Post by Jeremiah Hill on Jul 9, 2015 3:44:25 GMT
These are for next season, and would only affect players signed, drafted, and traded after the next season starts.
D5 Off-Season Rule Changes
In Regards to the Draft:
1. All 2nd round players have Bird Rights regardless of 2 year contract or 3 year contract.
Anticipated Effect: Everyone is sick of these guys who come out of the 2nd round coming out, proving to be really worthwhile players but they are basically free players with a 3 year deal at around 1.5 million total for the length of the contract. What this will do is encourage more GM's to sign the players to the two year deal. They can still go over the cap to keep their 2nd round gem they found, but they have to add salary much quicker. In addition to this benefit, more people will let their 2nd rounders go after two years meaning less bench dwellers that make less than a million per season. Also more people to bid on in free agency.
A situation where this could have changed the league in an interesting way would be the Chandler Parsons situation. Last season Glenn would have had to decide if he wanted to keep Parsons (on a large deal) or let him go. Others would be making that same decision on Carroll and others this off-season.
2. Cap holds for Draft Picks.
I'm kind of on the fence about this one but I think there is reason for discussion here.
3. The free agency doesn't start till after the draft.
After free agency started this season everyone quit giving a crap about the draft. Free Agency should start right after the last pick is taken so that people are more motivated to make their picks.
Free Agency Rules
1. Player Agents must keep things in line with reality.
The idea of free agency this season to try and mimic real life by doing the player options thing was a good idea until reality kicked in and proved this would only be the case for the VERY best players and a few durable mid-level guys.
2. The highest free agents decide within the first day or two max.
This is how it is in real life. Everyone knows this. There is no “wait and see some more offers” with the top 5 guys because everyone that wants them is going to send an offer day 1 no one just goes on a whim and says woops forgot to send my offer to LBJ. This also prevents people from speculating and getting upset when they put so much into an offer, have to wait 2 weeks and then don't get the player. That isn't fun.
Bird Rights Rules.
1. Partial Bird Rights Players, this is an idea I had. Basically adjust Bird Rights for teams that have a player for 2 years but only allow the receiving GM the ability to offer 150% of the qualifying offer (with raises). Make the partial BR players blue text or something. Here is how it works.
I have Player A. He is on a 3 year deal for 3 million. So, 1,000,000 – 1,000,000 – 1,000,000
A year goes buy and I wanna trade him in the draft but now he only has two years left. So 1,000,000 – 1,000,000. The GM who gets this player can hold him for two years and his qualifying offer will be 1,250,000 or 125%. Then, if the GM is over the cap the max he can start his new contract for is 1,875,000. He is still allowed to offer the 11% raises and such. So his offer may look something like 1,875,000 – 2,081,250 - 2,310,187 . All the way up to the 6th year like a regular BR FA.
This rule may be kind of useless in the short term until the cap stabilizes. But it does make it so players outside of 3 year contracts don't have their value completely destroyed. This may not be a way to keep value on say a player like Chandler Parsons because he would get a big pay raise anyways. HOWEVER, on really highly paid guys such as a guy like Kevin Love, he would be able to be offered 26,663,962 for his first year and be allowed to retain the player.
This helps depress the ridiculous value that draft picks hold. At this point (pretend OKC doesn't have BR and he got him with 2 years left ) Kevin Hollis could trade Kevin Durant for two 1st round picks and people would view that as fair.
D5 Off-Season Rule Changes
In Regards to the Draft:
1. All 2nd round players have Bird Rights regardless of 2 year contract or 3 year contract.
Anticipated Effect: Everyone is sick of these guys who come out of the 2nd round coming out, proving to be really worthwhile players but they are basically free players with a 3 year deal at around 1.5 million total for the length of the contract. What this will do is encourage more GM's to sign the players to the two year deal. They can still go over the cap to keep their 2nd round gem they found, but they have to add salary much quicker. In addition to this benefit, more people will let their 2nd rounders go after two years meaning less bench dwellers that make less than a million per season. Also more people to bid on in free agency.
A situation where this could have changed the league in an interesting way would be the Chandler Parsons situation. Last season Glenn would have had to decide if he wanted to keep Parsons (on a large deal) or let him go. Others would be making that same decision on Carroll and others this off-season.
2. Cap holds for Draft Picks.
I'm kind of on the fence about this one but I think there is reason for discussion here.
3. The free agency doesn't start till after the draft.
After free agency started this season everyone quit giving a crap about the draft. Free Agency should start right after the last pick is taken so that people are more motivated to make their picks.
Free Agency Rules
1. Player Agents must keep things in line with reality.
The idea of free agency this season to try and mimic real life by doing the player options thing was a good idea until reality kicked in and proved this would only be the case for the VERY best players and a few durable mid-level guys.
2. The highest free agents decide within the first day or two max.
This is how it is in real life. Everyone knows this. There is no “wait and see some more offers” with the top 5 guys because everyone that wants them is going to send an offer day 1 no one just goes on a whim and says woops forgot to send my offer to LBJ. This also prevents people from speculating and getting upset when they put so much into an offer, have to wait 2 weeks and then don't get the player. That isn't fun.
Bird Rights Rules.
1. Partial Bird Rights Players, this is an idea I had. Basically adjust Bird Rights for teams that have a player for 2 years but only allow the receiving GM the ability to offer 150% of the qualifying offer (with raises). Make the partial BR players blue text or something. Here is how it works.
I have Player A. He is on a 3 year deal for 3 million. So, 1,000,000 – 1,000,000 – 1,000,000
A year goes buy and I wanna trade him in the draft but now he only has two years left. So 1,000,000 – 1,000,000. The GM who gets this player can hold him for two years and his qualifying offer will be 1,250,000 or 125%. Then, if the GM is over the cap the max he can start his new contract for is 1,875,000. He is still allowed to offer the 11% raises and such. So his offer may look something like 1,875,000 – 2,081,250 - 2,310,187 . All the way up to the 6th year like a regular BR FA.
This rule may be kind of useless in the short term until the cap stabilizes. But it does make it so players outside of 3 year contracts don't have their value completely destroyed. This may not be a way to keep value on say a player like Chandler Parsons because he would get a big pay raise anyways. HOWEVER, on really highly paid guys such as a guy like Kevin Love, he would be able to be offered 26,663,962 for his first year and be allowed to retain the player.
This helps depress the ridiculous value that draft picks hold. At this point (pretend OKC doesn't have BR and he got him with 2 years left ) Kevin Hollis could trade Kevin Durant for two 1st round picks and people would view that as fair.