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Skipaway · 11-19-2009, 12:07 AM

A team's budget will NOT be the same. If you have money allocated to you that you can ONLY use through giving your own players contract extentions, it will go to contract extentions. I don't even know how teams can come up with excuses not to keep their players anymore.

And when that happens, you are basically making sure all players will either stay with the teams they have been with, or they go to very very rich teams that can overcome the 30% gap.

So the end result is more money allocated to player contracts, boosting overall payroll. Teams get to keep their own players, but very hard to improve through free agency unless you are very rich.

I fail to see how that's a better system.

11-19-2009, 12:07 AM	#17 (permalink)
Skipaway Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Where you live Posts: 10,453 Thanks: 2 Thanked 49x in 40 posts	A team's budget will NOT be the same. If you have money allocated to you that you can ONLY use through giving your own players contract extentions, it will go to contract extentions. I don't even know how teams can come up with excuses not to keep their players anymore. And when that happens, you are basically making sure all players will either stay with the teams they have been with, or they go to very very rich teams that can overcome the 30% gap. So the end result is more money allocated to player contracts, boosting overall payroll. Teams get to keep their own players, but very hard to improve through free agency unless you are very rich. I fail to see how that's a better system. __________________ Jonathan Haidt: Moral reasoning is really just a servant masquerading as a high priest.