  penalty for going over or under the cap ceiling/floor is n effect.


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Immediately I purpose.

[Drew]

let's get this season started with some clarity around rules... i'll post several others in separate threads to be addressed individually.

4. CONTRACT LENGTH LIMITS: MIN + MAX

the quote from the contracts page below explicitly outlines the Maximum length of contracts. however it does not explicitly outline whether there's a Minimum length (ie. for a contract extension ... not a FA bid ... valued at 6.0m, the max length is 5yrs but can the duration be shorter, say 1yr @ 6m?)

First off a $6.0m contract can only be 4 years.
As they are set here is that they are hard limits. So anything in the limits must be that year in length. I think we should keep it this way.

[Drew]

let's get this season started with some clarity around rules... i'll post several others in separate threads to be addressed individually.

3. PENALTY FOR EXCEEDING CAP MAXIMUM?

this needs to be agreed to before FA and rules updated.

Need something for off-season and in-season.

Off-season
- loss of something

In-season
- lose week or whatever

[PigsRule]

actually, i think in franchise we need to use the NHL rule of loosening cap restrictions during off-season, but 100% in effect during the season (1st reg.season gm until FNHL playoffs completed).

that said, we should still control over spending during the off-season

proposed:
* a 10% over/under during off-season

[Drew]

let's get this season started with some clarity around rules... i'll post several others in separate threads to be addressed individually.

2. ROOKIE CONTRACT designation on team pages

do we need a new way of designating rookie contracts on team pages since the old method (ex.P-2012) led to miscommunication and different interpretations?

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Are prospect contracts any different then regular contracts, why not just use the same format as normal contracts?

[Drew]

actually, i think in franchise we need to use the NHL rule of loosening cap restrictions during off-season, but 100% in effect during the season (1st reg.season gm until FNHL playoffs completed).

that said, we should still control over spending during the off-season

proposed:
* a 10% over/under during off-season

I think if the 10% means that a team can go over that much in free agent bidding it isn't worth it.

[PigsRule]

initially, rc contracts were different... P-2012 designation.
from a processing standpt, they also get different contract values and length. 

Q: is it of any use?
A: Yes, especially if we want to introduce the proposed "RFA Offer Sheet" rule, then teams will know which players are eligible to get an Offer Sheet.

reco: we keep this special rc contract designation to id RFA status.

[PigsRule]

2 reasons why we should do this:

(1) franchise needs to differentiate itself from other hky leagues on profsl. otherwise, they all play the same.

(2) this overage allowance especially during the off-season is in-line with NHL practice.

ppl like mimicing the big league not to mention this loosens restricting + allows for some additional activity during the slower offseason by teams.

i recommend we implement this rule starting this coming FA period.

[PigsRule]

let's get this season started with some clarity around rules... i'll post several others in separate threads to be addressed individually.

7. Restriction on Entry to Franchise NHL (strongly enforced)


everyone in Franchise NHL, especially the vets who've been here from the early stages want a competitive and successful dynasty league with the full 30-teams.

to do that, this league needs to start enforcing entry requirements to knowledgeable owners and advanced fantasy hockey people.

i understand profsl is still in it's infancy but with the existing core of owners we have here, we can definitely RECRUIT top owners who want to be act and compete hard, go hard at rebuilding a crippled team, fight for players during FA, be aggressive with trade activity...

need to implement restrict entry requirements:
1) only new owners referred by long standing franchise owners can join
2) must answer some basic + easy hockey based Q's (open ended: best NHL team 5 yrs from now... and why?)
3) cannot be a non-hockey guy "trying" fantasy hockey

thoughts, comments, input...

[PigsRule]

Here's a thread for topics/matters to be reviewed and decided on...

see posts below. topics to be posted individually and created as locked posts for mod/commish access only.