There wasn't really time to discuss all the nuances of allowing variable guarantee percentages. I think we'd have to get rid of the 20% cap savings and I don't really think its fair to just drop that on owners in a single offseason when we weren't really planning for that.Xulu Bak wrote: ↑Thu Jun 20, 2019 10:41 am Oh, I guess we left the guaranteed % out of the rule change for the year. Sorry, I missed that part travelling...
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to voice this earlier, but I think making guaranteed $ king, without also allowing owners to designate the % of guarantee is a huge mistake. I get that we probably did that for simplicity sake, but it doesn't make much sense from a "players' perspective" and I think it has a lot of potential for loophole/exploitation...
That said, if we're moving forward with guaranteed $ being king, and the capacity to assign years, then we need to have a serious discussion about how the FT/TT will be affected by it, because the old rules don't fit, and there is the potential for some pretty egregious loopholes without careful consideration. The old "starting point" framework doesn't work. Not by itself. There has to be a guaranteed $ component.
I'm open to discussing the tag calculations... I don't really see the loopholes and stuff you're talking about.
Admittedly, this rule change is a bit of an experiment. It might end up being terrible. We'll learn some things this offseason though, so hopefully we can improve it for next year. I'd like to discuss all this as the season goes on so we can come up with a good plan for changes next season. Either that or we go back to the old rule. We'll see.