*Scrap minimum salaries and make contracts more fun

[The_Kidd]

1. I think we should reflect pro sports and implement a rookie scale contract. They get paid a guaranteed salary for the lifetime of a DSFL tenure, if they are called up, they still locked into that rookie deal(so all rookie deals would be 3 seasons). If player is drafted in R1/R2 then they get 5 million annually, R3/R4 - 4 million annually, R5 and later(where it's mostly inactives) would be 3 million. In the expiring season, if an in-season extension isnt agreed upon, player will enter Restricted Free Agency meaning his parent team can choose to match any outside offers(or work a trade to send that player off)
   
2. The IA minimum, to help offset #1, if a team has a player that has not updated for 3/4 of the season(12 games) or the last month prior to final update of the season --- that player's contract can be reworked to a 2 mil minimum(if base salary is less than that, they can be exchanged for a free bot player). Team would have to make a claim to Update Team and if Update Team approves then Budget Team will be notified of salary changes.
   
3. Option can only be used ONCE during the lifetime of original contract AND must only be applied in first or last year of contract. No one really switches teams anyway though. 
   
4. Each option applied adds $100,000 to the players' cap hit
   
5. The Larry Rule - if a team has cap space, they are allowed to sign one player per season to a contract that will exceed no more than 3x the available salary in the 1st season as their FINAL FA signing. In first year, team cap will read as 0,000,000 and the player's cap hit will be 100% applied the successive seasons
   
6. Vet Min Salary Base Kicker - starting in player's 7th season, player's will be applied a uniform longevity bonus of 2.5% of the salary cap that will be tacked on to their base salary
   

Just some ideas on my head after reading your post