Let's put the argument here. I and others think it's fundamentally pretty fucked that a few rich teams can spend hundreds of millions of dollars more than other teams, mostly ignoring the luxury tax. It's profoundly unfair to compete for the same prize with radically different resources.
I'd love some kind of hardish cap and a revenue floor.
And I'm going to reiterate a relatively minor change that I think could have a lot of positive downstream benefits.
Change the way you assign draft position. Don't give the best to the worst team. Give out picks based on distance from .500.
It removes the incentive to be terrible and replaces it with an incentive to be mediocre. It's not that hard to be mediocre these days, and a mediocre team is not far from the playoffs. Rebuilding wouldn't involve losing 100 games. bad teams would be trying to improve at the trade deadline, more players will stay with their home team longer, more free agents would go to a wider variety of teams.
I'd love some kind of hardish cap and a revenue floor.
And I'm going to reiterate a relatively minor change that I think could have a lot of positive downstream benefits.
Change the way you assign draft position. Don't give the best to the worst team. Give out picks based on distance from .500.
It removes the incentive to be terrible and replaces it with an incentive to be mediocre. It's not that hard to be mediocre these days, and a mediocre team is not far from the playoffs. Rebuilding wouldn't involve losing 100 games. bad teams would be trying to improve at the trade deadline, more players will stay with their home team longer, more free agents would go to a wider variety of teams.