League Wide Vote- Cash Exchanged On Player's Contract

[Billy]

Unless I'm incorrect, we will need to adjust how contracts are listed to be able to easily figure out what 25% of the entirety of a contract is correct?

We will need to know how long the deal was for, to be able to figure it out.

I'll be removing the RC section of the spreadsheet and replacing that with the players current contract (only listing years/total contract). Everyone is going to be operating as if this year is the first year of any kind of deals with regards to cash exchanges.

[OUDAN]

I'll be removing the RC section of the spreadsheet and replacing that with the players current contract (only listing years/total contract). Everyone is going to be operating as if this year is the first year of any kind of deals with regards to cash exchanges.

Ok sorry I?m confused, we are factoring in the entire current contract and can pay 25% of that? My understanding was you can pay up to 25% of the remaining contract including this year. Obviously either way is ok just wanted some clarification.

[Billy]

It's over the total contract so if someone is on a 4 year deal and they are traded with an entire year paid of their contract (which is 25%), they cannot have any more paid on them till their current contract runs out.

[OUDAN]

It's over the total contract so if someone is on a 4 year deal and they are traded with an entire year paid of their contract (which is 25%), they cannot have any more paid on them till their current contract runs out.

Totally get that, My question is whoever is on a 5 year 20m deal but is in the last year of that. We can only pay 25% of the remaining contract in that situation assuming they have no more paid on them, Is that correct?

[DynastyDeacon]

To clarify are you asking if someone originally signed a $20m per year deal for 5 years ($100m total contract) and has 1 year left of $20m can the 25% rule allow them to:

A) trade player and pay up to $20m (as $20m is only 20% of total original contract of $100m)

OR

B) trade player and pay up to $5m (25% of remaining contract of $20m)

[Ben]

It's over the total contract so if someone is on a 4 year deal and they are traded with an entire year paid of their contract (which is 25%), they cannot have any more paid on them till their current contract runs out.

On this issue, I would push for 25% of the current contract with the caveat that above say $17-20, the entire contract cannot be fully covered in 1 year. The minimum number of years should be 2-3 depending on the salary/season. The max in this league, from my understanding is essentially a total of 5 yrs/150M, or $30/season. If this is the case, 25% would be $37.5. However, in order to promote league parity (If such thing exists on a contract that large) I would propose the owner covering be limited to $20 in any season for coverage and then for remaining $17.5, that should be over 2 seasons. May not be ideal, but this should be the fairest to the rest of the league, otherwise we will continue to run into the issue of a player being covered in full with a $30 MAX for 1 season, ruining the opportunity for another team to obtain cap relief on said player after Y1 or Y(X) is completely covered by a team in a deal.

There are options I feel. Maybe, as a league Option 5 was misunderstood and it should better be defined.

[jimw]

This was like an election...a lot of people didn't vote and apparently some who did aren't sure what they voted for.

[jojowalkwalk]

option 1