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Originally Posted by Goody
ANYTHING, to fix this shuffling of star players off to already loaded teams.
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Salary caps will not cure that problem. It could make it much worse.
Same thing happens in NBA a lot. Actually the kind of trade that sent Garnett to Boston and Gasol to Los Angeles only happened because of salary cap. In MLB teams would have traded for real talent instead of cap space. In NFL, we actually see teams releasing star players for salary cap reasons. When you have salary caps, you lost payroll flexibility, therefore you can't pay the team more just because the team is better. You are forced to fit everybody into the cap, therefore good but not good enough for the cap space-consumed would be let go.
To limit star player movement, you have to tinker with transaction rules. Stuff like giving the original team easier ways to buy back free agents ( restricted free agency, Bird rights, franchise tags) , limit trades ( reduce the trade window; limit what players can be traded), change contract terms ( guaranteed contracts), AND make sure salary cap is not going to be in the way.