Day 1 Free Agency Results

[MagicGM]

jeez.. I miss Henson, Boris and Q..

[OldNuggetsGM]

Poor Hawks.  They signed NOONE.  I thought for sure they had Pavel until Hornets came in with an outrageous 1 year deal.

Cavs got Vince literally at the last minute.  Clippers owe me for delaying the sim, and Cavs owe the Clips for causing me to delay the sim.

So somebody owes me for losing Boykins then, as it appears he would've been back had Nets not delayed the sim.  

[NetsGM]

Yup, because had I not delayed the sim, I would have probably gotten Gordon.

So, in essence:
Losers: Hawks, Nets, Nuggets
Winners: Clippers, Cavs

[OldNuggetsGM]

Well well well.

It appears I found a flaw in the game.

If you have cap room offered to multiple free agents, if they all decide on the same day, you can sign more than the caproom you have.

For my example, I signed Earl Boykins for 14 million.  That should have effectively taken away all my cap space.  But I was still able to sign Salmons, Lo and Turkoglu (whom I had made offers for as failsafes if none of the big 3 signed).

I'll have to add this to the rules page.  It certainly would have altered my strategy had I known.  I thought once your cap space is used, it's used.  but it appears it can only go by how much cap room you had before that FA day.

When you say alter the rules page, you mean outlawing this in the future, right?  I can think of multiple ways that this can be abused.

[RaptorsGM]

Well well well.

It appears I found a flaw in the game.

If you have cap room offered to multiple free agents, if they all decide on the same day, you can sign more than the caproom you have.

For my example, I signed Earl Boykins for 14 million.  That should have effectively taken away all my cap space.  But I was still able to sign Salmons, Lo and Turkoglu (whom I had made offers for as failsafes if none of the big 3 signed).

I'll have to add this to the rules page.  It certainly would have altered my strategy had I known.  I thought once your cap space is used, it's used.  but it appears it can only go by how much cap room you had before that FA day.

When you say alter the rules page, you mean outlawing this in the future, right?  I can think of multiple ways that this can be abused.

You can't outlaw it. The only way to make sure it doesn't happen is to only allow teams with cap room to make 1 offer. That's not fair.

[NetsGM]

unfortunately there's no way for me to outlaw this.  it's the way the game's programmed.

How free agency works is I enter in all the bid information.  Then when everything's entered, I hit "Run FA Decisions".  There's no step that allows me to decline, edit, or monitor transactions.

One second all bids are entered an no decisions made.  Next second all decisions are made.  Nothing inbetween.

[BullsGM-old]

Nets, how can you consider yourself a 'loser' (on the same scale as the Hawks and Nuggets, who really got screwed) on the assumption that Gordon would have signed with you?  Theres no way of knowing that

You had one of the better first days in Free Agency, comparing it to the Hawks is ridiculous

[MavsGM]

Hey Nuggets, what contract did you offfer Boykins?

[RaptorsGM]

WOW.

The Nuggets are RIGHT ON the cap number.

[MavsGM]

With one roster space left, Mavs got Evan Eschmeyer with MLE.  He is a vet and knows how to win in the playoffs.  Won a championship with the Jazz last year.  I'm done with FA, waiting for TC and sim one.

[OldNuggetsGM]

Hey Nuggets, what contract did you offfer Boykins?

since it doesn't matter anymore, 3 years and 33 million.  somebody may have trumped me besides Nets, but I doubt it based on previous cap situations.

btw, I fully expected to lose Boykins; it was losing Vince that shocked me.

[KingsGM-old]

Oh mine, i didn't even realize you lost both of them. You have no backourts whatsoever! That really sucks.

[NetsGM]

Bulls: I said I was a loser in the delaying the sim move.  I didn't say I was a loser on the first day of free agency.

Delaying the sim was bad for me.  The results of the delayed sim were still good.

[HornetsGM]

found it.

this save is right at day 1 of the 2006 season.  Right when Jem quit and Twan took over (it was the file I was going to re-start that league with, if we chose to do so).
http://ssba.phillyarena.net/files/oldleague/

(NOTE: it's now finished).

Man, this was right before I got Ben Wallace in a trade... Here was my DC after:

Ben Wallace: C D C- A+ A- C  
Amare Stoudamire: B+ C- D A- A-  
Glenn Robinson: B A- C A- C
Jason Richardson: B A C+ A- C
Jamal Crawford: C A- B+ A- D+

Off the bench-
Eric Dampier: B- C- D- A- B+
Keith Van Horn: B B C- B- C+
Sean Dockery: C- A C B C

I won the last championship in that league, and I was due for a couple more I think. Oh well....

[CavsGM]

Ah, brings back a lot of memories...

Magloire/Haywood
Kirilenko/Harvey
Odom/Wally
Hughes/Manu
Shannon/Daniels