i wanna play..
how do u play?
In a nutshell, on January 20 all members who are participating will be assigned a team. Beginning with a team's "real life" roster, you select 2 players that you would like to keep. You announce who those two players are by January 29 (i.e., if you were the Magic, you might decide to keep Dwight Howard and Rashard Lewis.)
Once we have all the "keepers" selected, we'll do a draft with all the left over players. You'd be given a draft slot based on your team's order of finish last year; the draft order is on the first page of this thread. Then, when it's your turn to select, you can pick any player who hasn't been selected yet.
You can build a team however you like. You can decide to build a team of the future, a win now team, a team that has a lot of cap space next year, etc., etc. The freedom is all yours. Trades are permitted at any time after the first round; you can trade players, picks, or any combination thereof.
Let me know if you have any more questions.
Gainesville Celtic reporting for duty ---- even if i'm not 100% clear on the rules.
Sorry if i'm being dense... I'm clear on all but this from the OP:
Existing contracts are kept, and after all salaries are drafted, existing salary cap rules will go into effect. The only caveat is that teams will enjoy a right-of-first-refusal on any contract signed by one of the two players they kept for the rest of their career.
Does this mean, for example, I couldn't deal Derrick Rose (rookie contract) for KG.... i.e. that trades have to work under the salary cap rules 125% +/- 100K?
And the right-of-first refusal part .... is this a "keeper" fake fantasy league... i.e. we'll be signing FAs next summer?!
either way....I'm in.