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I agree to points made by Jon about wanting to keep things simple and to cut out some of the work. The extra work that needs done is, I am sure, very tedious and time consuming.I also agree with Chris on a lot of his points. I agree that changing things after the fact is usually not a good thing, but I don't see this as a deal breaker by any means as long as it makes the league better for ALL.The cheap talent for so long though is problematic in my opinion. I think that if you want to go with a flat salary during arb years then you need to at least split it to go with years 1-3 and years 4-6 and average out the salaries that are in place now for those years. So years 1-3 would be worth 500K and years 4-6 would be worth 2.5M.I think too that by stripping out the arb years salaries, as they stand, you take away some of the strategy to the league. I think that some owners who are better at prospects will have an advantage over those that are not as strong in that area. They will be able to run out a cheap competitive team for years and years while others spend in FA like there is no cap and get stuck with players that they can't move because of the high salary.So again...understanding the issues, I say leave it as it is or split it up to two salary groups within the 6 year arb years.
I don't have a cool acronym but sometimes simple is stupid. Personally, this will set my team up well because I have a ton of players in arbitration. For the league it's going to be a bad thing though. Here's why. First, there'll be no such thing as a difficult decision in tendering a contract. Those 5th and 6th year players that you don't want to pay millions to now won't get cut. So this limits the free agent pool. Second, extensions are based on the 6th year contract so now extensions will be incredibly cheap which limits the free agent pool. Third, you're going to pump even more money into free agency because people will have it to spend since they're going to be saving it in arbitration. So few free agents, more money to spend, and that's not hard to see where that goes. In addition, there's a reason why leagues have rules set date. It's so people can plan a strategy for their teams with confidence in the rules being stable. Right now there are teams that should be over the cap that have been allowed to continue bidding on free agents and acquiring players by restructuring contracts. Part of what makes this game fun is dealing with the cap constraints. The cap is meaningless if there are no consequences for going over. By changing the rules in midstream you're dramatically affecting results in here and you're dramatically changing the values of players. There's a ton of confusion in this league about the rules.