New CBA, two-way players & other summer 2023 prep
Apr 12, 2023 17:53:36 GMT 1
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Post by Daniel (commish, agent) on Apr 12, 2023 17:53:36 GMT 1
Thanks largely to Joni, the spreadsheet and Fantrax are now ready for the draft and free agency. Myself, I've refreshed the forum and updated the owners' cap section (keeping the average allowed tax constant).
Given how strapped you all will soon become with the 2nd apron and whatnot, it's time: inspired by trip to the Finals, I'm finally adding two-way players!
Judging from Coon 82 & 83, it's very simple. We add them on Fantrax as regular players, and in the team sheets in the 3 special slots.
They don't count as salaries. They can be converted into MPE at any point if you have a roster spot. (Still max 15 there.) Only then they're available for the Playoffs. If they aren't, we should probably manually drop them from Fantrax in February as a reminder. In fact, the team sheets are ready. Thoughts?
Invariably, recruiting is where help is badly needed, so everybody please go ahead and spam on your favourite forum, social media stream, or family reunion. We'll die if we can't find new people soon. The underlined part of the opening post here shows where I need your recruiting help the most.
State of the union: 6 confirmed orphans - 4 contenders +
New CBA rules, based mostly on this, since the rest of the internet is still learning how to use bullet points. On the plus side, players will no longer be tested for marijuana use. These will make your life more difficult though:
Second tax apron
Salary cap changes
Free agency and contract-related changes
Trade rules
Two-way players
Please post below any news/questions/errors.
Given how strapped you all will soon become with the 2nd apron and whatnot, it's time: inspired by trip to the Finals, I'm finally adding two-way players!
Judging from Coon 82 & 83, it's very simple. We add them on Fantrax as regular players, and in the team sheets in the 3 special slots.
They don't count as salaries. They can be converted into MPE at any point if you have a roster spot. (Still max 15 there.) Only then they're available for the Playoffs. If they aren't, we should probably manually drop them from Fantrax in February as a reminder. In fact, the team sheets are ready. Thoughts?
Invariably, recruiting is where help is badly needed, so everybody please go ahead and spam on your favourite forum, social media stream, or family reunion. We'll die if we can't find new people soon. The underlined part of the opening post here shows where I need your recruiting help the most.
State of the union: 6 confirmed orphans - 4 contenders +
New CBA rules, based mostly on this, since the rest of the internet is still learning how to use bullet points. On the plus side, players will no longer be tested for marijuana use. These will make your life more difficult though:
Second tax apron
- Kicking in 12 months from now - safe to ignore here.
Salary cap changes
- Note to self: The luxury tax brackets, previously at $5MM intervals above the tax line, will now increase at the same rate of the salary cap.
- TBA: A new cap exception will be introduced for second-round picks so that teams no longer need to use cap room or the mid-level exception to give those players salaries worth more than the rookie minimum or deals longer than two years. The exception will allow teams to offer a salary up to the equivalent of the veteran’s minimum for a third-year player and a deal covering up to four years.
- Most importantly: Teams will become hard-capped at the first tax apron if they take back more than 110% of the salary they send out in a trade. I suspect this might completely derail that recently proposed 4-way trade btw.
Free agency and contract-related changes
- A player signing a veteran contract extension will be allowed to receive 140% of his previous salary in the first year of a new extension instead of 120%. Our expectation is that players earning less than the NBA’s average salary will be able to make up to 140% (instead of 120%) of the average salary in the first year of a veteran extension, though that has yet to be confirmed.
- Players will be permitted to sign rookie scale extensions of up to five years (instead of four) even if the extension is worth less than the maximum salary.
- The qualifying offer amount for restricted free agents will increase by 10% over its usual scale amount.
- The time a team has to match an offer sheet for a restricted free agent will be reduced from 48 hours to 24 hours.
- Teams will no longer face restrictions on how many players on Designated Rookie or Designated Veteran contracts they can carry.
- Teams will be permitted to begin negotiating with their own free agents one day after the NBA Finals conclude.
- Teams above either tax apron also won’t be able to take back more salary than they send out in any trade and will be limited to a lesser form of the taxpayer mid-level exception. That new MLE will be worth $5MM and can’t be used for deals exceeding two years.
Trade rules
- Easy for us: During the 2023/24 year, teams above either tax apron will only be permitted to take back up to 110% of their outgoing salary in a trade, rather than 125%.
- Easy for us: Starting in the 2024 offseason, teams above either tax apron will only be permitted to take back up to 100% of their outgoing salary in a trade.
- TBA: There will be a limit on how many minimum-salary players can be aggregated for salary-matching purposes during offseason trades.
Two-way players
- Teams will be permitted to carry three players on two-way contracts instead of two. That means the in-season roster limit will increase to 18 players (instead of 17) and the offseason roster limit will be 21 players (instead of 20).
Please post below any news/questions/errors.