BEE’S KICKASS HOCKEY LEAGUE – RULES & REGULATIONS
GENERAL RULES1. Rosters will be based solely on the 2011 Rating Package offered by Simon T
2. Each team is responsible to ice 12 forwards, 6 defensemen and 2 goaltenders at all time at both NHL and AHL levels
3. Maximum team roster size, including both NHL and AHL is 50 contracts
4. No team may be moved from their current city, at either level
STAFFDarby-pens - Simmer Co-Commissioner
Beedub – Co-Commissioner
AuthorityZero - Forum Administrator
Indy19 – admin staff (trades, waivers, etc.)
SensGirl11 – admin staff (trades, waivers, etc.)
SpezDispenser – admin staff (trades, waivers, etc.)
LEAGUE START UPThe league will be comprised of 20 teams. The order of team selection shall be pre-ordained by random.org.
Upon start up, all 30 teams will exist. General Managers will select their team, leaving 10 teams. These 10 teams will be contracted, and players dispersed via a dispersal draft.
The dispersal draft will comprise of a snake-style draft, commencing in reverse order to the team selection order. The dispersal draft will consist of 6 rounds only. Any players remaining from the contracted teams will automatically become UFA.
Each team, one time only, will be granted 3 player releases, in order to accommodate for the players arriving via dispersal draft.
The players eligible for release must be 35 years old or younger, and must not have a salary exceeding $3 million.
This limitation is put in place to prevent GM’s from ditching ‘anchor’ contracts. It is merely intended to create roster space for dispersal draft players.
DRAFTSEntry Drafts will be conducted every sim season, Odds one season and evens the next season. We will determine which draft class comes first by random.org.
The draft order will be determined by the standings at the end of the regular season preceeding the draft
Each draft will be 5 rounds in length only, and each team will have a pick in each round.. These picks are available to trade.
WAIVERSWaivers will be in play for this league. The criteria will be age, skill, and salary based.
Any player up to and including age 24 are able to be travel from NHL to AHL and back without waivers, regardless of salary, provided they do not exceed the performance limitation, as set forth below
Any player from the ages of 25 + will be eligible to be waived, provided their salary is less than $3 million per season, and provided they do not exceed the performance limits set forth below.
They will have to be declared as waived, and a 48 hour window from this declaration (a post on the forum) must pass before they can join your AHL team. They are subject to claim by all 19 other teams (a waiver order will be posted)
Skaters with an overall rating of 68 and higher are ineligible for the minors, regardless of age.
Goaltenders with an overall of 76 and higher are also ineligible for the minors, regardless of age.
* Players who are below the cut-off prior to the start of the season, but who through rerates exceed the limit, are permitted to remain in the AHL without fear of having them forced up until the following season. Players who have exceeded the performance limitation however, who are called up, must clear waivers to go back down. So it is at the GM's discretion if they intend to risk losing a player in this manner.
TRADES
Trades must be posted by an admin. Once you have come to an agreement on a trade with another General Manager, please send a PM to one of the admin, who will post it for you. Once a trade is posted, it becomes official and cannot be rescinded.
The admins do have veto power, but will only exercise this power if it is felt amongst the admin that the trade is indicative of a GM who is intent on destroying their team
Trades will be inputted to the SIM only after the following SIM.
You may trade coaches
IMPENDING FREE AGENTSAll resigns are done via portal.
1) The Old Man Rule *modified for year 5*
Players 36 years of age and older signing a 1 year deal will be eligible to receive a discount of 25% off of their contract, if they sign a 2 year deal they are eligible for a 10% discount. These will be applied when I enter the contracts into the sim contracts 3 years or long will not be eligible for a discount
2) Second Contract Rule *modified for year 5*
Since all rookies receive 1 million dollar 3 year contracts if a player on his second contract signs a 1 or 2 year bridge deal and that deal is at least 4 million per season they will be eligible for a 50% reduction on that deal. These will be applied when I enter the contracts into the sim contracts 3 years or long will not be eligible for a discount
Both of these discount are only available for players you are resigning and are not applicable for players signed in the free agency this includes RFAs if they are not signed by the end of the playoffs they are not eligible.
RESTRICTED FREE AGENCYIf an RFA goes unsigned at the end of the year offers will be made through client these offers must be at least 10% more then the salary the player made in the previous season (if unsure of said salary just ask)
Teams will have 3 days to match offers
RFA until AGE 25
RFA’s will have compensation given to the team that owns the players rights.
These picks MUST be your own. This means you cannot even bid should you not have the prerequisite picks for compensation.
Teams submitting offer sheets must have the necessary draft picks outlined above and the picks must be their own (cannot be from other teams)
Current Averaged Salary----------Draft Pick Compensation
$2,500,000 and below--------------No compensation
$2,500,001 to $3,000,000--------- Third-round pick
$3,000,001 to $3,500,000----------Second-round pick
$3,500,001 to $5,000,000----------First- and third-round pick
$5,000,001 to $6,500,000----------First-, second-, and third-round pick
$6,500,001 to $9,000,000----------Two first-round picks and a second- and third-round pick
$9,000,001 and above--------------Four first-round picks
UNRESTRICTED FREE AGENCYUFA is done via the Client.
Teams will be able to bid on a maximum of 8 players on any day
24 hours after free agency opens winning bids will be posted and every day from there on out
Top bid will be for dollar value per year with a tiebreaker going to number of years and then to a random generator
A Team can go a max of 10% over the salary cap during the offseason when signing UFA this includes any players you wish to send to the farm. Once an update is done and the players a team sends those players to the farm then they may again go up to a max of 10% over.
When signing free agents they will be done from smallest contracts up to the largest contracts.
RFAs first followed by UFAs
The Max UFA Bid is 14 million
After signing a free agent to a new contract you will not be able to trade that player until they have played in 41 games for you (ahl or nhl or combination of both)SIGNING OOS OUT OF FA
OOS not in sim can only enter sim by signing not by Drafting
From the start of the pre season to the end of the playoffs any team finding an OOS not currently on another teams list can sign them exclusively
During the offseason OOS not on a teams roster can be signed but when posted any team wishing to sign the player can put in a claim. The player will be signed using a random generator with the team first posting the player have 2 chances where all other teams will have 1.
COACHESThe coach you have under contract at the Pro level is yours for the duration of his contract. You do have the option of replacing your coach, should you so choose. There are coaches who are not coaching, and they are all subsequently available. You can also hire another team's AHL coach.
You also have an AHL coach. These coaches are vulnerable to poaching for a pro level job. An AHL team cannot poach another AHL team's coach.
If you are seeking to replace your coach, place a reply in the Coaching Change thread.
LEAGUE RULESSalary cap for this league shall be $70,000,000, in season 4 in pro level, and $5,000,000 for AHL (remember that a player's AHL salary is 10% of his pro salary)
Cap floor will be $16,000,000 less then the salary cap for nhl
Cap will increase $2,000,000 every 3 seasons.
For the purposes of making life easier for GM’s, injuries shall be set to ‘off’ with the intent that this will remove the need for GM’s to submit line files as frequently.
All GM’s will be expected to submit line files. For those unable, please partner with someone who is able and who can submit a line file on your behalf
Goalies can start a
MAXIMUM of 72 Games. Backups must start at least 10 games a season. Goalies who play more than 72 games started will be suspended for the first round of the playoffs – Beedub will monitor this
Maximum rookie salary is $1million, 3 year term.
Max UFA salary is $14 million per season
Amnesty Clause must be used in Year 3 or 4 off-season (ONE per team) Once used you cannot acquire that player for one full season.
Any team that goes over the CAP will have 10 days to get it fixed or the suspended player will be released to FA which the owner of the team cannot bid on.
CHANGING/ADDING POSITIONSA request can be submitted to league offices to change a player's listed position to that of another however the requesting team must provide evidence of the player at the requested position. Evidence considered valid would come from a reputable source such as
www.tsn.ca, www.nhl.com, www.nhlpa.com, www.sportsnet.ca.
PLAYER CREATIONThis section is intended for prospects. There do exist certain non-prospect players who were not rated in the sim, as they likely did not play NHL hockey last year. They will be created on a case by case format.
For prospects who are not rated in-sim, a system has been in place to create them. In conjunction with HockeyFutures.com, the attributes of each player are created as follows:
This is not an exact science. If you compare your prospects final rating with the players bio on HF and find a discrepancy, please approach darby-pens and he will definitely take your input into consideration.
You can create as many Out Of Sim OOS, as you would like, while considering your max contract limit of 50. An OOS player doesn't count against this total until they are created.
Players signing as free agents that have out of date hf profiles ALA anton belov will not be created based on their hf ratings, but will be up to my discretion.
Forwards/Defence
9.0 = 64-65OV
8.5 = 62-63OV
8.0 = 61-62OV
7.5 = 60-61OV
7.0 = 59-60OV
6.5 = 58 OV
For goalies add 4 to 6 OV
by buckie54 Wed Oct 29, 2014 7:29 pm
