Trade and Cut Rules

This page is incomplete. These rules are spread around in multiple posts by Bort, so some might have been missed, or an update might have happened that changed what is posted here.

Most of these are direct quotes from updates or announcements.

Trade and Cut Deadline

• The trade/cut deadline is week 12.
• You can view (but not accept) received trades even after the trade deadline, so that you can reject/retract them and not be blindsided.

Trade Rules

1. Maximum of one trade between any two teams within a 12 day period (so, 2 trades per season's trade period between two teams).
2. Maximum 3 players on each side of a trade.
3. When the playoffs start, trading will be re-enabled for all teams who are not in the playoffs, but not for those in the playoffs. Cuts are not re-enabled, however.
4. New trading rule - a player may not be traded for 3 days after being signed (not applied to renegotiations).
   1. This will soon extend to not allowing trades within 3 days of being traded as well (no turn around trades). This is needed to address some problems with some updates for season 5. (unknown if this has been implemented)
5. Since people seem to like to screw over other owners, and mistakes seem common, trades can now be retracted after being accepted FOR ONE HOUR. After the hour is up, the trade is locked in. Make sure you still check your trade offer before hitting accept!
6. Players may not be traded within 3 days of signing them (Why is this a repeat of #4? Bort posted this on June 6, and #4 on August 30. These rules are so spread out that he must have forgotten that he already had done this.)
7. Trades between 2 teams owned by the same player can only be made for another player(s). Trades for cash are not allowed due to the potential exploitation of cash funneling.

• Unconfirmed if this happens every offseason: 3 day trade window restriction lifted for off season (it's coming back in some form or another though, so don't get used to lying to newbies and selling them off, or creating players as a means to make quick money for your team by pawning them off on other owners)

Cut Rules

1. Always unlimited cuts of CPU players.
2. Unlimited cuts of human players during the offseason, and up to week 2 (day 4).
3. 2 human players cut per day maximum during the regular season, after day 4.
4. Players may no longer be cut within 6 days of signing a contract.
5. CPUs may now be cut after the trade deadline, but you may not go under 40 players.
6. 40 man limit for cuts has been lifted for off-season. Day 41 and higher only, once the preseason starts the limit comes back.
7. When the playoffs start no teams are allowed to cut players.

Traded players on depth chart

1. You cannot be assigned to a depth chart if you played a game for a different team within the last day. Because of the energy change, no same-day or next day games; since this is a bonus XP loophole. Plan your trades accordingly. Just think of it as the player requiring a day to get to your team and get settled in.

Free Agent Rules

1. Teams in the playoffs will not be able to sign FA's until they are eliminated or the playoffs are over. This is to combat some of the problems raised with players releasing themselves when not getting paid (which will be turned on shortly). FA signings are allowed up until the first round of playoffs are complete. Once the first round is over, teams still in playoffs will not be able to sign FA's.

Re-signing after being cut or traded

1. Players who were released or traded by your team MAY NOT re-sign with the team within 20 days of their leaving.