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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-size: 16px;"><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Interesting question.</font></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style=""><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" style="" size="3">Article VIII(5) says:</font></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style=""><span style="color: rgb(107, 107, 107); letter-spacing: normal;"><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="3" style="background-color: inherit;"><br></font></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style=""><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" style="" size="3"><span style="color: rgb(107, 107, 107); letter-spacing: normal;">The salary of a free agent is his acquisition price. </span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><font color="#cd232c" style="background-color: inherit;">Except as set forth in the next sentence, the contract status of a free agent acquired on or before the last weekly transaction deadline before September 1 is that of a first-year player. </font></span><span style="color: rgb(107, 107, 107); letter-spacing: normal;">The contract status of a free agent who, during the course of the season, was in the final year of his contract, is that of a player in the final year of his contract. </span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><font color="#cd232c" style="background-color: inherit;">The contract status of a free agent acquired after the last weekly transaction deadline before September 1 is that of a player in the final year of his contract.</font></span></font></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style=""><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><font color="#cd232c" face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="3" style="background-color: inherit;"><br></font></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style=""><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="3">Article XIV(3) says that the "<font color="#cd232c">weekly transaction deadline</font>" for FAAB bids is the time by which bids must be submitted, which is midnight tonight--August 31. So I would read that as saying this week's FAAB acquisitions are Y1, given that the applicable transaction deadline is tonight.</font></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style=""><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style=""><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Mark K</font></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div>
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On Saturday, August 31, 2024 at 04:05:41 PM CDT, Bill Strotman via Announce <announce@usml.net> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">Players bought with FAAB funds tomorrow are they Y1. Or FA. <br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">BUDDHA<br></div><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">_______________________________________________<br></div><div dir="ltr">Announce mailing list<br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="mailto:Announce@usml.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Announce@usml.net</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://usml.net/mailman/listinfo/announce_usml.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://usml.net/mailman/listinfo/announce_usml.net</a><br></div></div>
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