*PMoney's take on Money

Memento Mori · 04-27-2020, 02:54 PM

Potentially unbalanced solution that just popped into my head. Feel free to tear it apart.

I tried to think of something that would cost a lot of money, that people would want to buy, but also that wouldn't be game-breaking. The only idea I can think of that I actually like is the ability to prolong a player's career.

Currently, as a recent article pointed out, max earners retire after (at most) 13 seasons due to the way regression is calculated, and less-than-max earners also retire after (at most) 13 seasons.

Let's say you're infinite. You've done lots for the league so have a huge bank account, etc. With Wolfie or a future player, perhaps infinite thinks something like 'if only I could have 1-2 more seasons with this player, I think they could win a championship or put together a surefire Hall of Fame case'.

Adding 1-2 seasons before regression would mess with the all-time TPE rankings and perhaps be broken, but maybe you can flatten the curve with regards to regression?

Just throwing some numbers out there to come up with ballpark figures. You have a 1200 TPE player prior to regression, and you earn 150 TPE per season to make things easy to calculate.

After year 7, you regress 20% to 960 TPE. Gain 150, regress 25% to 833 after year 8. You're at 692 after year 9, 505 TPE after year 10, 325 TPE after year 11, 190 TPE after year 12, retire after year 13.

If you could have a player above 500 or so TPE for longer, you could chase career stats/make a stronger Hall of Fame case/not get screwed over if the team you're on is in a rebuild when you hit your peak.

Personally, if I was approaching the end of Booker's career and he was almost worthy of HoF consideration, or Booker hadn't won a championship and was running out of time to do so, I'd pay an exorbitant amount of money to prolong his career a bit. And it wouldn't really have an unfair or negative effect on anyone except retired players or HoF truthers who are offended by people having more time to accumulate stats and accolades.