Post by Newcastle Red Star on Feb 27, 2020 13:55:49 GMT
Just throwing this out there as it's something we do in another league I'm in.
What are people's thoughts on a rule whereby you could release a player and opt to pay all the costs up front?
As an example, if I had an underperforming player on $6m for 3 years that I wanted shut of, I'd have to have a cap hit of $1.5m this year then watch $3m go off my budget for each of the next 2 years. If I've got the $8m or so of cap space now and I'm not competing, it'd be in my interests to spend the money this year and get that budget space in the next auction.
It'd help teams get rid of bad contracts and get back to being competitive more quickly, and less likely to have to hold on to bad players because of the cost of removing them. It could also facilitate more trading, if there's a team with plenty of cap space in rebuild mode then they could take more bad contracts and some prospects/useful players with them from competing teams.
Obviously, if you don't have the space or would rather the payments spread out then the old system would remain the default, but I can see it being a useful tweak to the rules and make the league more competitive.
Thoughts?
What are people's thoughts on a rule whereby you could release a player and opt to pay all the costs up front?
As an example, if I had an underperforming player on $6m for 3 years that I wanted shut of, I'd have to have a cap hit of $1.5m this year then watch $3m go off my budget for each of the next 2 years. If I've got the $8m or so of cap space now and I'm not competing, it'd be in my interests to spend the money this year and get that budget space in the next auction.
It'd help teams get rid of bad contracts and get back to being competitive more quickly, and less likely to have to hold on to bad players because of the cost of removing them. It could also facilitate more trading, if there's a team with plenty of cap space in rebuild mode then they could take more bad contracts and some prospects/useful players with them from competing teams.
Obviously, if you don't have the space or would rather the payments spread out then the old system would remain the default, but I can see it being a useful tweak to the rules and make the league more competitive.
Thoughts?
