[USML Announce] USML Rules Voting

john.fruit at usbank.com john.fruit at usbank.com
Mon Feb 9 11:16:56 EST 2004


Well, I  think there's other effective methods for dealing with salary
floor puffery....perhaps by ruling that one player's salary cannot exceed a
certain percentage of one's total payroll (say by limiting it to 15 or
20%).


                                                                                                                              
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In a message dated 2/9/2004 9:17:25 AM Eastern Standard Time, JHWinick
writes:

> Then may I encourage you to modify your vote and switch to option A from
option C.  That would be, by far, the easiest
> solution to strengthening the salary floor.

Actually, I think option A goes a long way to fixing the problem without
making any floor adjustments, although it certainly would not preclude an
adjustment to the floor.  With option A, a team can no longer put in a FAAB
bid and automatically know it will add the bid amount to its floor.  For
example, last year, my $35 bid on Kevin Witt would have yielded a $5
player, and my $51 bid on Brian Roberts would have given me a salary of
maybe $20 or so (don't remember the other bids).

By limiting the salary impact of FAAB players to a dollar more than the
under-bidder, option A makes it so no team can unilaterally puff up its
salary structure.  That was one of the main reasons Rich proposed it.

Mark










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