I feel like I need to put this disclaimer on top of everything I say these days: Anything that I have said or will say in this post is my personal opinion and does not reflect HO's as a whole.
Rule 1
Contract Maximum Lengths are based by a player's total TPE as follows:
<799 TPE: 3 Years
>800 TPE: No Limit
Rule 2
Players may extend their contracts if they are in the final year of their current contract. A player may NOT extend their contract at any other point.
Rule 3
Old version: If a rookie signs a 1-year contract, they can only sign at most a 2-year extension. (This is the original version of the rule which I interpret the extension part as extension or new contract)
Hence the new version: If a rookie signs a 1-year contract, they can only sign at most a 2-year extension or other new contract. This includes situations such as a 2-year rookie deal with an option on the second year that is used to accomplish the same thing.
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(Assuming the player is under 800 TPE)
- Sign 1 year rookie contract and immediately extend it for 1 or 2 years
- Sign 1 year rookie contract, wait for FA, extend or sing new deal for 1 year and immediately extend it 3 year
- Sign a 2 or 3 year rookie contract with options, opt out after first year, sing new deal for 1 year and immediately extend it 3 year
All 3 of these scenarios are totally fine with the current rules we have in place. Neither bex's nor murtsi's contract violated these rules.
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What DD's contract tried to do is;
- Sign a 2 or 3 year rookie contract with options, opt out after first year, sing new deal for 3 years
which with our current rules is illegal.
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We have been working on getting this rule adjusted so that what I consider to be a loophole(what bex and murtsi did) no longer exists. However it has proven to be quite difficult to put together such a rule without having any side effects. Our initial version of the rule is like a paragraph which isn't good enough to put in motion. So stay tuned for us to work on such things once we are done punishing people and finding people to cover critical sim jobs, because it feels like that's the only thing we have been doing lately.
Rule 1
Contract Maximum Lengths are based by a player's total TPE as follows:
<799 TPE: 3 Years
>800 TPE: No Limit
Rule 2
Players may extend their contracts if they are in the final year of their current contract. A player may NOT extend their contract at any other point.
Rule 3
Old version: If a rookie signs a 1-year contract, they can only sign at most a 2-year extension. (This is the original version of the rule which I interpret the extension part as extension or new contract)
Hence the new version: If a rookie signs a 1-year contract, they can only sign at most a 2-year extension or other new contract. This includes situations such as a 2-year rookie deal with an option on the second year that is used to accomplish the same thing.
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(Assuming the player is under 800 TPE)
- Sign 1 year rookie contract and immediately extend it for 1 or 2 years
- Sign 1 year rookie contract, wait for FA, extend or sing new deal for 1 year and immediately extend it 3 year
- Sign a 2 or 3 year rookie contract with options, opt out after first year, sing new deal for 1 year and immediately extend it 3 year
All 3 of these scenarios are totally fine with the current rules we have in place. Neither bex's nor murtsi's contract violated these rules.
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What DD's contract tried to do is;
- Sign a 2 or 3 year rookie contract with options, opt out after first year, sing new deal for 3 years
which with our current rules is illegal.
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We have been working on getting this rule adjusted so that what I consider to be a loophole(what bex and murtsi did) no longer exists. However it has proven to be quite difficult to put together such a rule without having any side effects. Our initial version of the rule is like a paragraph which isn't good enough to put in motion. So stay tuned for us to work on such things once we are done punishing people and finding people to cover critical sim jobs, because it feels like that's the only thing we have been doing lately.
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