Re: Salary idea

["Jim Meninno" <jim_meninno@hotmail.com>]

I think this is, in practical terms, the same as the suggestion I had a 
week or so ago that I incorrectly called a hard cap.  In that scheme, a 
fixed percentage of revenues would be designated for salaries and, if 
the league spent less, the remainder would be distributed to the players 
according to their salary.  Your system does the math beforehand.  I 
still like the idea of deciding up front how much money goes to the 
players and not leaving it as a "cap".  Some of the issues that Kim so 
enthusiastically pointed out will still remain.  For instance, what 
happens if you've already allocated your 100% and then you draft a 
couple of players.  You would have to reduce someone's percentage to 
give it to the draftees.  Issues like that would end up getting solved 
with exceptions and you would end up with teams at 115%.  In the end, I 
don't think anything is gained by converting dollars to percentages 
other than knocking about six zeros off the numbers so that they don't 
look so vulgar to the common folk.

Jim

>From: "ramani_rite"@lnmta.bentley.edu
>To: celtics@igtc.com
>Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 09:16:53 -0500
>Subject: Salary idea
>
>I have an idea...(the question who doesn't)
>
>Instead of having players signing contract in dollar terms, instead 
sign
>them to
>percentage contracts.
>
>The league and the players union will decided (hopefully soon) what
>percentage of total revenues the player's salary will go towards.
>Out of that percentage, the individual player will sign a contract 
worth a
>percentage of the revenue percentage. (Is this clear? Did everyone
>understand?)
>


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