Post by Admin on Mar 22, 2013 13:27:08 GMT -5
11) Taxi Squad Players (TS)
a) Owners may designate 5 rookie players from their team to the Taxi Squad (TS) for development purposes. These players will be in addition to the 45 (in season) 50 (off season) main roster players.
b) The players will have a salary determined either by their draft position or by the free agent auction price.
c) Rookies demoted to the Taxi Squad as of August 15th will be assigned a 3 year contract.
d) The players salaries will increase by 10% each year just as every player, and their contracts will decrease by a year each March 1.
e) Players on the TS will count 25% towards the salary cap.
f) The team owner is responsible for demoting/promoting any drafted rookies or rookies acquired in the free agent auction to the TS .Each owner has until Aug15th whereby you can demote and promote rookies to the TS as many times as you like, but when demotions close on Aug15th, the player is locked on the TS until final promotion or he is dropped.Any player on the TS when demotions are closed/locked for the year must be given a 3 year contract. If a player is given a 1, 2, 4 or 5 year contract after being acquired in the free agent auction, they are ineligible.
g) Once this date has passed, no more demotions to the TS will be allowed until the following year's drafts begin.
h) Players on the TS may be cut at any point, without salary cap penalty.
i) i) Once a player - after he has been locked on the TS - is activated from the TS to the active roster, he is ineligible to return to the TS. This includes if the player is traded to another franchise or waived and subsequently picked up by another team owner.
j) Within 24 hours of being activated from the TS, any player regardless of the length of years left on their contract, is eligible to be extended.
k) As per Free Agency rules, any player on the TS whose contract expires on March 1 will be dropped.
l) Team owners have the ability to activate and sign TS players from other franchises in the league to their own active roster, as long as those players were not selected in the first round of their rookie draft.
m) The team owner activating/signing TS players from opposing franchises will pay the price of 2 draft picks to the franchise losing the TS Player; 1 draft pick from the same round the player was drafted, 1 draft pick from the round higher than the player was drafted.
Example: The price for a TS player drafted in the second round will be a 1st & 2nd round draft pick.
n) A team that is claiming the TS player may give up earlier round draft picks than what is technically required if they do not have the exact round of draft picks available.
Example: A 4th and 5th round is required but the team doesn't have a 4th round, so it gives a 3rd and 5th round instead.
o) It's not possible to acquire a player drafted in the 1st round via a TS Activation Trade.
p) The price for TS players selected in the Veteran/Supplementary Draft will be as if the player had been drafted in the last round of the rookie draft (so 4th and 5th rd pick).
q) Only the next draft's set of picks may be used for activating/signing TS players from opposing franchises (not two drafts out, for example).
r) Activating TS players from opposing franchises may only occur after the Taxi Squad is closed each year and before the start of the next year's Rookie Draft. TS activation is also closed during the trade blackout between week 12 and the end of week 16.
s) To activate TS players from opposing franchises, the team owner must create a new message board post to the league declaring the transaction, listing the teams/player/draft picks involved, so all owners are notified. If a team owns multiple picks in the same round, they need to give up the higher of the picks.
t) The owner of the TS player can block the steal by activating the player to his own roster in lieu of the draft pick compensation.
u) The Commissioner will execute the transaction as a trade if the picks are valid, if all league fees for the pick years are fully paid and if all roster requirements are met.
v) The TS activation trade will be declared null and void if all of the conditions in Section 11 m - t) are not met.
w) Any player acquired by a TS activation trade will go straight to the active roster of the new team.
x) Any rookie player acquired by a team must be demoted within 24 hours of that acquisition, or that player is no longer eligible for demotion. The exception to this is the rookie draft, during which demotions are not required until 24 hours after the conclusion of the entire draft.
y). Players on the Taxi squad do not count towards the 115 year contract cap until they are promoted to active.
a) Owners may designate 5 rookie players from their team to the Taxi Squad (TS) for development purposes. These players will be in addition to the 45 (in season) 50 (off season) main roster players.
b) The players will have a salary determined either by their draft position or by the free agent auction price.
c) Rookies demoted to the Taxi Squad as of August 15th will be assigned a 3 year contract.
d) The players salaries will increase by 10% each year just as every player, and their contracts will decrease by a year each March 1.
e) Players on the TS will count 25% towards the salary cap.
f) The team owner is responsible for demoting/promoting any drafted rookies or rookies acquired in the free agent auction to the TS .Each owner has until Aug15th whereby you can demote and promote rookies to the TS as many times as you like, but when demotions close on Aug15th, the player is locked on the TS until final promotion or he is dropped.Any player on the TS when demotions are closed/locked for the year must be given a 3 year contract. If a player is given a 1, 2, 4 or 5 year contract after being acquired in the free agent auction, they are ineligible.
g) Once this date has passed, no more demotions to the TS will be allowed until the following year's drafts begin.
h) Players on the TS may be cut at any point, without salary cap penalty.
i) i) Once a player - after he has been locked on the TS - is activated from the TS to the active roster, he is ineligible to return to the TS. This includes if the player is traded to another franchise or waived and subsequently picked up by another team owner.
j) Within 24 hours of being activated from the TS, any player regardless of the length of years left on their contract, is eligible to be extended.
k) As per Free Agency rules, any player on the TS whose contract expires on March 1 will be dropped.
l) Team owners have the ability to activate and sign TS players from other franchises in the league to their own active roster, as long as those players were not selected in the first round of their rookie draft.
m) The team owner activating/signing TS players from opposing franchises will pay the price of 2 draft picks to the franchise losing the TS Player; 1 draft pick from the same round the player was drafted, 1 draft pick from the round higher than the player was drafted.
Example: The price for a TS player drafted in the second round will be a 1st & 2nd round draft pick.
n) A team that is claiming the TS player may give up earlier round draft picks than what is technically required if they do not have the exact round of draft picks available.
Example: A 4th and 5th round is required but the team doesn't have a 4th round, so it gives a 3rd and 5th round instead.
o) It's not possible to acquire a player drafted in the 1st round via a TS Activation Trade.
p) The price for TS players selected in the Veteran/Supplementary Draft will be as if the player had been drafted in the last round of the rookie draft (so 4th and 5th rd pick).
q) Only the next draft's set of picks may be used for activating/signing TS players from opposing franchises (not two drafts out, for example).
r) Activating TS players from opposing franchises may only occur after the Taxi Squad is closed each year and before the start of the next year's Rookie Draft. TS activation is also closed during the trade blackout between week 12 and the end of week 16.
s) To activate TS players from opposing franchises, the team owner must create a new message board post to the league declaring the transaction, listing the teams/player/draft picks involved, so all owners are notified. If a team owns multiple picks in the same round, they need to give up the higher of the picks.
t) The owner of the TS player can block the steal by activating the player to his own roster in lieu of the draft pick compensation.
u) The Commissioner will execute the transaction as a trade if the picks are valid, if all league fees for the pick years are fully paid and if all roster requirements are met.
v) The TS activation trade will be declared null and void if all of the conditions in Section 11 m - t) are not met.
w) Any player acquired by a TS activation trade will go straight to the active roster of the new team.
x) Any rookie player acquired by a team must be demoted within 24 hours of that acquisition, or that player is no longer eligible for demotion. The exception to this is the rookie draft, during which demotions are not required until 24 hours after the conclusion of the entire draft.
y). Players on the Taxi squad do not count towards the 115 year contract cap until they are promoted to active.
