Contract negotiations

[vaughn99]

Quote: Originally Posted by TWOSILK

also LM also does fluctating contracts as well [...] because sometime LM does backloaded contracts, and sometimes they frontload them

I feel like this is what adds a level of "agent/player" to the negotiations. If one of the 3 options doesn't work for your team, you can't resign the player. For instance, for me -- P Hillis is under contract for the rest of the year for 300K (hahaha), but if I want to resign him, it'll cost me 5m+ whether I want to sign him for 1 yr, 3 yrs or 5yrs (the bonus waivers a little bit). Sure LM is just using his OVR to create that number, but it's as good a place as any to start -- he's worth 5m/yr for me to resign, if he went into FA there's a chance he'd get more (or less, depending).

[LBzrule]

I would like to work Ngata's real contract into this somehow.

He just signed a five year extension in which in the first two years he's going to get 40 mil. OUCH. How can this work? I'm not sure what the remaining three years of the deal will be but the first two has him grossing 40 mil.

[LBzrule]

Ok the actual deal is 5 years 61 mil.

[TWOSILK]

Quote: Originally Posted by LBzrule

Ok the actual deal is 5 years 61 mil.

if you want to i can put his new contract in at about 11million a season, starting now, or you can take your chances with the LM resign process your call.

[cdotts]

so how is this going to work are we going to be using LM for resigning players? or are we going to use some other system? Id like to know before i start trading for/away players who are on contract years

[TWOSILK]

Quote: Originally Posted by cdotts

so how is this going to work are we going to be using LM for resigning players? or are we going to use some other system? Id like to know before i start trading for/away players who are on contract years

as far as i know we are using LM for resigns, that way they will be universal, and we wont be rewarding you math majors, who can be using the cap to your advantage, everyone will use LM.

[cdotts]

Quote: Originally Posted by TWOSILK

as far as i know we are using LM for resigns, that way they will be universal, and we wont be rewarding you math majors, who can be using the cap to your advantage, everyone will use LM.

so then you will probably just look at the salary cap and adjust the salary cap up 3-10% each year just like the NFL does?

[TWOSILK]

Quote: Originally Posted by cdotts

so then you will probably just look at the salary cap and adjust the salary cap up 3-10% each year just like the NFL does?

more or less, the exact numbers will be announced every year.