Each team in the BBL is able to mark one of their players as a Franchise Player. This enables each team to keep a favorite player to build their future around. Here's how the Franchise Player designation works:

• A player may only be designated a Franchise Player when he is in his last season under his current contract, which means he's a potential free agent at the end of the season.
• Before the dice roll to decide whether he will negotiate with your team or not, you email the commissioner and tell him that you'd like to designate that player as your franchise player. You may not designate a player as your franchise player if there has already been a die roll to determine whether he is a free agent or not.
• The player you choose as your Franchise Player will automatically choose to negotiate with you. He will email you 3 contract offers. You may choose one of those offers to sign him to, or you may choose to not sign the player, and let him go as a free agent. If you choose the latter, you may not mark another player as a franchise player that season.
• If you sign the Franchise Player, you may not release him over the life of his contract. You may not trade him for a full in-game year after signing him. You may trade him after that year, but you can only trade him to a team that does not have a franchise player - he now becomes the franchise player of the team he was traded to.
• If at the end of his Franchise contract, when he again becomes a potential free agent, you decide to remove the tag from him and move it to another player, you may do so. HOWEVER - he is still a Franchise player in relation to transactions. You may still not release him, and a team that trades for him has to have an open Franchise slot.

If you have any questions or believe anything is missing from the above rules, post on the board or email the commissioner.