2019 UFA opens Monday June 10

[Preds]

2019 UFA's open for bidding as of 12:00:01 AM Monday June 10th.

Some Off-Season bidding reminders:

8B. Off Season Free Agent Bidding

1. Off-Season Free Agent biding will open on the first Monday after the rookie draft each year May 16th and close the day after the 3rd NFL Pre-Season game (for most teams) at 11:59pm.

1a. The bidding day lasts from 12:00 AM ET until 11:59 PM ET. Bids will be posted on the Feeding Frenzy Message Board under the Free Agency & the Waiver Wire forum.

A player will still be considered available until he hasn't been bid on for a period of 48 hours (72 hours for bids made on Friday or Saturday). If for any reason there is a problem with the league message board, we'll default back to a Bid Announcement system which will involve all bids being e-mailed to the entire league and summarized each night.

Please compose all threads with the following header: Position, Player, NFL Team for example RB, Ricky Williams, Miami. Then list your bid amount and player to be released (if any) in the body of the message. Subsequent bids can be made by just replying with an increased bid in the body of the message.

2. Teams are expected to responsibly manage their own salary obligations. Total bids that exceed the 10,500 CB's salary cap will be permitted, as it is not likely that all bids will be winners. However, if a team should have winning bids that exceed the salary cap, punitive action will be taken.

If a team has winning bids for more players than it has room for, the team will have 24 hours to comply with the roster and salary cap limits. After 24 hours, if the offending team is not in compliance, roster penalties will be assessed. (Off Season time is based on period - see section 6A)

3. Teams will be allowed to place single and multiple bids that exceed their remaining cap room. However, if bids are won that result in exceed the salary cap or roster limit, the team will have 24 hours to comply with the caps, or penalties will be assessed. (Off Season time is based on period - see section 6A)

4. Teams must also responsibly manage their 18 Active Roster slots and 5 Taxi Squad slots. Teams will not be permitted to exceed 18 players on their Active Rosters at any time. If a team has winning bids for more players than it has room for, the team will have 24 hours to make appropriate cuts to fit the new players on their rosters, or roster penalties will be assessed. (Off Season time is based on period - see section 6A)

5. Once a bid is made, it must remain the high bid for a period of 48 hours (72 hours for Friday and Saturday bids). If no other team makes a higher during this period, the bid is considered a "winner" and the team making the bid receives the rights to the player and is responsible for the salary bid. If a higher bid is received during this period, then a new 48 hour period for the higher bid will begin. Teams may not challenge, or raise their own bids. Basically, a bid must stand unchallenged for 48 hours to be a winner. An Example:

Preds bids 200 CB's for TE Antonio Gates on Sunday, July 20th at 10pm. The 48 hour period begins at 10 PM Sunday. Other teams will have all day Monday and most of Tuesday to make a higher bid. The bidding period will end at 10 PM Tuesday unless a higher bid is made. If no higher bid has been placed before this time, the Parkwood bid is the winner.

However, if a higher bid had been received, say on Monday, the 21st, then a new 48 hour period would be established, beginning at the time of the new bid.

6. Bidding increments. Bidding will be subject to minimum increments of increase over previous bids. Meaning that bids must exceed the highest posted bid by a minimum amount. Highest posted bids are the bids which are posted in the draft sheets at the web site. The following increment schedule will be followed:

Highest posted bid Minimum increment

100-999 5

1000-1999 20

2000+ 50
Therefore, if the highest posted bid on Drew Brees is 373, a competing bid must be at least 378 in order to be accepted. If Torry Holt currently carries a 1230 CB bid, the minimum bid allowed would be 1250. And if LaDainian Tomlinson is currently at 3220, the minimum allowable bid would be 3270. Simple enough, right?

High bids will be tracked and reported on the league message board. These will serve as the official record of bidding. The message board will be updated every day and will reflect only the high bids for each player as of the end of the previous bidding day. The Bid Sheets will report the high bid amount, the team making the bid, and the status of the bid (when it will become a winner).

7. Bid amounts may NOT BE WITHDRAWN or changed.

Once a team has won the bidding for a player and it is determined that his salary will not place the team in violation of the salary cap, he is on the payroll. If he is subsequently cut, he will impact the salary cap of the team with the 20% guaranteed portion of his salary.

8. Players may be traded to other teams, and released during Off Season Free Agency. Once a player is released (even if he was only on the roster for 1 day), however, the releasing teams cap will be penalized 20% of the released players salary for the upcoming season. Players CANNOT be traded however, until they have their contract years assigned.

9. Off Season Free Agency will end the day after the 3rd Preseason game ends (for most NFL teams). At that time, all active bids will be finalized. For any player with an active (not yet final) bid, the highest bid to be electronically postmarked (determined by the mail server time-stamp) prior to this time will be declared the winning bid. In Season Free Agency will open the day after.

It is your responsibility, as owner, to meet the minimum roster requirements outlined previously,at a flexible date each year that basically commences the day after the 3rd pre-season games end (4th for the few teams that play 5) or a 500cb penalty will be assessed (per player).

During the off-season, the time to get roster in compliance will coincide with the bidding clock - 48 hours for UFA's won. 48 hours if bid won on Sunday through Thursday - 72 hours if bid won on Friday or Saturday.

[A Zombie Pirate I Be]

Just wanted to verify bidding clock rule.
Bids posted from 12:00am (Midnight) on Friday morning to Saturday 11:59pm are on the 72 hour clock instead of the 48 clock. So all bibs posted Friday are not "Sold" until Monday. Correct?

[chasmvp19]

Correct...