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Originally Posted by THAY3R
I think we need to look into fixing the players salary jumps. 5% seems too little to me, I think it should be more like 10% or $5 whichever is higher.
Note that this change would hurt me more so than most, but I don't think it's fair that if Delmon turns into 30 hrs .350/.550 that I should be able to have him for under $14 for the next decade. Rookies should be the best value.
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Originally Posted by Exitonly
mainly cheap players seem to be too good of assets, and i don't think $4 min contracts should be better for a team than a rookie contract - which i think should be adjusted to 4 4 4 10 15 20 not 10 30 50. so idealy i'd like to tier salary increases so that cheap players kept for long times can still be valuable but not unrealistically so/not better value than a rookie.
I agree with the sentiment that rookie's should have the lowest/best contracts in the league. I also agree that just because a guy gets picked up for $4 off the scrap heap, he's still may be a veteran player and would get a significant raise IRL if he blew the doors off during a one-year deal or was eligible for arbitration the following year.
Of the ideas posted by you guys so far, I think Exit's proposed restructuring of the rookie pay increases is the cleanest way to compensate for this concern. While that would address the rookie question, it sort of side-steps the Delmon Young scenario. I'm not sure how to approach that one, since I agree with Thayer's point, but I'm also hesitant to endorse a big addition to the current 5% annual pay increase (maybe somewhere between 5 and 10?).
I feel that if you were to institute an higher annual pay increase across the board, yes it would compensate for the Delmon's, but it would also have a possibly undesired effect of jacking up All-Star contracts that much more, when those players are already being paid accordingly and thus see significant increases each year already.
I'm sort of terrible at formulating these types of things, so I tend to look at real-life contracts for guidance, though this doesn't necessarily translate well to fantasy leagues. I can't think of an idea right now that I like enough to post here though.
I'm not against instituting a new salary rule for 2011, but it would be tricky since we've already done add/drops largely based on salaries, so any changes would have to be sort of shoehorned in. It's doable though.
Karak, what was your brilliant idea on this? Exams are over, so we can go back to just calling you lazy if you ignore the league now.
