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Percentage
of Revenues Devoted to Salary Cap
The most
recent CBA had the players receiving 60% of various revenue streams that the NFL
receives. The owners voided the current CBA due to that percentage being
too high. Obviously, no new agreement is going to be able to include that
figure (or a higher one) else they wouldn't have risked the unrest they created
by voiding the CBA. Also quite obviously, the players aren't happy with a
reduction of any kind. That is the crux of the issue with the two sides
even beginning to negotiate a new CBA. One side needs a better deal, the
other wants proof (never mind that teams spent less on purpose even though they
didn't want to in order to remain profitable, and also, never mind that one team
is completely open to all (the Green Bay Packers, a publicly owned team) and
also never mind that it is in the best interest of everyone on both sides to
keep the league profitable for everyone involved). I therefore recommend
the following: pay the players 62% of those same revenue streams... MINUS
the national unemployment rate from the end of the 4th calendar quarter
(December) just prior to the end of the NFL year (first week of March).
When the economy is exceptionally bad, that'll be 62% less 10% unemployment or
52%... and when the economy is golden, that'll be 62% less 2.4% unemployment or
59.6% (or thereabouts). Allow the economy to determine the salary cap each
year as the economy dictates the profit potential for the owners. Besides,
with more revenue with future TV contracts and a reduced rookie contract plan
(see below) there will be more salary cap available to the veterans then ever
before... more then enough to make up for the reduction in the shared revenue in
bad economic years.
Percentage of Revenues 17 Game Season Restricted Free Agency Rookie Pay Scale
17 Game Season
The players (of course) want less
working days and to stay at 16 games per season. The owners (of course)
want to move up to 18 games a season but are willing to go down to 2 preseason
games. The obvious compromise is 17 regular season games, but how do you
handle that number with an equal number of home and away games per team?
My solution is this: reduce the preseason games to 2 (or 3 if you can convince
the players it's worth their while) and add a game to the regular season along
with an additional bye week. The "extra" regular season game
would be played on a neutral venue, such as in Canada, Great Britain, Germany,
Spain, Mexico, etc. All teams would have 8 home games in the regular
season, 8 away games within the USA, and every team would play one game (that
counts) outside of the USA. This plus 2 bye weeks and 2 preseason games
adds up to 21 weeks (or 3 preseason games for 22 weeks if all can agree to it)
of televised games, currently it's 21 weeks (1 bye week, 4 preseason games, 16
regular season games). It should increase the international
attraction to the sport, reduce the number of meaningless games, and provide for
more television revenues. I would also suggest adding some Tuesday night
games to the schedule... with any teams playing Tuesday getting the following
Sunday off as their bye week. I would also suggest any Thursday game team
receive the previous Sunday off as one of their bye weeks. Regardless of
the final total number of regular season games I recommend the league move to 2
bye weeks and adding some Tuesday night games. In addition to the bye
weeks, the league should add an Injured Reserve designation that is 6 weeks long
to their options, the same rules as PUP but that would apply to any in season
training or game day injury. One more change I would make, increase the
practice squad to 12 players from the current 8, the current 53 players on the
roster to 55, and the current active on game day players to 47 from 45.
Percentage of Revenues 17 Game Season Restricted Free Agency Rookie Pay Scale
Restricted Free Agency
Further below is the new Rookie
Pay Scale which consists of the entire draft being 3 year contracts. This
RFA plan is based on the idea that unrestricted free agency starts after 4
years, therefore every draft pick will be subject to RFA in year 4. To
further encourage teams to sign their valuable young players to long term
contracts the teams may use each of these RFA tags once per year, and all are
guaranteed unless a new contract is agreed to that replaces the tag.
Franchise Tag (2 first round picks) (the same as before)
1st and 2nd round picks = 90% of Franchise Tag or $3,090,000 or 110% of previous
years' pay, whichever is highest.
1st and 3rd round picks = 80% of Franchise Tag or $2,792,000 or 110% of previous
years' pay, whichever is highest.
1st and 4th round picks = 70% of Franchise Tag or $2,495,000 or 110% of previous
years' pay, whichever is highest.
$2,198,000 for 1st round pick
$1,545,000 for a 2nd round pick
$1,010,000 for original draft position
Can only use one of each tag in a season, can only use the 6 lower tags for RFA
(4th year players), the Franchise tag can be used on any player. All tags are
guaranteed (unless a new contract is signed instead).
Percentage of Revenues 17 Game Season Restricted Free Agency Rookie Pay Scale
Rookie Pay Scale
The premise of this plan is to use the previous years' average salary cap as
the basis for the yearly roster bonus pay. The average positional cap
value is multiplied by a percentage
based on draft slot. The total roster bonus would be the same
for each year of the contract with minimum wage being the salary. All
contracts would be for 3 years. New RFA rules would apply for year
4. Below is the information used and an example. The
actual contract column information was acquired from http://www.walterfootball.com/forum/showthread.php?18052-2010-Draft-Signings
The plan takes into account that middle round draft picks play for too little,
that the top 10 contracts are unrealistically high, that the draft busts are
sapping too much money from the team veteran players, that teams have no
incentive for signing young players to longer term contracts, and that veterans
should have a larger portion of the pie (the salary cap pie). Please note
there is a NLTBE bonus for those making the probowl during their 3 year contract
as well as NLTBE bonuses based on playing time (for those exceptionally gifted
draft picks who apply themselves to the sport and receive playing time in
response).
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Percentage of Revenues 17 Game Season Restricted Free Agency Rookie Pay Scale
Last Updated on 1/29/11
By NetRat www.thenetrat.com
Original Rookie Contract and RFA Ideas by LionHawkEye