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From: idorux
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Date: 9/16/2009 3:11:17 PM
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After reading this in Season 10 news:
Player skills will continue to develop normally, but each offseason the players union will scale salaries to match the total revenue available for them to distribute. Those who have been using salary as a proxy for overall skill should be warned that this relationship will be changing

I was wondering if for 18 year olds (draft picks) if you can still rely on the salary to determine how good a player is. Also if salary has anything to do with potential. Sometimes I find it mystifying how one player with certain skill values is rated salary wise lower than another at the same position. Thanks for your insight

From: idorux

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111740.3 in reply to 111740.2
Date: 9/16/2009 7:30:09 PM
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Thank you for your reply - I have been using your calculator program to make my decisions which led me to the question I asked. BTW - thank you very much for making your observations public. When I look at the transfer list and the player skills I find it difficult to discern what drives the salary component - something you have spent a lot of time doing. For example - what skills the BB's think a point guard should have optimally is not something I can readily understand from my own experience playing and evaluating basketball. In the point guard example it is obvious to me that od, handling, and passing should be the most important skills, but there are many secondary skills that would be very useful like js and jr and perhaps driving or rebounding (or not ?). Anyway it is fun to try and figure it out and I hope that the BB's would make salary more variable and less important in evaluating players.