Franchise NHL - Questions Section

[snugerud]

how is the draft order determined?

[Mariner]

Last year's standings

[PigsRule]

Last year's standings

:judge:
that's it!

[PigsRule]

looks like the :MON-NHL: team pg link in the icon area has been resolved.

now if we can just get the profsl boys to fix the fantrax redirect properly.

[PigsRule]

looks like the :MON-NHL: team pg link in the icon area has been resolved.

now if we can just get the profsl boys to fix the fantrax redirect properly.

looks like our FNHL fantrax redirect link in the header is fixed and everyone should have no problem navigating to our FNHL fantrax site. Thx Colby + Corey! :thumbsup:

[snugerud]

Sorry to hi-jack the thread but doesnt both those players still have a year left on their contract?  Are you saying we can offer an extension to any player under contract even if it ends up less than what they are making?

just need to understand for strategy reasons.

[Mariner]

I was just reading the rules regarding extensions and I am a bit confused. It clearly says that you have to wait until the 15th day into the season before you can start offering extensions. We have officially "rolled over" into a new year earlier this month did'nt we? So would we not be using this current year and 2011-12 to determine extension value? We cannot use this current year until the 15th day into it according to the rules.

[izaman3]

I think I can explain.

As of 8/4/12 we are in the 12/13 fantasy season, and as such all players with contracts that state (2012-2013) are now in the final year of their contract.

We are currently in a off-season FA which technically takes place in the before the official hockey season begins. This league has a transaction freeze at beginning of the official NHL season. There is no signing of FA during this period, and there are also no extensions. Once the official NHL season begins, you can't wait a few games and try to extend a player at the rank they are currently at, you must wait 2 weeks. This is to prevent people from using the 2011-2012 season and a few games of 2012-2013.

Right now we can extend because it is the 2012-2013 season and we are using 2 whole season of data to extend, the 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 seasons.

Because extensions begin immediately, any extension at a lower value does in fact provide a lower cap hit.

I really didn't want other GMs to catch onto this because I wanted to keep this info limited and thus more to my advantage. But there it is.

Here are the rules:

Extensions:  Teams may offer players extensions at any time with the exception of the start of the season when teams must wait 14-days (the player extension can be posted on the 15th day after the start of the season) for current season's stats to accumulate and be used to rank players.  Contract value must be equal to or higher than the highest ‘position ranking’ within the past two seasons (including the current season).  If a player has two positions, the contract must be equal to, or greater than, the higher salary of the two positions.  Extensions must still follow contract rules regarding contract length. 

Only players in the final year of their current contract are eligible for extensions.  All contract extensions begin immediately (with the exception of the off-season period when the current year's contract must expire prior to the new contract taking effect) and replace current contracts. 

Prospects can be signed to extensions in the final year of their deal. But the rates will follow normal extension rates.

[Mariner]

These are the same rules I was reading. My question is now that we are officially into the 2012-13 season, do the rankings from 2010-11 still apply or are they now irrelevent? Or are they still revelent for extensions until the games actually start and then a 15 day freeze once the NHL games actually begin? It just seems to me using the ranks from the same years (2010-11 and 2011-12) to determine extensions for players with contracts ending in 2011-12, where we had to get them in before the new hockey year in franchise started, and then using the same years for players with contracts ending in 2012-13 is wrong. However it is not a huge deal for me, I am good with it either way. I am just looking for clarity.

[izaman3]

These ratings still apply.

Think of it this way, when players are getting extended in real life, it actually happens similar to this. Players in the season that just ended can be extended up until July 1st, then FA starts. Then players in the last year of their contracts start negotiating.

Jeff Skinner and Sydney Crosby just signed new extensions. Jeff Skinner only has 2 season of stats to negotiate with. If he would have waited and played part of this upcoming season, maybe he could have gotten monster numbers and been on higher than a point per game pace, this would give him more leverage in his new contract.

I think these rules closely mimic the real NHL and thus add to the realism and complexity that this league has.