Contract Extensions

[Admin]

There are a few ways we could handle this

1. Teams have 3 extension years to be used on 2 players, but can only use 2 years on 1 player. 1 year adds $2 to a players contract and 2 years adds an additional $1 so a total of $3 for a 2 year extension

2. Teams have a larger number of years like 5 to be used on 5 teams (people from Canton know this system), 1 year would cost $2, 2 years would cost $4 total, and 3 years would cost $5 total. Teams can only extend a player up to 3 years

3. 1 tag year, on a player with 0 years left, that adds $3 and teams can not tag the player the next year.

4. Other, give me suggestions

I feel like 1-2 would probably be the best options, but would likely limit the RFA bidding pools. 3 would be a good way to keep some player movement in the league

[Admin]

Any other ideas, tweaks to the 3 I have posted? If not I think these 3 will be the options I use in a poll to make this rule

[Arizona Cardinals (Chris)]

I'm cool with Option #1.

[New England Patriots (Brian)]

I'm partial to #3 in part because it'd increase the FA pool and also because I think it's more reflective of reality. It will force us to manage with the contracts we have, and chose 1 to keep.

[Seattle Seahawks (Justin)]

Being from Canton, idea #2 is the best. Giving a GM 5 years to decide each year is best for a league this size imo.

[Deleted]

Generally in contract extensions the salary becomes higher than it originally was. Like, maybe it should cost 150% of his highest salary year per season to extend him. That means if his highest payed year was... $3m.... then you would pay $4.5m per year on him after extending. Then you can have a maximum of however many years (3?) to extend him, and a maximum amount of players you CAN extend.

[Admin]

Apr 18, 2020 10:40:09 GMT -5 @cameron20 said:

Generally in contract extensions the salary becomes higher than it originally was. Like, maybe it should cost 150% of his highest salary year per season to extend him. That means if his highest payed year was... $3m.... then you would pay $4.5m per year on him after extending. Then you can have a maximum of however many years (3?) to extend him, and a maximum amount of players you CAN extend.

This isn't a bad idea, I just think I would go with one of the 3 I posted, mostly because I would like to avoid $.5 amounts on contracts unless people make drops, which is why I made the ideas the way I did.

[Deleted]

This system is new 2 me. I'm learning. I like 2 keep my tops players longer. I want the best option for that.