Activity Points

[Northstars]

AP by GM
Trevor (Grand Forks) - 6.1
David (Toronto) - 6.0
Melvin (Richmond) - 6.1
Connor (Stroud) - 6.1
Sean (Tulsa) - 6.0
Greg (Cobourg) - 6.1

Autoed Lines
Sean - 1 (1 excused)
David - 1

AP Info (from the League Rules):

Activity Incentive

• In order to promote activity, the league will use an "activity points" reward system.
  
• New GMs will start with 5 AP.
  
• Each non-playoff sim day where your team plays a game and does not need their lines autoed, you will get 0.1 Activity Points.
  
• If you do need your lines autoed, you will be penalized according to the following scale:
  -- 1st offense: no penalty
  -- 2nd offense: 0.1 AP penalty
  -- 3rd offense: 0.2 AP penalty
  -- 4th offense: 0.5 AP penalty
  -- 5th and subsequent offenses: 1.0 AP penalty
  
• Each game your team plays while exceeding the league mandated salary cap, your team will be fined 0.5 AP.
  
• Each media article (team or league related) posted in the appropriate section of the league forums will earn AP according to the following scale:
  -- min. 250 words: 0.5 AP
  -- min. 500 words: 1.0 AP
  -- min. 1000 words: 2.0 AP
  
• Up to 15 Activity Points can be carried over from season to season.
  
• If, at any point, your AP falls below zero, you are at risk of dismissal at the COM's discretion (normally, the league will have to vote on a GM's dismissal).
  

What Can You Do With AP?

• At the end of the season, each 10 AP you have will earn you one entry into a draw for an extra first-round draft pick, placed at the end of round one (this pick can not be traded). AP is not spent for this draw.
  
• You may spend 15 AP to purchase an a supplementary draft pick, which will be placed at the end of the final round. (up to twice per season).
  
• You may spend 20 AP to get an additional entry into the draw for the extra first-round draft pick (up to once per season).
  
• You may spend 20 AP to have any player's contract reduced by 20% (up to once per contract; will not affect the contract's signed value; ie. if you sign the player to a 1.0/1 deal, you can use this to reduce it to 0.8/1, however when it comes time to re-sign the deal will still be treated as 1.0/1)
  
• You may spend 20 AP to add one year to the contract of any currently signed player (up to once per contract per season; will not affect the contract's signed value; ie. if you sign the player to a 1.0/1 deal, you can use this to increase it to 1.0/2, however when it comes time to re-sign the deal will still be treated as 1.0/1). This includes "will-not-negotiate" players.
  
• You may spend 15 AP to receive $1,000,000 cash.
  

Important Notes

• Teams will have a minimum of one entry into the draw for the extra first round pick, and a maximum of five.
  
• Purchased supplementary draft picks will go into a separate draft round which will take place after the 4th round. After the deadline for purchasing such picks, the order of the selections will be determined randomly.

[GuardiansGM]

Thats an awesome idea man! lol

[Northstars]

The media articles are awesome to read in an active league, so I wanted something to encourage the posting of this. I might have to change the cost of the incentives and make them a little more expensive, though. But I like them cause they aren't going to create any sort of imbalance, but provide a little bit of incentive to make some posts and what not.

I've also had to make two slight modifications for kinda clarification purposes.. they are:

1) Teams will have a minimum of one entry into the draw for the extra first round pick, and a maximum of five.

2) Purchased supplementary draft picks will go into a separate draft round which will take place after the 4th round. After the deadline for purchasing such picks, the order of the selections will be determined randomly.

[GuardiansGM]

Ow will you do the draw? I can try to a random # script for this... so put in a #...say theres 12 entries.... i put in 12 and it randomly chooses a # between 1 and 12

[Northstars]

yeah, that would be nice. if nothing like that is done, I intend to use the random number generator on random.org

[GuardiansGM]

The random # has been made... ill put it up on my host sometime lol its such a simple script... i didnt even have to do much lol

[GuardiansGM]

So for each person entered in the draw, they can be assigned a #... say me, you and david all get 5 entered into the draw.... thats 15... all of our entries are #d 1-15....enter 15 into the text field and it yields a # between 1-15....winner

[Northstars]

after 4 pre-season games and 7 regular season games, I've had to auto sean's lines once (understandable and as I said sean will not be punished for inactivity for a bit as he's going through some tough times) and david's once and that's it, so they each get 1.0 AP and everyone else 1.1.