Question: Franchise Tags

[yugimoto]

Commish,

Are we limited to the number of players that can be tagged to be three (i.e., 1 FP, 1TP, 1RFA)? Or can an owner tag as many players they want with the different tags as long as they have the salary cap space available to meet roster requirements? In other words could an owner tag 5 different players on their roster say as 2 FP tags, 2 TP tags and 1 RFA tag?

DMOC

[braven112]

Below are the complete details but basically each team can do no more than 3 total tags and only 1 of each type.

Player Tags

* Each team will be have three "Tags" to sign back their own Free Agents (FA). The Three tags are; Franchise Player Tag (FP), Transition Player Tag (TP) and Restricted Free Agent Tag (RFA).
* Deadline for announcing tagged players is Feb. 15th
* Tagged players can be offered a contract, salary and length by any team with the appropriate draft compensation, between Feb. 15th and Feb. 28th(29th).
* Teams holding the rights to their FP will have until March 7th to match the contract of the highest bidder.
* Franchise Player - each owner may designate 1 player whose contract with the team has expired. A FP will be tendered a one year contract at the average of the top five salaries at his position or a 20% salary increase, whichever is greater. A FP may be offered a contract (salary and years) by any team. His original team has the right to match the highest offer. If the original team declines to match the offer, they will receive the 1st and 2nd round draft choice as compensation.
* Transition Player - each owner may designate 1 player whose contract with the team has expired. A TP will be tendered a one year contract at the average of the top ten salaries at his position or a 20% salary increase, whichever is greater. A TP may be offered a contract (salary and years) by any team. His original team has the right to match the highest offer. If the original team declines to match the offer, they will receive the 1st round draft choice as compensation.
* Restricted Free Agent - each owner may designate 1 player whose contract with the team has expired. A RFA will be tendered a one year contract at the average of the top fifteen salaries at his position or a 20% salary increase, whichever is greater. A RFA may be offered a contract (salary and years) by any team. His original team has the right to match the highest offer. If the original team declines to match the offer, they will receive the 2nd round draft choice as compensation.
* Any player that was tagged by their original team and not pursued by another team, will receive a one year contract for the tender amount.
* Owners can not bid on multiple tagged that will exceed what they have to give for compensation. For example, Team A has all of their natural draft picks, they can bid on one FP (1st&2nd draft picks) or they can bid on one TP (1st round draft pick) and one UFA (2nd round draft pick).
* The league message board will be the only place you can bid on tagged players.
* If a team tags a guy at the 1 year tender for 6 million, then a team can place a higher bid 2 ways; either a higher salary or more years on the contract. So a team could bid 1 years at 6.025 million. A second team could bid 4 year at 6.025, then they would be the highest bid. The final contract offer could be 1 year at 6.05 million.

[yugimoto]

Thank you for the clarification.