Well Im not really good at math and maybe there could be any smooth system for this. I had in school big problems with this, so were lucky to promote into another year. Well, once wasnt so lucky.
I would like to see that if you want to hire 500k center for a 5 years in his 27y, he will demand 250k salary. If he will be 29y old, he will demand 100k.
If that will be 150k point guard, he will go in his 27y for 75k and in his 29y for 50k.
Well, depends on that when are players losing theirs skills. Im assuming this in the way that you can expect 1/3 fall in theirs 32 (which is probably too much fall). The point is do it somehow - so will be most efficient to hire a guy who will end his career in your club and possibly can be sold for just a few bucks afterward. However even that way if you buy a freshly developed player in 25-27, you will pay for his wage more, but at the end of the contract (28-30) can be still sold for a great money, because he would demand very small piece of budget from his next owner (or from you, if contract will be prolonged).
Thats the way Im thinking, but there occurs now a stranger problem with very high payed players. Because if the salary reduction would be linear, it would mean that the most effective strategy for a contract singing would be only high-demand monsters. That is not good, because there have to be adequate motivation for singing Point Guards as well as Centers, multiskills as well as monsters (well, they can be still kind of tight), youngers as well as oldies. Simply this solution have to solve problem with high-demanded players, but have to offer something special for other players as well.
I think that player which is getting a lot of money, is used to have any service, sometimes you have to buy him a car or build a house as a bonus. These people are very strange, because once are getting most, they have aswell best aditional demands.
To compensate bigger discount on highly payed players I therefore propose this.
We have here 150k Point Guard which will be signed for 75k. The difference is 75k
We have here 500k Center which will be signed for 250k. The difference is 250k
75k x 14(season) x 5(contract) = 5,25M
250k x 14(season) x 5(contract) = 17,5M
Well, I dont think that there would be a team which would get most efficiency from the point that would hire 5 monsters. Noone has such a budget. On the other side will be necessary to pay any singing fee for signing a contract. So the discount will be compensated.
I think that 1/8 is good for imagination.
So PG with 5,25M discount would demand 656k payment to sign a contract. C with 17,5M discount would demand 2,18M to sign a contract.
The fee bonus are the money which you have to give to the player at once, therefore it compensates the discount even if it is done backwards (bigger discount less you pay ("only" 2,18M from 17,5M), because still - these are the money which you cannot reinvest, there are not at disposal from that moment.
All numbers can be different (Im not sure if 1st league team can afford player for 250k p/w and so on), but thats the way and the reasoning, I can imagine how this would work.
Last edited by aigidios at 10/3/2010 10:01:44 AM