*Why being nice is ruining league parity

[IsaStarcrossed]

I don't think I have a fix in mind. Raising the cap is a good idea in my mind. Then people might not be afraid of taking minimum if every team has an extra 10 million bucks laying around. I feel eventually the same thing will happen and every team will just put the extra cap into OL "for the good of the team".

Raising minimums is a maybe, but not sure it'll pass because as Isa pointed out, higher minimums = less actives on the team. But why even have contracts? Why not everyone just get paid based on their TPE on a year to year basis? As Isa pointed out, 20/20 COL players are already within 1m of minimum. Most teams are near that number. Let's just scrap contracts and set rewards purely on league jobs and TPE... But I feel that wouldn't pass because then teams couldn't manipulate the cap and contracts for their own advantage as they do now.

I think a realistic fix is more people setting TPE clauses in their contracts. Eg. player at 415 TPE signs a 3 year extension. 2 million dollar base pay with 1 million dollar bonus for reaching 600 TPE. Something to think about.

Awesome thoughts here all around to be honest. The truth is that one of my biggest complaints about this league since I joined is the operation of contracts and the manipulation of the minimum. It certainly is a huge issue for our league and something that should be discussed more often. Hopefully stuff like this can continue to open avenues of dialog so we can come up with a plan or a structure to actually fix the problem at hand while not inhibiting what players enjoy about the league!