With NOLA's extension on majesiu, I was happy for both sides. NOLA is a good, fun team, and maj is a fucking franchise player. But, that salary really bothered me. I knew it was cheap, as minimum deals would be expected to be, but wanted to see HOW cheap.
I went through the team budgets for every NSFL team and recorded only the players whose teams paid them MORE than Fyodorovich got paid. Note that I did NOT count DSFL salaries for send downs, only cap hits to the NSFL teams. Additionally, I was very generous, assuming that players used the options if they were too high or played them out if low. Even more, if a player got paid this year over the DSFL cap, I counted that year against the team even though the team gets no value this season. Again, I was extremely conservative.
I found 74 players whose average salaries exceeded the 2.0 million per year received by Fyodorovich. By itself, that means nothing. Maybe all 74 were better?
I then went through every roster page and found their current TPE. For comparison, Fyodorovich is at 521 and is an S7 player.
Results:
The average salary was 3.56 million per year for those 74 (178% of his pay). The average TPE was 532.8. This means that the average player getting paid more IS actually better, right? Yes. In fact, 39 of the 74 were better than Fyodorovich. Of course, that means 35 players, or basically 2 starting rosters worth of players, were worse than Maj and getting paid more. Bear in mind, this did not include OL.
However, it gets a LOT worse. Bear in mind that maj hasn't even STARTED his contract, and already he is is outclassing it. Next year will be even worse, as maj will be higher TPE, but 30 of the 39 players currently with more TPE will have regressed by the start of next season, and most won't catch him, either, as the average draft class of those being paid more is S4.7, over two seasons of head start. So he will actually be heavily underpaid in the FIRST year of his contract. Remember, though, that this is a 3 year deal.
I urge the head office to pursue the following goals.
1) Create more tiers for minimum salaries, perhaps a new tier every 100 TPE. The difference between a 200 TPE player and 500 TPE is worth more than 1 million per year.
2) Either add "charges" for multi-year deals, or implement some form of scaling pay. We know a highly active player will break the next tier over 3.5 seasons. Why allow an illegal salary just because it is grandfathered?
Note that neither NOLA nor majesiu have done anything immoral. I would have taken the EXACT same deal in his situation, and if I were a GM, I would have offered him the same yearly values. I only use it as an example because it is a recent signing for minimum with a player on pace to ridiculously exceed its value.
Thanks if you took the time to read this, and note that this isn't something I shat out in media, so please keep comments constructive.
I went through the team budgets for every NSFL team and recorded only the players whose teams paid them MORE than Fyodorovich got paid. Note that I did NOT count DSFL salaries for send downs, only cap hits to the NSFL teams. Additionally, I was very generous, assuming that players used the options if they were too high or played them out if low. Even more, if a player got paid this year over the DSFL cap, I counted that year against the team even though the team gets no value this season. Again, I was extremely conservative.
I found 74 players whose average salaries exceeded the 2.0 million per year received by Fyodorovich. By itself, that means nothing. Maybe all 74 were better?
I then went through every roster page and found their current TPE. For comparison, Fyodorovich is at 521 and is an S7 player.
Results:
The average salary was 3.56 million per year for those 74 (178% of his pay). The average TPE was 532.8. This means that the average player getting paid more IS actually better, right? Yes. In fact, 39 of the 74 were better than Fyodorovich. Of course, that means 35 players, or basically 2 starting rosters worth of players, were worse than Maj and getting paid more. Bear in mind, this did not include OL.
However, it gets a LOT worse. Bear in mind that maj hasn't even STARTED his contract, and already he is is outclassing it. Next year will be even worse, as maj will be higher TPE, but 30 of the 39 players currently with more TPE will have regressed by the start of next season, and most won't catch him, either, as the average draft class of those being paid more is S4.7, over two seasons of head start. So he will actually be heavily underpaid in the FIRST year of his contract. Remember, though, that this is a 3 year deal.
I urge the head office to pursue the following goals.
1) Create more tiers for minimum salaries, perhaps a new tier every 100 TPE. The difference between a 200 TPE player and 500 TPE is worth more than 1 million per year.
2) Either add "charges" for multi-year deals, or implement some form of scaling pay. We know a highly active player will break the next tier over 3.5 seasons. Why allow an illegal salary just because it is grandfathered?
Note that neither NOLA nor majesiu have done anything immoral. I would have taken the EXACT same deal in his situation, and if I were a GM, I would have offered him the same yearly values. I only use it as an example because it is a recent signing for minimum with a player on pace to ridiculously exceed its value.
Thanks if you took the time to read this, and note that this isn't something I shat out in media, so please keep comments constructive.