Economy

[fauxcreative]

There's also a reason for the 2022-2023 cap figures being so high >> Nobody's resigned their free agents yet (or at least most of us haven't).

The following players are eligible for extensions but haven't had ones agreed to yet: Huerter, Boucher, MPJ, Steph, Jrue, Miles B, LeBron, Lowry, Dillon, Gordon, Ibaka, Jonas, Smart, Richaun, PG-13, Lavine, Ayton, Mikal B, Time Lord, Jaren Jax, Powell, TJ Warren, Sexton, Dinwiddie.

If the majority of those players get signed to extensions, as they should, that'll eat up a TON of the existing cap for the 2022-2023 season. Obviously guys like Huerter, Bridges x2, etc. can't be signed to extension b/c FanTrax's "Score" primarily focuses on "Total Stats" instead of "Per-Game Stats", but the majority of those guys will get new deals.

The fact that soooo many players on the list above are LIKELY to be re-signed is the major area I'd focus on. The shifts in contract ranges will probably help a little, but I would estimate it'll do very little to prevent guys from resigning their star/elite-level assets b/c (a) the cost of losing them is too great, and (b) the salary structure for extensions isn't prohibitive enough, which makes the decision easy.

For an extension on PG-13 for example, his best ranking of the last 2YR is #29, which means he'll get a 22M extension (the ranking is the same as 80% of 27.5). That's a discount compared to the 27.5M we set him up with either as part of the startup or on a short-2YR extension (can't remember what OKC did there). But that's not a decision really. You just sign him to that extension. Comparatively, if you were "forced" to give him a raise instead, you'd be forced to think about it, as he'd be due an extension 33M if you forced teams to give players 20% raises if their Score/Extension ranking is less than what they make currently.

Basically, the extension setup right now is what you plan for largely. You re-sign your major assets and then figure the rest out. It's why you see guys like Jae'Sean Tate getting 24M in free agency, or Mike Conley getting 40M+ at age 33. There's just very little out there of substance b/c everybody re-signs their good players. I think that'll be the case regardless of the contract deal bumps you're describing above. It'll just mean the churn on the bottom half of your roster is a little higher. People will still re-sign their stars/good players because they can't lose them and there's little punishment cash-wise to keeping them.

[KG3]

I have a crazy idea. What if the league gets rid of extensions, and just make all the players FA after their contracts ends? Rookies can still be RFA.

 And what if a team has the possibility to extend only one player each year after his last contract year?

Think we did that in cross court dynasty and it worked well. Only allowing 1 extension per year leads to people being more careful and more robust FA markets

[renatoperu]

What was the final ruling on this discussion?

[Laimbeer40]

The first post is happening as written and was never up for debate. Nothing else discussed in the following posts was finalized.