Free Agency

Free agency is one of the key ways to acquire players in BaseHit, alongside the draft and trading. Leagues can customize key aspects of free agency to match their needs.

Bidding and Signing

• Free agents will always sign with the team offering the highest salary. If event of a tie, they’ll randomly select a team.
  
  
• Free agents will not sign during the first 8 games of the preseason or after the regular season ends. Between these points, the timing of signings is based on league settings.
  
  
• You can offer players a salary up to your available salary cap space. To free up space, you can drop up to three players from your roster as part of your bid. If the free agent signs with you, the dropped players’ salaries are subtracted from the offered salary.
  
  
• If a player signs for more than their base salary, the extra amount becomes a permanent signing bonus, which will carry over year after year.
  
  
• If the signed player has no game experience and there’s space in the Low Minors (max 20 players), they’ll be placed there. Otherwise, they go to AAA.

Processing Rules and Limits

• All League Bids will be processed from highest to lowest salary, and if tied, in random order.
  
  
• You can submit multiple bids, even if they exceed your available cap space.
  
  
• Bids are processed from highest to lowest salary, with ties broken randomly.
  
  
• If your cap space is insufficient when a bid is processed, the bid will be canceled and noted in your team news.
  
  
• You can include the same player in multiple conditional bids, but if a player is no longer available (due to cap limits or other bids), the bid will be canceled.

Free Agency League Options

Bid Visibility

Leagues can choose how free agent offers are shown:

• Blind Bidding: Teams can’t see other bids.
  
  
• Team Visible Only: Teams can see who else is bidding, but not how much.
  
  
• Team and Bid Visible: Teams can see both who is bidding and how much.
  
  

FA Decision Timing (NEW)

Leagues can customize how frequently free agents sign

• Every Day at X:00 ET: Players sign at a set time each day (default Noon EST). Any players dropped within 12 hours of the signing deadline will wait until the next day to sign.

• Every X Sims: Players will sign every 4 or 8 sims, per league choice. Any players dropped within 12 hours of the signing deadline will wait until the next signing day.

• Random Sign Dates: Players will sign randomly within a set range of sim days after receiving an offer, based on the league sim rate.
• 8/day leagues: Between 4-8 sim days after their oldest offer.
• 4/day leagues: Between 2-4 sim days after their oldest offer.
• 2/day leagues: Between 1-2 sim days after their oldest offer.
  
  

Unrestricted Free Agency (NEW)

• After a set time in free agency(8-90 sim days) free agents can sign instantly without bidding.
  
  
• Unrestricted Free Agents are only used during the regular season.
  
  
• Players' UFA designation will reset if league salary cap changes are made.
  
  

Learn more on recent changes to Free Agency

Free Agency Market Forces

• Free agency dynamics in a league can vary based on many factors:
  
  
• The Salary Cap level
• Whether is a Hard Cap or a Soft Cap
• Binding Contracts
• Pre-Season Free Agents.
  
  

Learn more about Team Finances

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