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Post by San Antonio Spurs on Nov 30, 2006 1:44:58 GMT -5
Option 1
There is not a hard cap. We have a normal salary cap.
If you are over the cap, you can match any offers for your restricted free agents (people at the end of rookie contracts) at any price. You will not be able to go over the cap to resign unrestricted free agents. You will receive an MLE and an LLE, which you can use to attempt to resign your own unrestricted free agents or any other free agent. This method allows you to keep the young talent you want to build around, but forces a certain level of movement of free agents throughout the league, and will prevent mediocre players from obtaining huge contracts.
Option 2
There are three levels of caps: soft, medium, and hard. To illustrate how this would work, I will give an example of potential salary cap levels, these are not the final numbers:
Soft Cap: $60,000,000 (limit for signing new FA's)
Medium Cap: $66,000,000 (limit for resigning UFA's)
Hard Cap: $72,000,000 (limit for resigning RFA's)
The way this would work is, if you are under the cap, you can attempt to sign free agents until you reach the $60,000,000. You can try to resign your own unrestricted free agents up to the medium cap, in this case $66,000,000. You can attempt to resign restricted free agents up to the hard cap of $72,000,000, but you can never go over that number. If your salary cap is between $55m and $67m you will receive the MLE which you can try to sign other free agents. This method will ensure the movement of free agents.
Option 3
We set a hard cap which nobody can go over under any circumstances. If it is set at $75,000,000, and you have a cap of $65,000,000 you have a total of $10,000,000 you can use in the offseason, possibly $5,000,000 on signing a free agent with the MLE, and $5,000,000 resigning one of your free agents. There is no consideration between unrestricted and restricted, everything applies to this cap. This will guarantee the most amount of movement in the offseason, I would assume.
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Post by Orlando Magic on Nov 30, 2006 10:02:06 GMT -5
I firmly believe Option 1 is the best method. It makes the most sense for the good of the league. Each team will lose some free agents, but not all of them. And each team will be able to pick up new free agents, but not offer their own free agents ridiculous contracts just to make sure they don't lose them. Almost every team is already over the cap, so it wouldn't help the league to implement a hard cap.
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Post by Milwaukee Bucks on Nov 30, 2006 10:08:00 GMT -5
i should vote for option 3 because it would help my team the best, i'll have a ton of cap and if nobody can resign their free agents they will all be available for cheap, but i dont a hardcap is fair to implement in a league like this, and option 1 is just a more flexible option 2, which is going to get too complicated once the offseason actually starts, so i voted for 1. it's the most fair and makes the most sense.
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Post by San Antonio Spurs on Nov 30, 2006 16:23:19 GMT -5
Hopefully this doesn't end in a tie!
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Post by Chicago Bulls on Nov 30, 2006 17:17:40 GMT -5
I think that #3 is by far the best option.
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Post by San Antonio Spurs on Nov 30, 2006 17:21:27 GMT -5
I think that #3 is by far the best option. I don't see why you would want to lose Josh Howard and Chris Kaman this offseason, but whatever |
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Post by Philadelphia 76ers on Nov 30, 2006 17:37:42 GMT -5
The only thing i was voting is so i still can sign my guys am over the cap anyway so like this is all bad for me to tell you if people go i still will be over the cap and i dont think am going to sign any great players but if i have number 3 i can try and make a run for a good player
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Post by San Antonio Spurs on Nov 30, 2006 17:44:13 GMT -5
No.. you will only have the MLE to sign free agents
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Post by Utah Jazz on Nov 30, 2006 17:50:07 GMT -5
I have always been a strong supporter of oprion 1 as I think it is the most fair. if you are over the cap it is because you have expensive players, usually good ones, if so you should not be able to keep a monopoly on those players, such as the top teams right now, which all have several bench players who would start on 20 other teams. However we don't want to bleed teams dry either, so they can resign their young talent who the drafted to replace the expensive talent they may lose.
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Post by San Antonio Spurs on Nov 30, 2006 18:18:09 GMT -5
I have always been a strong supporter of oprion 1 as I think it is the most fair. if you are over the cap it is because you have expensive players, usually good ones, if so you should not be able to keep a monopoly on those players, such as the top teams right now, which all have several bench players who would start on 20 other teams. However we don't want to bleed teams dry either, so they can resign their young talent who the drafted to replace the expensive talent they may lose. I agree |
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Post by Milwaukee Bucks on Nov 30, 2006 18:43:18 GMT -5
if a hard cap is enforced, people can PM me offers taking on their big contracts so they can get under the hard cap
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Post by Orlando Magic on Nov 30, 2006 19:04:39 GMT -5
so what happens if we are already over the hard cap limit
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Post by Utah Jazz on Nov 30, 2006 19:10:22 GMT -5
so what happens if we are already over the hard cap limit If that wins, I would assume you would have to get under the cap by free agency. So you would have to make some trades. |
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Post by Chicago Bulls on Nov 30, 2006 19:28:39 GMT -5
SA, I just think that it would make the league the most fair for everyone.
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Post by Washington Wizards on Nov 30, 2006 21:27:18 GMT -5
SA, I just think that it would make the league the most fair for everyone. i agree |
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Post by Player Agent 3 [Clippers] on Dec 1, 2006 1:08:47 GMT -5
The best option for the league is clearly #3. There needs to be some sort of strategy to this league and tough decisions need to be made each offseason by each GM, at least that is why I joined this league. If there is no hard cap then you could basically sit back and watch your team dominate with not much decision or thought going into it. I don't care if one season one team is dominate and the next they are bad b/c of a bad offseason. GM's need to prepare for everything and since this is a year round thing then there is enough time to plan things out of who and when to trade players based on salary cap implications and who you could re-sign in the offseason. If there is a hard cap then every team has a ligitamite shot every year to contend no matter how bad they were the previous season. The league is no fun if the top 4 teams can just re-sign everyone and be able to dominate the league for 4-5 years.
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Post by San Antonio Spurs on Dec 1, 2006 1:29:58 GMT -5
I have a proposition. If option 3 gets passed, we should be able to finish this season with the crew we assembled for it. We shouldn't have to wreck our seasons to get under the hard cap and not only possibly ruin this season but future ones as well, so I think we should have a trading phase, after the season, for about the first month of the offseason, where we are still using this years contracts (so certain people like Jalen Rose and Grant Hill are still expiring contracts). This would give us the chance to finish out this season with the teams we intended, and then start over with the new rules. However, as of right now it looks like Option 1 might win, which wouldn't affect much of anything.
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Post by San Antonio Spurs on Dec 1, 2006 2:03:01 GMT -5
I just want it to go down on record that LeBron James and Dwyane Wade will be returning to the San Antonio Spurs for many years to come. If any of you were in my situation, you would make sure of that also, even if it means dumping a lot of talent for expiring contracts, or trading my other stars like Tim Duncan or Jason Terry for cheaper talent, so don't count on the chance to sign LeBron or Wade to your team in the offseason.
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Post by Utah Jazz on Dec 1, 2006 16:22:04 GMT -5
cmon, still 10 votes left
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Post by Milwaukee Bucks on Dec 1, 2006 18:55:18 GMT -5
whens the cut off date? i say give them 2 more days
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