Well, first, i agree with Cameron's last post. The deal with free agency is the player has the final choice...However, front-loaded contracts look scarier than they truly are, hence Gomez has the highest average salary at 7.35 million where Briere [10million in yr1 averages 6.5 million over his contract similar to Drury.]
Bertuzzi goes to Anaheim with Schneider [i guess Neids and Teemu are retiring]
Nylander joins Viktor Kozlov and Poti in WSH [the new Russia house]
Nagy, Calder, Preissing and Handzus in LA
Lang signs in CHI
Hamrlik and Smolinski in MTL
Regher re-signs in CGY, Nolan signs in CGY but when will Iggy officially re-sign?
Bonk, Ortemeyer, deVries to NSH; Mason re-signed
So Souray is asking too much? Probably for California!
Allison and Yashin want to play in the NHL
Shanny will re-sign with NYR [They 12 million under the cap]
We'll see, but this not the CBA's fault...Gambling maybe...
Showing posts with label salary cap. Show all posts
Showing posts with label salary cap. Show all posts
7/03/2007
3/01/2007
Proposal to consider for ED 2008
I read Steven Brunt's column in the Globe this morning, about how the new salary-cap economics are being used by some teams, but no-one in management seems to have mastered the art of the calculator quite yet. That's where this thought is coming from.
My impression is that the FUNHL attempts to mimic the NHL to the greatest extent possible. (see: RFAs, waivers, IRs, and prospects.) Has there been any consideration of introducing a mimic of the salary-cap system to our entry draft?
My father's baseball pool uses a bidding system on each player. The league-fees for them are $20, so they all have a salary pool of 20$, with which to go after their 24 players. As each player is drafted, every team gets a chance to bid on them. Every player on the roster gets a salary of at least a dime, so it's possible to take yourself out of bidding early by reducing yourself to a dime for the remaining slots on your roster. (Nothing sadder than having 3$ left, and no outfielders and just 1 pitcher as I recall from the one draft I participated in.)
What might it look like in the FUNHL?
Trading for players then recieves an extra-dimension, as you begin to consider their worth not only for points but also their impact on your bottom line. Prospects, at a dime apiece for 5 years become wildly valuable. RFA contracts also become interesting, if, for example, I can renew Brindamour for another year at $0.60, or whatever he would have been drafted for, might make him much more valuable.
To accomodate WDs, and give Bob/Brian/Dan and the other monster-traders some flexibility, I'd suggest that the cap grow through the season. So, going into the ED your total salary cap might be $20.80 (including 8 prospects); after the ED through to WD1 total salary cap goes to 23$; after WD1 through to the end of the season you'd get a 25$ salary-cap.
Bidding on just waived-players means you'd have to match their contract in a WD. This would make WDs a chance to slough over-priced deadweight from your roster.
I suspect FPs would have to go. You want Brodeur, you bid for Brodeur; he's not magically in the same equivalent class as Jovanovski "just 'cause."
An immediate downside is that this makes the FUNHL very much a spreadsheet & number crunching league... that may not appeal to a lot of GMs. But, it does get that touch of realism.
Anyway, throwing it out there for thoughts... because I like my number-crunching and spreadsheets.
Richard.
My impression is that the FUNHL attempts to mimic the NHL to the greatest extent possible. (see: RFAs, waivers, IRs, and prospects.) Has there been any consideration of introducing a mimic of the salary-cap system to our entry draft?
My father's baseball pool uses a bidding system on each player. The league-fees for them are $20, so they all have a salary pool of 20$, with which to go after their 24 players. As each player is drafted, every team gets a chance to bid on them. Every player on the roster gets a salary of at least a dime, so it's possible to take yourself out of bidding early by reducing yourself to a dime for the remaining slots on your roster. (Nothing sadder than having 3$ left, and no outfielders and just 1 pitcher as I recall from the one draft I participated in.)
What might it look like in the FUNHL?
Trading for players then recieves an extra-dimension, as you begin to consider their worth not only for points but also their impact on your bottom line. Prospects, at a dime apiece for 5 years become wildly valuable. RFA contracts also become interesting, if, for example, I can renew Brindamour for another year at $0.60, or whatever he would have been drafted for, might make him much more valuable.
To accomodate WDs, and give Bob/Brian/Dan and the other monster-traders some flexibility, I'd suggest that the cap grow through the season. So, going into the ED your total salary cap might be $20.80 (including 8 prospects); after the ED through to WD1 total salary cap goes to 23$; after WD1 through to the end of the season you'd get a 25$ salary-cap.
Bidding on just waived-players means you'd have to match their contract in a WD. This would make WDs a chance to slough over-priced deadweight from your roster.
I suspect FPs would have to go. You want Brodeur, you bid for Brodeur; he's not magically in the same equivalent class as Jovanovski "just 'cause."
An immediate downside is that this makes the FUNHL very much a spreadsheet & number crunching league... that may not appeal to a lot of GMs. But, it does get that touch of realism.
Anyway, throwing it out there for thoughts... because I like my number-crunching and spreadsheets.
Richard.
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