Contract League (1 Viewer)

[Zackster]

Tike Barber was signed this year in our league to a three year contract. Barber says he's going to retire after this year.

How should I handle this? Tough luck to the team that signed him? Award that team a two year contract to cover the remaining two years of Tiki's contract?

We are in the first year of this contract league.

Thanks in advance.

 

[turnit643]

If it wasn't covered in your rules before the contract was signed, it sounds like a good opportunity for your league to vote and set the precedent.

If you do go that route, keep it to just two options when offering it for a vote - the two you suggested sound like a good place to start (votes can tend to get messy when too many choices are presented.)

If I was voting on it (and I guess I am here), I'd say give him the option to sign someone in his place, but make a rule one way or the other for the future while you're at it.

 

[dwarfboy]

What happens if a player is injured? I'd say it's the same kind of risk. You don't know what will happen to players when you sign them to multi year contracts. They could get suspended for drugs, sent to prison, retire, get injured, get killed, get benched or get traded. I say they committed to the contract. Players have been known to unretire as well.

 

[TheFanatic]

I play in a contract league and one of the owners had this happen to him with Ricky Williams. Signed the guy two a $12 million contract over 2 years ($32 million cap), and the guy retires before the start of the second year. The owner had to eat the contract.

 

[Xenopax]

It depends on how hard core you want the league to be. Making people stick with contracts for retired players is only for people that would take the league very seriously, and a more casual player would likely quit the league if they were seriously hampered by expensive retirements.

 

[SuperJohn96]

The SFL actually has a rule in place laying out the rules for salary cap compensation for a retired player...

Heck...we even have Prison relief...LOL

(g) Retired Players & Career Ending Injuries: SFL teams shall receive salary cap relief in the event that an NFL player retires prematurely, including those forced to retire because of injury. If a player retires from an NFL team and the SFL team can provide confirmation by a major news provider, cap relief shall be provided. If the player is released and cap relief given in accordance with this provision, the adjusted salary cap hit shall be taken in the SFL year immediately following the release of the player, irrespective of when the player is released.

The cap relief for retired players and players with career ending injuries will be as follows:

Length of NFL Career ... Accelerated Signing Bonus

1-2 years ... 20% of the remaining signing bonus will be accelerated

3-5 years ... 40% of the remaining signing bonus will be accelerated

6-8 years ... 60% of the remaining signing bonus will be accelerated

9-12 yrs ... 80% of the remaining signing bonus will be accelerated

13+ years ...100% of the remaining signing bonus will be accelerated

The remainder of the signing bonus shall be deemed forfeited by the Player. Nothing in this subsection is to be construed to require that an SFL team drop a retired player; however, once a Player is dropped, the SFL team loses all rights to that Player.

(h) Prison Terms: SFL teams shall receive 100% salary cap relief in the event that an NFL player is sent to prison and misses part of the NFL season.

 

[code]

In our contract league contracts are guaranteed and non-cancellable...if the guy retires you eat the terms of the contract...thus owners are encouraged to grant their contracts cautiously...

The same is true, by the way, if a team cuts a player...they still eat the cap hit...

 

[trogg78]

In my league you can cut a player in the middle of a contract and then sign another player to a new 3 year contract the next season. What is this baseball?