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Cut Players - "Bullet-Proof" Revisions Coming

Recently, some parents (and some managers) have exerted significant pressure on teams to "FREE" CUT players, thereby circumventing ENYTB's effort to fairly manage player movement within the league via its new RFA CAP system.

Unfortunately, many have been successful in achieving their aims. To ignore these circumventions would be unfair to those who play by the rules and it would surely produce undesirable outcomes for the league as a whole.

Thus, the ENYTB Members' Council and Executive Board have worked together over the past week to develop a "bullet-proof" procedure for handling CUTs that is immune to manipulation by parents and coaches. The result of this collaboration is summarized below. The new cut lists, also described below, are already available to teams. We hope to have the new methodology fully implemented on the website by the middle of March.

CUTs

(1) ENYTB's online roster management system (ORMS) will no longer distinguish between players who cut themselves and players who are cut by their team. A cut is a cut.

NOTE: A cut and a DNR shall remain separate.

(2) All cut players shall go on a cut list.

(3) Cut players shall remain on the CUT list for one year or until they are added to the roster of another ENYTB club/team.

(4) Any player placed on a cut list shall remain the RFA of that team for as long as he remains on the cut list (one year max). Teams will have to burn an RFA credit to sign another team's cuts unless the cut player qualifies for a CUT/Transfer Exemption (new).

Definition: Any cut player who transfers to the roster of a team that is classified at a lower level of competition than his prior team, shall qualify for an exemption from CAP1, subject to rule 5 below.

This treatment is analogous to the NCAA transfer rule that does not require a player to sit out a year when transferring to a lower divisional program.

NOTE: This exemption applies to CAP1 only. All head-to-head CAPS (CAP2 & CAP3) remain applicable.

Who specifically qualifies for a CAP1 transfer exemption?

Cut players moving from:

==> a gold team to a high silver team;
==> a high silver team to a low silver team; and,
==> a low silver team to another low silver team.

Any team availing itself of this exemption in the current year shall not be eligible to reclassify themselves higher in that year.

(5) The league shall limit every team to two CAP1 transfer exemptions in any three year period (CAP6).

NOTE: First year teams shall not be entitled to any transfer exemptions in their first year of league participation.

NOTE: Players that qualify for CAP1 transfer exemptions shall not count against the 3YR CAP1 MAX = 5 applicable to a team's base CAP1 allowance in the current year.

NOTE: Transfer exemptions shall NOT count as RFA losses for their prior team.

List of CUT/Transfer transactions that would qualify for CAP1 exemptions:
G --> HS ... Qual = Yes ... Count as RFA loss for team A = No

HS --> LS ... Qual = Yes ... Count as RFA loss for team A = No

LS --> LS ... Qual = Yes ... Count as RFA loss for team A = No

G --> G ... Qual = No ... Count as RFA loss for team A = Yes

HS --> HS ... Qual = No ... Count as RFA loss for team A = Yes

LS --> HS ... Qual = No ... Count as RFA loss for team A = Yes

LS --> G ... Qual = No ... Count as RFA loss for team A = Yes

(6) Unlike regular RFAs, there shall be no deadline for signing players from another team's CUT list or DNR list. To account for late RFA losses, unused compensatory credits shall be computed on July 31 and carried forward to the next season.