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Revision as of 16:03, 19 July 2021
Note: This page is a Sandbox used to test formatting for potential updates to the Team Staff Resource. This page is very much a WIP, and you should use the main resource page or speak to the committee or commissioners if you have any questions.
The Team Staff Resource is a guide to the yearly schedule of the Furry Basketball Association, and team staff members' responsibilities throughout the season.
Team Staff
Team Staff members are responsible for running their team throughout the year. Team Staff are divided up into two Roles: Primary Contact and Secondary Contact.
Primary Contact
The Primary Contact (PC) has final say on any and all decisions regarding their team.
Ahead of each off-season, contributors can apply to be PCs for any team that does not currently have one. A PC is entitled to continue managing their team for 3 seasons. After this, they can choose to continue to run their chosen team, but other contributors can request to take over for them.
The PC is responsible for many tasks, all of which are outlined in further detail below. Here is an abbreviated list of yearly tasks that PCs perform:
- Free agent offers
- Draft night selections
- Day to day roster rotations (gameplan for games and moving injured players to the bench)
- Respond to trade requests (either accepting, denying, or negotiating them)
- Submit player stat boosts (happens 3 times a year)
- Be reachable on Discord for your team's contributors
Secondary Contact
The Secondary Contact (SC for short) is an individual that the Primary Contact selects to serve as a backup in cases where the Primary Contact is unreachable. The Secondary Contact may also take on specific tasks as agreed upon with the Primary Contact.
Each PC and SC pair decide how they'd like to divide up team responsibilities. For example, the SC might act as a head coach, and handle day to day roster updates. Or perhaps the Secondary Contact handles all signing and player boosts, leaving the Primary Contact to work on developing storylines for the team.
While the PC and SC determine how to divide responsibilities together, the Primary Contact is ultimately responsible for the team. The Commissioners and Committee will look to the Primary Contact first to resolve matters involving the team.
The FBA Season
The FBA calendar has four main phases: Free Agency (also known as the Off-Season), Preseason, the Regular Season, and the Playoffs (also known as the Post-Season).
Free Agency
Free agency normally takes place in late summer and early fall. It is the season when team staff build their team for the coming season.
The main components of free agency are making contract offers, negotiating trades with other teams, and planning for Draft Night. All of these actions are done while also managing the team's salary cap, both for the current and upcoming seasons.
For the rest of this section, we will play out some free agency actions from a made up FBA team, The Whitehorse Blackouts, during the 2021 free agency period. These examples are contained in the Example boxes.
Salary Caps
The salary cap is the maximum amount of money that a team can pay out on players' contacts in a given year.
Every year, teams have a budget of $90m to spend on players' salaries. At the start of free agency, some of this budget will already be allocated to spend on a team's existing contracts, as well as their draft picks for the coming season. The money that's left is what is available for offering new contracts.
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Each team's page contains a table that details their salary for the current season. Below is the salary cap table for the Whitehorse Blackouts at the beginning of free agency.
In the above example, the Blackouts have a total of $90.0m for the season. $71.5m is already allocated for their players' pre-existing contracts, as well as the salaries of any players they will draft this season. As shown, this leaves the Blackouts with $18.5m to use at the start of free agency. Each team's page also contains a table detailing each player's salaries. Below are the Whitehorse Blackouts' current contracted players coming into the 2021 free agency period.
The table shows all players that are currently on contract with the Blackouts, as well as their salary for each year of their contract. In most cases, a team can only have 15 players on their roster for a year. As a note, the Blackouts' 2021 contracts only add up to $66.0m, but their current Contracts Paid value is $71.5m. The remaining $5.5m is allocated to the Blackouts' 2021 draft picks, which we will cover below. |
Exceeding Salary Cap
A team can increase or decrease their salary cap from $90m via trades, which we'll cover below.
It's also possible for a team to exceed their salary cap. If a team winds up in a position where their total contracts paid exceeds their total cap, the team's trades are locked down until the situation is resolved. They can make trades to either reduce their contracts paid or increase their cap space, but they are not allowed to make any trades that don't contribute to solving the problem.
A team that starts the season having exceeded their cap space, or that winds up in a position during the regular season where they've exceeded their cap space and don't resolve the situation in a timely manner, is excluded from participating in the playoffs.
Contract Offers
The bulk of free agency involves team contacts making contract offers to players with no current contract (free agents). When a free agent accepts a contract offer from a team, they move onto the team's roster, and their salary comes out of the team's available budget.
There are two types of free agents:
- Unrestricted free agents (or FAs) are players that have had a contract during the past season. Contracts for FAs can last from 1 to 5 years. The maximum salary for an FA in a single year is $30.0m.
- Restricted free agents (or RFAs) are players that have not had a contract during the past season. Contracts for RFAs are all for 1 year at $1.0m.
To submit a contract offer, a team contact goes to the player's wiki page, and clicks on the 'Submit Contract' button at the top of the page. They then fill in the amount of money they're offering to the player for each given year of the proposed contract.
In the Comments section, the team contact can put any additional information that they'd like. This can include an in-character appeal from the team's general manager or head coach. It can also include in-character additional perks for the player, like promises of access to certain facilities, personalized trainers, etc.
Contract offers open up in late August or early September. Players cannot accept contract offers until after the first night of the draft. The deadline to accept contract offers is often in late September. A player's actor can review the player's offers during this time. Upon deciding which contract to accept for their player, the actor emails the commissioners with their approval. In this scenario, only the player's actor has to provide approval.
Current contract offers for the preseason are tracked on the Contract Offers page of the Wiki, under the Regular Season section of the sidebar. All Open Offers are in the table on the left, including the contract's duration and total value. Once a contract is accepted, all offers for the player in question are removed from the Open Offers, and the accepted contract moves to the table on the right under Accepted Offers.
If a team needs to update an offer, they should create a new contract offer rather than updating the old offer. If they need to withdraw their offer for any reason, they should go to their most recent contract offer for the character in question, and clear out the page. Remember, people will assume that your most recently submitted contract offer for a player is the correct one.
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| The Whitehorse Blackouts want to sign Player 14 to their team. Player 14 played for a team during the 2020-21 season, and as such is an unrestricted free agent. The Blackouts want Player 14 for three years, and are willing to pay them $4.0m per year. The team contact fills in '4' for the years 2021, 2022, and 2023.
Player 14's actor reviews the offer from the Blackouts. They like it, so they send an email to the commissioners stating that they accept the offer. Upon the actor's approval, Player 14 moves onto the Whitehorse Blackout's roster.
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Trades
A trade involves two or more teams exchanging assets. While most trades occur during the Free Agency period, trades can continue into the regular season.
Trades normally involve team contacts from two teams negotiating out a fair exchange in private. Trades can involve:
- Players
- Current or future year cap space
- Current or future year draft picks
After the team contacts agree on a trade, they must reach out to the commissioners to announce and confirm the trade. At this point, the commissioners will review the trade for fairness and compliance with the rules. If the commissioners decide the trade is reasonable, they will process it.
In this scenario, the team contacts from both teams need to send their approval.
Trades can involve more than two teams. In these cases, the team contacts from all teams involved must send their approval.
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The Whitehorse Blackouts know that Player 15, a player for the Wichita Mariners, would help complete their starting lineup. One of the Blackouts' team contacts reaches out to the Mariners' contacts, and offers them Player 7 for Player 15, as well as $2.0M of the Mariners' 2021 and 2022 cap space. After some discussion, the Wichita Mariners' team contacts agree to the trade. The Whitehorse Blackouts' contacts then email the commissioners, proposing the trade. The Wichita Mariners' tea, contacts reach out to confirm the trade. The commissioners review the trade, determine that it's fair and won't violate any other rules, and approve it:
As a note, part of the trade involved $2.0M of the Whitehorse Blackouts' 2022 cap space. As a result of this, the Blackouts will start the 2022 Free Agency period with $88.0m of total cap, and the Mariners will start with $92.0m of total cap. |
Sign-and-Trade
A sign-and-trade is an exchange where a team signs back a player whose contract has just ended with them, and then immediately trades that player to another team.
Sign-and-trades are important during Free Agency, as they are the only contract offers that an FA can accept ahead of draft night. Because of this, sign-and-trades can take valuable FAs out of the pool early.
When negotiating a sign-and-trade, the player being signed has to provide their approval for the transaction. Once the two teams negotiating the sign-and-trade and the player being signed and traded come to an agreement, one of the team contacts must reach out to the commissioners to propose the sign-and-trade. After this, the contacts for the other team and the player's actor approve the trade. As per usual, the commissioners review the exchange for fairness before approving the trade.
In this scenario, the team contacts for both teams and the actor for the player being signed and traded need to send their approval.
Draft Night
Draft Night is an annual event when teams sign rookie players to contracts.
Draft Night occurs in early September, spread across two evenings. 24 players are drafted each night of the draft, for a total of 48 draftees.
During the draft, the teams take turns selecting draftees from the pool of available draftees. After each selection, the next team has a set amount of time (normally a few minutes) to provide their selection to the commissioners. In the event that a team's staff cannot attend draft night, there will be a form they can fill out to indicate which draftee they would like to sign, in ranked order.
After the draft has finished, any remaining draftees that went undrafted become RFAs and become open for contract offers.
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Draft Order
Draft order is determined by teams' records from the previous season, in reverse order. The team with the best record from the previous season drafts players at 24th and 48th, the team with the second best record drafts players at 23rd and 47th, etc.
The first 8 picks are determined by a lottery. At the end of each season, the 8 teams that did not qualify for playoffs are entered into a lottery to determine the draft order for the top 8 picks.
Additional Rules
Buying-Out Players
When a team buys out a player, they pay out the sum total of the remainder of the player's contract using the current year's budget, and immediately release the player from their contract.
Players that are bought out of their contracts become FAs.
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The Amnesty Rule
The Amnesty Rule allows a primary contact to cancel a single contract at no cost. Each PC only gets one use of the Amnesty Rule for their team, and it must be used during free agency. The Amnesty Rule cannot be used on a rookie contract, or on any player signed during the current free agency period or season.
To initiate a use of the Amnesty Rule, a team contact must email the commissioners with their request. In this scenario, only the team contact has to provide approval.
Renegotiations
A contract renegotiation is an additional option for teams or players to cancel contracts. Contracts can only be renegotiated during Free Agency. Either a team contact or a player's actor can initiate a renegotiation, and they do not need the other party's approval.
The following conditions must be met for a contract to be renegotiated:
- The player must have completed two (2) seasons of their contract
- The player must have at least two (2) season left on their contract
- A team could only initiate one (1) Renegotiation each off-season
After renegotiation, the remaining years of the player's contract are cancelled. The player becomes an FA, with the restriction that they can only be offered a maximum of a 2-year contract.
As the name suggests, renegotiations can lead to a player remaining with their current team, just with an adjusted contract.
To initiate a renegotiation, either the player's actor or a team contact must reach out to the commissioners and notify them about the renegotiation. In this scenario, either the player's actor or a team contact must provide their approval - not both.
The Underwood Rule
The Underwood Rule is a rule that states that no team may have more than 5 players of the same species family. Any team that begins the regular season in violation of this rule, or that comes into a situation during the season where they're in violation of the rule, will be ineligible for playoffs.
The Underwood Rule is named after Ned Underwood, one of the in-universe founders of the league.
Hybrid Species
Hybrids count against ALL species involved for the Underwood Rule. For example, a wolf-hyena hybrid would count as both one canine and one hyenadae.
As a note, after a league vote during the 2017-18 season, the only hybrids allowed moving forward are those of the same family. The family classification rule for hybrids is for any characters that were grandfathered in under the league vote.
Legendary Species
For purposes of the Underwood Rule, the following legendary species are classified as the following:
- Unicorn: Equidae
- Pegi: Equidae / Aves
- Hypogryphs: Equidae / Accitripidae
- Dragon: Varanidae (lizard)
- East Dragon: Varanidae
- Hippogryph: Accipitridae Equidae
- Gryphon: Accipitridae Felidae
- Phoenix: Accitripidae
- Cockatrice: Chicken
- Basilisk: Varanidae (lizard)
- Manticore: Felidae (Lion) / Scorpion