Now that the Super Bowl is done with, we can officially start the GM League. The first step is to create a team page for your team. Click on the "Team Pages" sub-forum within the GM League forum. Your team page will consist of your players and their salaries, your teams free agents, draft picks, salary cap information, signings, cuts/releases, and trades. The first thing you need to do is get your player salaries. I will walk you through this step. 1. Go to this thread to get your team roster with individual player salaries. -- http://forums.thephins.com/showthread.php?59321-GM-League-Rosters 2. Create a new thread in the Team Pages sub-forum (or you can organize everything in Microsoft Word or Notepad). Please post your roster in a format similar to this: Quarterback (Total Positional Salary) Trent Green, QB, 2,800,000 John Beck, QB, 370,000 Casey Bramlet, QB, 445,000 3. Complete your roster section of your team page by organizing your players by position and be sure to add up all the salaries so you have your team salary. 4. Go to the following thread to find your free agents. -- http://forums.thephins.com/showthread.php?59320-Team-By-Team-Free-Agents 5. Copy and paste your team's free agents into your team page. Record all your team's free agents in a format like below: Free Agents: Yeremiah Bell, S, UFA Jesse Chatman, RB, UFA Chris Davis, WR, RFA 6. Feel free to tender any free agents you wish if they are RFA's or ERFA's. Feel free to place a Franchise or Transition Tag on your UFAs as well. You may only have ONE Franchise tag and ONE Transition tag per team! Please follow the guide you're given as far as salaries and compensation goes. DO NOT TRADE YOUR RFA'S AND FRANCHISED PLAYERS UNTIL 24 HOURS AFTER FREE AGENCY!! However, you MAY trade EFRAs. 7. Go to the Official Draft Order thread to find your teams' draft picks. -- http://forums.thephins.com/showthread.php?59319-2011-GM-League-Draft-Order 8. Find all your teams draft picks and list them like so: Draft Picks: 1st round (25th overall) 2nd round (50th overall) 2nd round (52nd overall) 3rd round (88th overall) 11. Be sure to create a category for "Trades" and "Cuts" so you have somewhere to list your cuts and trades after they occur. Remember that you do not need to be under the salary cap until the start of free agency, so don't worry about cutting players until free agency nears. 12. Shop around for some trades with other GMs and have fun! If you have any questions, you can PM Saint Greg or GridIronKing34 or message us through AIM. Our screen names are benjamin4820 (S.G.) and a7xskater34 (GIK34).
