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[JHWinick at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/9/2004 10:07:39 AM Central Standard Time, 
SpringKerb at aol.com writes:
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.

I think C implicates lowering the cap (due to less FAAB inflation) rather 
than raising the floor.  As it is, we provide $40 more "headroom" with our cap 
($360 v. $260) than the downside flexibility we provide with our floor ($200 v. 
$260).

200 is actually a pretty tight floor already.  Take, for example, a team 
forced to dump when one or two stars are out for the year with injury or traded to 
the NL.  You could be at the floor already, without even dumping.  Then you 
can't do anything at all.  That would simply encourage owners to check out of 
the league completely for the year.  I'd much prefer to have someone active and 
dumping, than have them completely inactive because the rules have put them 
in a straight jacket.

Mark
Mark,

I respectfully disagree with you regarding the tightness of the floor.  If a 
player is out for the year with injury or traded to the NL, that player can 
remain on a team's active roster and will still count toward the salary floor.  
I honestly believe that an active roster of anything less than 200 would 
result in teams totally tanking for the season.  I think it is in everyone's best 
interest to discourage this practice.

As for the extra headroom in the salary cap, it was my original proposal to 
have the headroom match the floorroom, i.e. a $320 cap.  There was concern that 
this would be too restrictive given a $100 FAAB budget and a desire to 
encourage some level of trading, so we added a little more flexibility.

I believe that the $200-$360 range is a good one provided that we close the 
loopholes on asterisks and on escaping the floor with meaningless FAAB bids.  
The Ebay FAAB process is far from perfect, but it is the one with the least 
unintended consequences and is, by far, the easiest to administer.  Alternatives 
of the sort proposed by John Fruit are examples of ways to enhance the salary 
floor but at the expense of needlessly complicating the commissioner's life.

Jeff
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