11-12-2012, 05:46 PM
(11-12-2012, 12:34 PM)mattynokes Wrote: Proposal
1. Anyone can be compensation eligible
2. Fallback will be a constant salary, same for every player (TBD, but likely in the $10-12M range)
3. Bids on players offered fallback must be within certain percents of the fallback
Again, I think this accomplishes the goal. It promotes more players (and more quality players) into FA. While I think JHC's formula was great and did it's job, it still slights players who had an injury season in the past 2 years. And maybe there's good reason for that, but that's the beauty of a constant fallback salary. Will the rest of the GMs see the injury as an anomaly, something to overlook, or will they see it as the reason to steer clear of the player - sticking the offering team with the salary. I just have to think they we've had teams re-sign high 80s to low 90s players they would have released in FA because they couldn't receive compensation.
Another option could be to still use calculate salaries, but have a max and min. Max of $16M and min of $8M would be appropriate. That way it'd be tough to get compensation on the fringe guys and when Mogul calculates those crazy high numbers you aren't looking at unreasonably high fallback prices.
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