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I'd do it because we are aligned closely to the economics of the NHL, and in this instance we are drastically different. That result trickles down to unbalanced rosters. I'd be good with reducing the extension to 3 years as it resembles a more established NHL bridge deal. Rebuilding teams would have more options to chose from as players can't be locked up for so long on top teams.
Other than the fact that our resign values are taken from actual NHL contract values I don't see how the economics in our league are aligned that closely with the NHL. Our salary cap is roughly based off the increases and decreases of the real life NHL salary cap but the NHL has alot more teams then we do. The 19/20 real life NHL salary cap is 81.5m. This means that the NHL can spend up to 2.5265 Billion Dollars on player salaries. DNHL has a salary cap of 87m this year which means we only have 1.74 Billion to spend on player salaries. This means that in DNHL we have 68.9% of the money that the actual NHL has to spend on salary. The other thing that DNHL has is rebuilding teams that aren't forced to spend all there salary cap space on players. Not to pick on anyone but lets look at Arizona's roster in DNHL. They have 5 players on there team that are signed to contracts above the minimum. They hoard prospects on their roster because they find more value in future players then they do the Nick Bonino's and Lars Ellers who are available as free agents. In the real life NHL this would never happen. NHL teams are forced to spend up to a minimum amount of the cap. Arizona, due to his roster construction, has effectively removed $50m of money from our league that won't go to player salaries. He will use that money to pay huge one year deals on older players to try and extract prospects and picks for more future value. These are things you would never see in the real life NHL and impact the economics in our league.Beyond that there is a big difference between NHL value and DNHL fantasy value. We value players by how many fantasy points they produce per game. NHL values other things that we don't like defense and position scarcity. NHL teams value centers more then wingers. They also highly value defensemen, seems teams can never find enough of them in the real world. Those biases can be found in real life NHL contracts and are evident in our resign values. Lets look at the 60th ranked center, left wing and right wing in DNHL last year (I'm not going to take into account that some players have multiple position eligibility). 60th ranked Center = Casey Cizikas - 184.4 pts60th Ranked Left Wing = Josh Bailey - 186.15 pts60th Ranked Right Wing = Andrei Svechnikov - 185.8 ptsNow all of these players scored pretty similarly last year. You would expect that the resign values of these players in DNHL would be pretty similar. The 60th ranked center has a resign value of $4.8m, the 60th Left wing has a resign value of $2.0m and the 60th ranked Right wing has a resign value of $1.9m. We pay more money for centers in this league simply because the NHL values them more then wingers in the real life NHL. Centers don't provide more value in DNHL then wingers do though so why do we pay them more? This is why I don't really think it makes alot of sense to look at what a player is making in the NHL and comparing it to there DNHL salary. Its not going to make sense and it never will. Players have different values in DNHL then the NHL. Your argument against the prospect extension seems to be that players like Sebastian Aho are making $8.5m in the NHL but only $6.0m in DNHL. Is $6m dollars close to his actual value in DNHL? Do you know what his actual value is when comparing fantasy points across all the players in our league? Because his $6m salary is about 70% of what his NHL salary is and thats pretty close to the 68.9% of the money we have to spend in DNHL compared to NHL salaries. His contract is also 5 years long which is exactly the same length as our prospect extensions.You're trying to take actual NHL contracts and compare them to salaries for players in our league. I don't think NHL contract values really align with the actual fantasy values of players in our league. Therefore I don't see the prospect contract as an issue in DNHL. Its may not exactly match the real life NHL but I think it adds a nice wrinkle and helps rebuilding teams lock up talent at a decent rate for a while. It results in salaries that don't match the NHL amounts but those NHL contracts don't match the value of a player in DNHL anyways.
It also makes it harder for rebuilding teams to rebuild. A good team in this league is going to have a bunch of these low cost prospect extension contracts. This allows them to stay good longer while rebuilding teams stay crap longer. Obviously some GMs are just good and will keep finding prospects that produce, but in our current system there is less opportunity of turnover of players.
That's an interesting take. Not sure I agree, but definitely worth considering.
The strength of all sides of this conversation is why I love this league and why I have embarked on my long-term roster build in the first place.