Jazz will resign some players before Feb 1st deadline.

3 years on:

Rudy Gobert 20m
-Based on 40th overall 2018-19

Andre Drummond 23m
-Based on 24th overall 2019-20 (March 11th)


1 year on:

Derrick Rose 6m
-Based on 156th overall 2019-20 (March 11th)


Will not resign and wait till off season to decide:

Daniel Theis
Lou Williams
Dennis Schroder      

4yr 0.9m

4yr 0.9m

McNabb to IR and activate Roslovic 

This is something I've recently been mulling over a few days now, and was able to look into numbers today to get this proposal. I know this is a pretty big change, but the current franchise tag values are pricey and really mostly will be used for the top tier guys. As we are in our 3rd season now there has not been much rule changes and league is in good health, but I am thinking this is something that might make league better.

I am not going to rush this and appreciate all feedback, if you like the idea but not the specifics I am open to modifying slightly and/or starting only 2 offseason for now if this is what most prefeed (if we implement it I prefer to allow starting this year but understand it might be more fair to wait a year). While the idea is straight forward, this post contains a lot so do take time to digest everything as I figured best to include as much detail as possible to help everyone evaluate. Hopefully it's clear and I think I'll probably be repeating my self but just want to stress exactly how I thought it would work.

Current regular tag is here for reference: http://www.profsl.com/smf/index.php?action=post;msg=1462148;topic=376222.0

Proposed 2020-2021 Tier 2 Franchise Tag Values (50% of regular tag)

We allow a 2nd tag based on primary position that is exactly 50% of regular tag, with the catch that player must be outside of top 15 for the specific position based on Fantrax ranks last 2 seasons.

Note: Fantrax has guys with multiple potions but we still use spotrac.com as the way to determine the primary position for us. However, if a guy is listed as PG/SG as an example we will include him in top 15 on both lists to keep it simple. When you see the list below the overlap players were kept in and some players may also be top 15 1 season not both. Check spreadsheet for your primary position on players, but also good to double check sportac in case there is discrepancy.  Also, I am not huge on how Fantrax ranks things but it is best we have to go off of.

Very simply put a non RFA player ranked top 15 and expiring is eligible to be kept at existing tag. Same idea but for anyone ranked 16 or greater can be kept at discount tag as show below for current values.

PG Value: $16.1m

SG Value: $14.7m

SF Value: $12.0m

PF Value: $12.8m

C Value: $13.0m


Essentially along with RFA process (these players are always excluded from Tag option to begin with) everyone is now allowed to keep 1 super star with current tag and 1 top tier role player/star player if we allow 2nd tag, before entering FA. Some teams may still not use either, or only 1 but just gives another option for team control.

Players that would only be eligible for regular tag are going to be those end of current season ranks + season rank last year but for this past season cut of March 11th, as this is used in my other league and makes sense due to pandemic shorted season. This season things change daily, not sure it makes sense to post players now with so much year left, but if you want to see how things look today can play around on Fantrax filters anytime, but I am sharing the list that is final from last year as a base for you to get a sense of things.

I am thinking this helps with assessing if you have guys outside of this list that are not worth full tag but would make sense on the 50% discount.

Excluded players for tier 2 tag (i.e. they would fall under regular tag option only if eligible) based only on last season at the moment, March 11th, 2020 as cut off

As mentioned, final list for current season will be determined end of regular year so will have 1 clean list at this time should this pass, but since last season won't change this is the base to work with:


PG

James Harden
LeBron James
Zach LaVine
Damian Lillard
Jrue Holiday
Luka Doncic
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
CJ McCollum
Trae Young
Chris Paul
Donovan Mitchell
Kyle Lowry
Russell Westbrook
Devonte' Graham
Terry Rozier

SG

James Harden
Kawhi Leonard
Zach LaVine
Bradley Beal
Jrue Holiday
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
Brandon Ingram
CJ McCollum
Donovan Mitchell
Andrew Wiggins
Jimmy Butler
Devonte' Graham
Buddy Hield
Terry Rozier
Will Barton

SF

James Harden
Jayson Tatum
LeBron James
Giannis Antetokounmpo
Kawhi Leonard
Zach LaVine
Robert Covington
Jrue Holiday
Luka Doncic
Tobias Harris
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
Brandon Ingram
Kelly Oubre Jr.
Andrew Wiggins
Jimmy Butler

PF

Jayson Tatum
Anthony Davis
LeBron James
Giannis Antetokounmpo
Nikola Jokic
Robert Covington
Pascal Siakam
Kristaps Porzingis
Tobias Harris
Brandon Ingram
Bam Adebayo
Nikola Vucevic
Andre Drummond
LaMarcus Aldridge
Kelly Oubre Jr.

C

Anthony Davis
Giannis Antetokounmpo
Nikola Jokic
Robert Covington
Kristaps Porzingis
Bam Adebayo
Nikola Vucevic
Andre Drummond
LaMarcus Aldridge
Al Horford
Jaren Jackson
Karl-Anthony Towns
Brook Lopez
Joel Embiid
Kevin Love


Think I covered everything and got it correctly, so based on feedback we will see what makes the most sense.