$95m is only going to seem like a lot of money for a very short time. Once extensions take hold teams will feel the pinch. Reducing the cap at this point just to look more like the NHL is kinda silly, and too harmful on some teams. If we wanted we could keep the cap where it is and decrease the extension factor to $23K. But it's all relative and doesn't matter. I'd rather have a nice round $25K. The NHL will catch up to us in time on the cap end. I don't think anyone here cares about being untied from the NHL financials when doing it makes our game more balanced, fair and fun - FA starting next year is going to be great.
So if our cap isn't indexed to a floating multiplier that is tied to the NHL how will we calculate it in the future? If we are entirely decoupled then there is no reason to keep the current cap formula as NHL inflation has no further bearing on our fantasy point based system. Right?
The fantasy production of the top 675 contracts or so probably does not inflate. Sure there are changes in goal scoring and whatnot but I think we're going to find that if we lock in at $25k per point we'll be more or less static. So one day our stars contracts in DNHL will be half of those in the NHL.
