Tiers Remodeled

[rcankosy]

I vote yes to this proposal.  Overall, it's better than the current system.

[Colby]

 

I believe we have full approval for this with Jake, Ben, Roy, and I all on board?

[Canada8999]

I think I'm on board, but Colby can you summarize the current proposal for us, just to be sure?

[clidwin]

sorry guys that i havent been in this topic but been busy! but i seem to be aboard!

[Colby]

In 2011, the league will feature variable salary caps for all teams based on the three-year average (2008-2010) payroll (as of beginning of playing season) + $20m.  The 2009 and 2010 seasons will be numbers from Franchise GM that we have whereas 2008 will be the actual payroll number for the 2008 teams.

Use those cap numbers, movement between cap values would be based on the following formula.

Cap ranking (CAPR) - 1st for highest cap, 30th for lowest from above list
Standings (STAND) - 1st for WS champ, 9th for best team out of playoffs, 30th for worst team in MLB

CAPR(2010) = Max(0.8CAPR(2009),Min(1.2CAPR(2009),3*CAPR(2009) + STAND(2009))
* see there are 20% bound restrictions.

The new cap ranking is then hooked up with the new 3-year average + $20m.  This gives the weighting 25% to performance and 75% to current market status.

[Canada8999]

Would it be possible to include the suggestion that when we calculate a new cap number at season's end (say end of 2010), we apply it not to the immediately following season (2011) but rather the one after (2012).  If we're going to have caps tied to performance, teams should have an idea of where their budget is heading.

Otherwise, I'm on board.

[Colby]

Would it be possible to include the suggestion that when we calculate a new cap number at season's end (say end of 2010), we apply it not to the immediately following season (2011) but rather the one after (2012).  If we're going to have caps tied to performance, teams should have an idea of where their budget is heading.

Otherwise, I'm on board.

Okay, so that means the 2011 caps would be based on the current rules?

[Canada8999]

We could chose to retro-actively calculate what they would be in 2011 had we had these rules in place in 2009, although I'm not sure that's the right approach.  If the idea is more of a problem then help, then we can skip it.

[Colby]

We could chose to retro-actively calculate what they would be in 2011 had we had these rules in place in 2009, although I'm not sure that's the right approach.  If the idea is more of a problem then help, then we can skip it.

We have the standings and salary cap information from 2009.  We have MLB history from before then, so that shouldn't be a problem.  Could you draft this adjusted rule and new formula just for clarity?

[rcankosy]

Colby,

I think you meant the 3 year average of real life payroll for 2008 through 2010 + 20 million.  If you used Franchise GM payroll for 2008 and 2009 plus 20 million, the 3 year averages would actually increase the caps for 2011 because we just tacked on 20 million on top of the payrolls for 2 of the 3 years.