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Colby, That's the problem. I think that the salary tiers themselves are more than sufficient in terms of replicating reality. Fundamentally, I don't believe that ANY reward or penalty for team performance is necessary or wise. In a non-salary keeper league, it would be like giving additional picks to the winning teams. Also, whether or not a team spends more or less based on their performance on the field is debatable. Nonetheless, realistic or not, I believe that type of adjustment to the cap would not be appropriate for this league. I would be fearful that GMs of bad teams would walk away from the league.That said, I would fully endorse your proposal to re-model the salary tiers and smooth them out in 2011. The cap numbers you sited from the New Era League (using 3 year averages) appeared quite reasonable.
All I am saying is that your caps will be reasonable without extreme deviation. Often enough in baseball teams have projected payrolls (based on current staff only) that drop off significantly after the first year.The Mets have the following contracts expiring in 2010OF Dye, Jermaine, $11m (2010)P Green, Sean, $0.5m (P-2010)P Misch, Pat, $0.5m (P-2010)X Redding, Tim, Released Under Contract, $2m in 2010X Wood, Kerry, Cash from CLE for 2010, $-5.5m in 2010P Wood, Kerry, $10.5m (2010)Dye, Redding, and Wood will all certainly be gone which is $18m in total. One of your best trade pieces is the most expensive in Santana, so I am sure you will be able to package him off with other expensive players and truly rebuild the Mets.
I must respectfully state that I am dead set against this plan. I admire the attempt to be more realistic, but I don't like the means. Tying in even a portion of the salary cap to team results is akin to giving the Yankees the first pick in the MLB draft. The reward to good results should be pride alone. Giving incentives such as salary dollars seems to me to exacerbate the problem of uneven cap dollars, not make it better. I am building for the long-term and my team would almost certainly take a hit to its already stretched thin salary cap. Don't this the way way guys, but there are a lot easier ways to make this realistic. For example, the first thing I noticed when I looked at team payrolls is that just about every team other than the Yankees has too high a cap compared to real life . I would suggest that we fix the caps by tying them into the Cot's baseball site. I would also give teams at least two years to get under the cap if they are adversely affected by the change.