Headsup... Frenzy RFA Closing Deadline could potentially extend into May
 

I was just reviewing the rules to see when bidding ends on RFA's.

The rules state the following:

In terms of when a player sells, they state:
and then on the 72 hour match period My interpretation of the above is that a player still within the 48 hour period after April 30th may continue to be bid upon. The 72 hour match period will not begin until the player sells after not having been increased for 48 hours. This means the RFA period may actually extend into our rookie draft in the 1st week of May. Just a headsup.

Players with no bids before this point will sell on APril 30 at the tender price.

Am I reading this correctly? Just want to make sure we're all on the same page.

Re: Headsup... Frenzy RFA Closing Deadline could potentially extend into May
 

You can interpret it that way, but I think the intent is different. To me it seems if no bid is put into place for a RFA before the 30th, he is considered sold but I don't see a big deal going either way.

Re: Headsup... Frenzy RFA Closing Deadline could potentially extend into May
 

I'd say any player not bid on by April 30 is definitely out of the running. They will sell to the tendering team for the tender price.

Now, those players that are still being bid on is a different animal. My original understanding was that the bidding would close on April 30, and on Midnight May 1, the 72 hour clock started. If you want to interpret it a different way, then fine but we need everyone on the same page.

Re: Headsup... Frenzy RFA Closing Deadline could potentially extend into May
 

I think you misundertsood me (or I mistated my point), what I meant was that a player already in active bidding but still within the 48 hour period will still be eligible to be bid on past April 30th and into May, with the 48 hour window extended each time the player receives a valid bid.

Players that are not in active bidding, and have no bids before April 30th WILL sell at the tender on April 30th at 11:50pm.

Re: Headsup... Frenzy RFA Closing Deadline could potentially extend into May
 

Gotcha, good with me. That's the way I understand it. Thanks

Re: Headsup... Frenzy RFA Closing Deadline could potentially extend into May
 

Exactly Brian,

Personally I don't care, but I think it's harder to extrapulate that all bidding closes on April 30th at midnight than it is to view it that the player is alive until he goes unbid upon for 48 hours (regardless of the closing date of RFA).

I think the writing of the rule leans much more in favor of the later.

Re: Headsup... Frenzy RFA Closing Deadline could potentially extend into May
 

I'd agree, with the exception of this excerpt:

"The RFA Bidding Auctions will begin on April 1 each season and end on April 30th."


This is what primarily lead to my assumption that bidding ended on April 30.

But I agree that is inconsistent with the rest of our bidding rules. Now that I think about it, we had this same issue arise with off season free agency running into in season free agency last year or the year before. Maybe we should see how we handled that.

Re: Headsup... Frenzy RFA Closing Deadline could potentially extend into May
 

either way is fine with me but for some reason i was thinking it was the way Brian explained it (bidding closes to high bidder at midnight May 1 and 72 hour clock begins). i think we should clarify this in the rules as they do seem slightly ambiguous.

Re: Headsup... Frenzy RFA Closing Deadline could potentially extend into May
 

I just looked at the last 2 years of RFA, we've never had a player carry past the deadline while in active bidding, so there is no past precedent on how we handled it.

I can see it being interpreted both ways, but lean towards the later.

As for the off-Season to In-Season FA, however, we have all bids close at midnight, but it's also specifically stated that way in the rules We have no such statement as that for the RFA period.

Re: Headsup... Frenzy RFA Closing Deadline could potentially extend into May
 

I thought the intent was that at the end of the RFA period the highest bid at that time would sell and the tendering team would have 72 hours to match or decline. I agree we need everyone on the same page on this one. I'd perfer all bidding to stop on April 30th so all loose ends are tied up and the RFA period can be closed.

Re: Headsup... Frenzy RFA Closing Deadline could potentially extend into May
 

I think the intent of the RFA rules was the same. I think the question was raised for the off season to in season, and thus the clarification, but we've never had RFAs last this long, so it never came up. I'm not sure if a vote at this point would be prudent, or if we need to have a rules committee clarification for this time around, and then vote on a clarified rule for the future.

Re: Headsup... Frenzy RFA Closing Deadline could potentially extend into May
 

This was my understanding.

Re: Headsup... Frenzy RFA Closing Deadline could potentially extend into May
 

I think the Rules Committe can handle this, and then we'll vote on how to address it next off-season.

Send me a PM with your thoughts Brian, we also need to get with Jake on this.

Re: Headsup... Frenzy RFA Closing Deadline could potentially extend into May
 

I'm okay with either one... but we'll look forward to a ruling from the Rules Committee, so we'll know ahead of time if this is going to be like EBay or not!

Re: Headsup... Frenzy RFA Closing Deadline could potentially extend into May
 

In a unanimous vote, the Board has voted that all RFA bidding will cease at 11:59pm on Saturday April 30th. The player will sell to the highest bidder at the last minute (get your ebay bidding software ready;))!

One note however, if someone strenuously objects to closing the bidding at midnight on the 30th then we will consider keeping the bidding open (depending on the argument made).

If you OBJECT to having all bids close at midnight on the 30th please make your case in this thread over the next 12 hours. Thanks.