RFA Reintroduction and Small Salary Tweaks

[Rayzor_7 741]

There's a lot of writing here so I'll keep this short. I want to reintroduce RFA's, give players more interest in contracts and make the overall structure a bit better for QOL

 

 

• Rookie: A player in their 1^st, 2^nd or 3^rd season after being drafted (considered as entry-level period)
• Prime: A player who is not eligible to be on a Rookie contract and is not regressing. (Seasons 3-8)
   

Rookie Contract Structure:

Rookie Contracts must be a minimum of 1 season, and a maximum of 3 seasons.
If the contract is only 1 or 2 seasons long, the rookie will be considered a restricted free agent.
If the contract is 3 seasons long, the rookie has the option to pursue unrestricted free agency at the conclusion of the contract.
If a rookie is not offered a contract by the last day of the succeeding pre-season, they will become an unrestricted free agent.
If a rookie contract concludes while the player is still eligible for RFA, their new contract must continue to abide by rookie rules for any seasons where they are still RFA eligible.
 

Prime Contract Structure:

A prime contract will come into effect starting with a player's 4th season.
At the expiration of a contract, a player will become an unrestricted free agent.

 

Your ELC as a rookie would be either

1/2 seasons - go to RFA

3 seasons - go to UFA

 

RFA Rules:

Two ways to go about this;

1.    Teams may offer contracts up to the end of your rookie phase (1-2 seasons) and the team that holds your rights may choose to match that contract and if they do so you will receive that contract with your current team.

 

OR

 

2.    Teams may offer contracts up to the end of your rookie phase (1-2 seasons). If you choose one of their contracts over your current teams offer, then the team that holds your rights will receive the following compensation;

 

Under 400 TPE - Second Round Pick

401-600 TPE – First Round Pick

601-800 TPE – First Round and Second Round Picks

801+ TPE – Two First Round Picks

 

Minor adjustments to low end of bracket and high end

TPA/TPE Bracket    Rookie           Prime          

Under 300            $1 500 000        $1 750 000

301-400                $1 500 000        $2 000 000

401-500               $2 000 000        $2 500 000

501-600               $2 500 000        $3 500 000

601-700               $3 000 000        $4 000 000

701-800               $3 500 000        $4 500 000

801-900               $4 000 000        $5 000 000

901-1000             $4 500 000        $5 500 000

1001+                   $5 000 000        $6 000 000

I would like to see the cap bumped to $50 000 000 to compensate for possible player adjustments as well as the shift in teams running more players.

 

 

More of a side note but something of interest.

TPA Freeze Rule: A rule I’d like to introduce for the benefit of teams and GM’s. If a player wishes to stay in a lower bracket for the season, they may ask for a TPA freeze. In doing so they would be “frozen” at their current TPA and would not be allowed to apply TPE until completion of the season.

Ex. A player at 800 TPA wishes to stay in that bracket then they could request a TPA Freeze. Their player would be an 800 TPA player for the season and would be worth 3.5/4.5M (rookie/prime). The can then earn TPE into 801+ and not be bumped up into the 4/5M bracket.

If a player and GM want to go back on this during the season, then the players cap hit will be his bracket at time of unfreeze +$500 000 to avoid abuse.

Ex. 800 TPA unfreezes at 925, his hit would be 5/6M rather than 3.5/4.5 when he froze. The player also only receives his original contract and not his new cap hit.

 

 

So I'll ping @Beaviss as commissioner, @tfong as the Public Liaison to hopefully get this discussed by the BOD.

Since you read everything anyways @zepheter

[Fire Tortorella 2,653]

I've already made my arguments for why I'm against RFAs.

 

And no to the TPA freeze in my opinion. If you want to stay down a salary bracket, just stop earning before the season - it's not like your salary goes up mid-season. I don't follow the salary cap enough to speak about the specifics of it.

 

In general, the salary cap is should feel "low" in order to stop teams from having too many high end players, or too many players in general. 

[zepheter 586]

I did notice the other day that many players don't tend to stay with the same team very long. Whether it's because of UFA signings or trades I don't know. Considering I've never even experienced a full VHL season, I don't have a clue what the statistic is of players staying with or walking away from the team that drafted them once their ELC expires. If it were up to me, the team would have their rights. It could potentially promote loyalty to the team with players knowing they can't leave pretty much whenever they want. Also the draft pick used to select that player seems fairly insignificant if they just leave after three seasons. Just my two cents on the matter for whatever it's worth. And maybe I just don't understand it, but I don't necessarily like the freeze rule. 

 

Thanks for the mention.

[Victor 10,910]

TPE freeze: the problem is, without changing the incentives in player store (which we've tried so many variations I think we can safely say player store will never make money really worthwhile in the VHL) or overhauling how we use money in general (a worthy discussion if someone wants to start it, but would be a very long process), there would be little incentive to unfreeze. Stay at 4mil forever to help the team out, not like you'd miss out on much.

 

RFAs: Don't massively care, the current rules are relatively new, not even sure if 10 seasons old, brought in because for 60 seasons, no one bothered to use the RFA system really. Not necessarily a bad thing though, with an 8-season career and short contending windows, knowing your prospect will stick around for 3 is at least some guarantee you don't really get with how short-term a GM's approach has to be.