TBL Rosters v7.4
Thanks again to Manimal, Archibalduk, and all of the researchers for turning out this huge update!
I'm pleased to announce Challenge #38! We missed last week's "Shark Week" (a popular yearly event on the Discovery Channel for those who might not be aware) but it's still summer and beach time, so a San Jose Sharks challenge seemed like a good fit.
In this challenge we're going to follow essentially the same set of rules that we used in the Canucks challenge. That challenge proved to be one of our more popular challenges and the rules seemed more approachable for newer participant. For this challenge we're going to provide everyone with a saved game that I have simmed through to April 15th 2016. That's one year further than we did with the Canucks challenge. That should change the players you can trade for a little bit. When you load this game, you'll retire the temporary GM I made (named TBL Challenge) and add your GM, taking over the San Jose Sharks. At that point, you'll want to immediately send your scouts out to scout the NHL Draft. You should have just enough time to scout for the draft. You'll also want to scout the NHL and maybe the AHL and ECHL too because we're going to be taking a big bite out of this Sharks team!
DO NOT FOLLOW THE STANDARD CHALLENGE RULES! Please follow the rules laid out in this message. The only exception is the stats reporting and scoring detailed HERE. That will remain the same.
This is how it will work...
Once the Stanley Cup Finals are done (the game starts early in the playoffs and the Sharks are on the outside looking in) and trading has opened up again, you're going to trade away every player on your team that is 29 year old or older! You're going to trade them for draft picks and young players. Anyone 29 or older that's not traded before July 1st will have to be released..
All players aged 29 or older must be traded or released before July 1st. Player's age is as of July 1st. i.e. Alex Stalock 28 when you load the save. He will be 29 on July 28th. He does NOT have to be traded. If his birthday had been a littler earlier, he would've been considered 29.
You must trade these players for draft picks or young players under contract (or a combination of the two).
Incoming players must be aged 24 or younger!
You may not trade for unsigned players/prospects!
You may not send draft picks out in a trade. They can only come in.
You can package multiple 29 or older players in a deal but you may not have more than 3 assets going out or coming in on a deal. i.e. Brent Burns, Mike Kostka, and Justin Braun traded for a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd round pick is allowed. You could not add more to either side of that deal though.
You may not trade for draft picks for future drafts, only the 2016 draft.
You may not re-sign players aged 29 and over so that they'll get trade interest. He'll have to be allowed to go for nothing. In this challenges, that's Raffi Torres, Anthony Stewart, and Adam Burish.
You may re-sign any other players with expiring contracts.
You may sign any of your unsigned prospects but you may not trade them.
To keep things clear, the following players have to be traded or let go:
Joe Thornton
Patrick Marleau
Antti Niemi
Joe Pavelski
Brent Burns
Mike Kostka
Matt D'Agostini
Justin Braun
Marc-Edouard Vlasic
Once July 1st comes around you're allowed to hire and fire non-playing staff freely. Put the staff that you want in place. Find staff that work well with youngsters so that you'll be able to develop all of these young players you have. Find good scouts for the coming years. Going in to season 1 (the 2016-2017) season, you can sign any of your prospects that you like but you are not allowed to sign any UFAs. You're also not allowed to make waiver claims. You won't be able to make any more moves in this first season. Play it out and develop your young players.
Season 2 and on
Each season on June 15th the veteran age will drop. You'll have the option of trading away these veteran players or keeping them. The same restrictions apply here that applied the when you first took over the team but the age will drop
2017-2018: Players aged 28 or older may be traded
2018-2019: Players aged 27 or older may be traded
2019-2020: Players aged 26 or older may be traded
2020-2021: Players aged 25 or older may be traded
Also, each season you may trade one players under the veteran age. You may not package this player with a veteran. They must be traded on their own.
In this challenge you are not allowed to:
Trade away your draft picks.
Sign UFAs.
Claim players from waivers.
The saved game for this challenge may be downloaded HERE.
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