2011 Free Agency

While the draft hasn't been finished yet, we all have a good idea of about how much cap room we have, so I'll throw this up early:

Free agency is upon us. It's that time of year where you all get to send me 800 different bids for players (but seriously, please don't send that many). I know all of you know how this works, and yet I'm sure I'll send at least half of you replies about something with your bids being wrong. So before you bid, please ask yourself a few questions:
 
Do I have cap room?

Category 1 - Yes, more than 4,500,000
You can offer contracts as normal. You cannot offer anything bigger than your cap space (unless you have bird rights, see below). The max contract is 14,511,000 for anyone who would warrant it in this free agency class. The max increase is 10% per year (again, unless you have bird rights, see below). You cannot offer an MLE or LLE.
 
Category 2 - Yes, but more than 1,200,000 and less than 4,500,000
You can offer contracts up to your cap space as well as the MLE and minimum contracts (again, unless you have bird rights, see below).
 
Category 3 - No or Yes, but less than 1,200,000
You can offer the MLE, LLE, and minimum contracts.
 
Do I have bird rights on this player?

Category 1 - Yes, 3+
You can offer as high as a maximum contract for 5 years regardless of if you are over the cap with as high as 12.5% increases.
 
Category 2 - Yes, 1 or 2
You can offer 110% of his previous contract for 4 years regardless of if you have cap room or not, with as high as 10% increases.
 
Category 3 - No, he wasn't on my team last year
You can't go over the cap to sign this player (unless you use your MLE, LLE, or minimum) and you can only offer a 4 year deal.
 
And for the future....
 
I just signed Joakim Noah, why is he not on my team?

Certain players in this class are restricted free agents (the full list can be found here). In order to sign them to an offer sheet, you must offer something of greater starting value than what their cap hold is in that thread. If you do manage to sign the player, his original team has 24 hours to match the offer. If they do, he goes back to their team, no questions asked. 

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For those of you wondering, MLE ($4.5 M) and LLE ($1.2 M) players are NOT tradeable under any circumstance. You're stuck with them for the year. Think about that before you offer the contract. No, you cannot offer multi-year MLE's and no, you cannot split them between players. You CANNOT offer a restricted free agent the MLE or LLE. These 4.5 and 1.2 contracts are scaled up once they are signed.
 
Remember, all bids are sent to me via private message ON THIS SITE. Bids sent via groupme will be ignored. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE send them in alphabetical order by FIRST NAME. You will have a chance to submit new bids at certain intervals. Please keep them in the same private message. Also, please make sure you are sending the STARTING year amount of the contract, and not the TOTAL contract amount.

There's probably an error or two in here, but you get the idea. I'll probably add stuff in at some point too. Feel free to ask me any questions.

DAY 1 RESULTS: http://www.sportsinsomnia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=112111&p=5967320
DAY 2/3 RESULTS: http://www.sportsinsomnia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=112111&p=5967439
DAY 4/5 RESULTS: http://www.sportsinsomnia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=112111&p=5967685

So we can't offer our own RFA's if we're over the cap?

Teagz said:

So we can't offer our own RFA's if we're over the cap?

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Not unless you have the sufficient bird rights.

Teagz said:

So we can't offer our own RFA's if we're over the cap?

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Nevermind I'm an idiot who can't read.

3+ birds can also offer more than max; 120% of salary paid in the last year of prior contract, for first year salary of new contract

He forgot to tell yall not to offer Tyson

How many days at a time are you planning to sim? 1?

First sim will be day 1 only

DAY 1:

2011 181 Cavaliers Sign SF Wilson Chandler for $66,750,600 over 4 years. (RFA) -- MATCHED
2011 181 Nets Sign C Marc Gasol for $51,532,521 over 4 years. (RFA) -- MATCHED
2011 181 Cavaliers Sign SG Shannon Brown for $40,000,000 over 4 years.
2011 181 Hawks Sign SG Corey Brewer for $22,504,300 over 3 years. (RFA)
2011 181 Nuggets Sign PG Jason Williams for 1 year minimum.
2011 181 Hawks Sign SF Danny Green for $22,504,300 over 3 years.
2011 181 Cavaliers Sign PG Sergio Rodriguez for $4,500,000 over 3 years.
2011 181 Trail Blazers Sign SF Nick Young for $16,550,000 over 3 years.
2011 181 Timberwolves Sign C Hamed Haddadi for MLE.
2011 181 Nets Sign C Greg Stiemsma for $25,475,442 over 3 years. (RFA)
2011 181 Suns Sign SG Michael Redd for 1 year minimum.
2011 181 Spurs Sign SG Larry Hughes for LLE.
2011 181 Warriors Sign PF Reggie Evans for $3,000,000 over one year.
2011 181 Spurs Sign SG Marco Belinelli for $15,000,000 over 3 years.
2011 181 Bulls Sign PF Hedo Turkoglu for 1 year minimum.
2011 181 Spurs Sign PF Tim Thomas for 1 year minimum.

Biggest storyline of day 1;

Cavs winners/losers?

Lost Green 
 
damn

The Mavericks will match Marc Gasol's offer-sheet.

Nice deals for Steisma and Green. Wonder if Houston matches for Willy Chandler

Much needed help on the wings.

Pretty good first day for the Hawks indeed

Will Houston match

DubC may be worth it after tcs

Good valu deal for Gasol too

dez said:

Good valu deal for Gasol too

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I tried to get him for REAL cheap hahaha. Both the Nets and Hawks came in at the last minute and made me pay

Wasnt Green a RFA?

I figured not many would offer him for some reason..I was thinking bout it but figured it would hurt my chances at resigning pat