*Minimum Contracts: What to do?

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Yeah but sometimes it's not a person being only a player. The Otters have at least 4 players in their front office who handle scouting, strategy, and all sorts of other tasks that other teams would only have a GM do. These might be considered normal players because they aren't technically GMs, but they are by all accounts heavily invested in their team. Which is more in their best interest, charging more money for a contract to earn more TPE or taking a cheap contract to help the team that they put time and effort into managing find success? The lines are blurred in situations like this and to them being selfish is actually putting their team first, because they are already dedicating free time to make the team better, why not make your job easier and give your team more cap?

Okay. I get that. Two things. 1) If they mean so much to the team in terms of scouting an strats, they should be rewarded for it with a larger contract for the work they put in. I'm not trying to dissuade people from loving their favourite team. And home town discounts should be a thing. But when have we every heard of Tom Brady taking a minimum contract to help out the Patriots. He does plenty of strategizing and other tasks team wide.

2) The top guys taking minimums to help their team defeats the purpose of a salary cap or money in the first place. Why don't we just let people choose who they play for if no team is gonna be put in a cap crunch from "team players" that take minimums. See Tom Brady point above.

I get that you're saying that these players want to take low contracts to help the rest of the team out, I get that. But it's not fair to teams that pay their players a decent and fair wage because they don't have a league job, you know?