Okay, guys, get ready to launch.
We'll launch League 1 and use them as the guinea pigs to be sure that everything is working for real. Then I just need to recruit the final three slots for League 2 and we'll launch.
As a reminder, here's what will happen.
1. You'll get assigned a random draft order, and you'll have an initial draft of roughly half your 53-man roster. The players in this draft will generally be the players in the top half of the league in terms of performance, as long as they were on an opening day roster at the beginning of the 2018 season. (We're going to play a catchup season with last year's rosters.) You'll also get automatically assigned players who were in the bottom half of the league as your roster fillers. But sometimes there are gems in there, like rookies who didn't get playing time or guys who missed time due to injuries.
2. Sign your players to contracts. At this point, you'll have a lot of salary points in your pocket and no one under contract. Go to the user manual and watch the videos and read the instructions if you need to refresh yourself on the system.
https://sandboxsimulations.com/CI/in...ual/#retaining
Be sure to save some of your salary cap money for free agents! Some good free agents will be available and you may want to shuffle your roster by adding some new guys to the team.
You have to sign your contracts (or release players) before you can bid on free agents, though, so you have to use several major lobes of your brain in this phase.
3. There will be players available who were not drafted or assigned to a team, and at this point you can shuffle your roster by signing them (if you're the high bidder for their services). As you sign your current roster to contracts, the free agents will come available for you to bid on. Read up on the free agent bidding process if you need a refresher. This initial free agency period is a limited free agency period where all players not on a Sandbox roster are open for bidding.
https://sandboxsimulations.com/CI/in...al/#freeagency
So get ready, because Wednesday morning we're going live for good!