Post by Nuggets GM (League Commish) on Apr 11, 2013 7:36:26 GMT -5
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This will be the last off season that we actually use restricted free agent tags, because they are a flaw in the salary cap system. The point of a salary league is the skill of allocating salaries, and the tags take some of that strategy away. When this league initially started, we started the league by selecting NBA team composed of players with real time current contracts many of which had star players on short term contracts that made some teams immediately unattractive by many prospective Gm's. For example: At the beginning of last year the Utah Jazz had AL Jefferson, Paul Millsapp and Mo Williams on one year contracts, thus the Jazz were one of those organizations that were not selected by any GM in this league, thus that was a team broken down and dissolved in the retraction draft. My attempt was to remedy that fear by having a few policies that would allow owners to protect some players that they may have inherited on these short term contracts.
The thing that makes salary league so much superior to traditional keeper leagues is that in keeper leagues there is really no way to control the balance of the league once an owner or two has monopolized a certain amount of talent in any given league. Once you own LeBron and Durant on the same team, nobody can break that immediate monopoly until Lebron and Durant actually break down on the court. The salary cap system shouldn't put fear into the minds of owners that have star players on short term contracts. Point and case, the Atlanta Hawks in this league. That is a team that is short on talent, and its best player (Josh Smith) was on a one year contract. This is why I couldn't give this team away to any owners. But the irony is that while this team is short on talent, it currently has 65M under the cap. That's 65M to spend on free agency. And, if Artest opts out of his player option that will put that team 72M under the cap. That is a whole lot of money, and the new owner I find for that team should be able to compete immediately if he makes the right moves. Imagine for a moment if we had no tags in this league, what Atlanta could do with that money? That team would be in the market for Chris Paul, Paul Milsapp and James Hardin and probably have enough money to sign all three and a couple other mid tier free agents.
In other words, the salary system is the great equalizer and GM's don't have to wait 2 or even 3 years to rebuild a team. It can happen immediately, and I would like to open the possibility of removing it this offseaon, if GM's are comfortable. I just wanted to throw that option out there, and would like to hear back from all GM's on this. If GM's are uncomfortable with abolishing RFA tags this year, we will keep going according to plan for this year.
Thoughts?
This will be the last off season that we actually use restricted free agent tags, because they are a flaw in the salary cap system. The point of a salary league is the skill of allocating salaries, and the tags take some of that strategy away. When this league initially started, we started the league by selecting NBA team composed of players with real time current contracts many of which had star players on short term contracts that made some teams immediately unattractive by many prospective Gm's. For example: At the beginning of last year the Utah Jazz had AL Jefferson, Paul Millsapp and Mo Williams on one year contracts, thus the Jazz were one of those organizations that were not selected by any GM in this league, thus that was a team broken down and dissolved in the retraction draft. My attempt was to remedy that fear by having a few policies that would allow owners to protect some players that they may have inherited on these short term contracts.
The thing that makes salary league so much superior to traditional keeper leagues is that in keeper leagues there is really no way to control the balance of the league once an owner or two has monopolized a certain amount of talent in any given league. Once you own LeBron and Durant on the same team, nobody can break that immediate monopoly until Lebron and Durant actually break down on the court. The salary cap system shouldn't put fear into the minds of owners that have star players on short term contracts. Point and case, the Atlanta Hawks in this league. That is a team that is short on talent, and its best player (Josh Smith) was on a one year contract. This is why I couldn't give this team away to any owners. But the irony is that while this team is short on talent, it currently has 65M under the cap. That's 65M to spend on free agency. And, if Artest opts out of his player option that will put that team 72M under the cap. That is a whole lot of money, and the new owner I find for that team should be able to compete immediately if he makes the right moves. Imagine for a moment if we had no tags in this league, what Atlanta could do with that money? That team would be in the market for Chris Paul, Paul Milsapp and James Hardin and probably have enough money to sign all three and a couple other mid tier free agents.
In other words, the salary system is the great equalizer and GM's don't have to wait 2 or even 3 years to rebuild a team. It can happen immediately, and I would like to open the possibility of removing it this offseaon, if GM's are comfortable. I just wanted to throw that option out there, and would like to hear back from all GM's on this. If GM's are uncomfortable with abolishing RFA tags this year, we will keep going according to plan for this year.
Thoughts?
