Salary Structure

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Here is the proposed salary structure. It looks kind of complicated but in reality its just based on points scored over a time period with the most recent seasons weighted most heavily. The first three years are team control, years 4-6 are arbitration years, and after that, a player becomes a free agent. You can re-sign your free agents for the price listed in year 7 (calculated the same in succeeding years) but you must sign them for three years (ie three years at the listed price). Alternately, you can offer arbitration - if no one else signs the player to a longer deal, you can then sign them for one year at the listed price. If someone else signs them, you get a compensatory draft pick.

 

You can download the spreadsheet and play with the salaries. Ok, I can't upload the file so I will email it to you guys.

 

Players who become free agents, are auctioned off to the league. This may be a situation where teams can offer multi-year deals (we would have to establish a best offer criteria as a combination of years and total dollars) or we could just say all deals are three years and highest dollars wins.

 

The way I see it now, the offseason cap would be $50 million and the in season cap probably about $150 million. Minor leaguers are free provided they never made your major league roster (then they would start their year count at the league minimum for that year). Players could be put on your minor league roster at any time in up to three years from their first major league realworld experience.

 

A couple of considerations would be a start of year cap possibly increasing as the season wears on - perhaps each team win adds to your allowable cap. We may also want to consider a revenue bonus to the offseason cap on a per win basis and postseason appearance bonuses and a championship bonus.

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No comments? I am working out player salaries for 2008 to see how things work. I adjusted to just three years counting toward the salary as six is too many to keep inputting (we could a year each year once the database is established but it probably isn't worth it). Found a couple bugs but things aren't too bad.

 

Should we position adjust salaries? ie should the top catcher make the same or nearly the same as the top 1b? I am thinking not but there are some advantages to playing that way and it may be more realistic to model positional scarcity that way.