2025-2026 offseason thread

Untangling the current system will be hard but you can give teams 3-5 years to get under cap while still paying tax penalties until they do. And 1-2 years for teams to get over the floor.
 
bravesfanMatt said:
The owners need to also concede the whole players control and arb crap. Guys should sign contracts when drafted. Or something likethat
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Certainly 6 yrs of control is a bit much. Especially for college drafted players. Many of them won't be eligible for their first FA contract until after they turn 30, which is ridiculous.

Also, I think arbitration eligibility should be forfeited if a player is released from the team that drafted/signed them. Someone like Grant Holmes should not be forced to have 6 years of team control and to go through arbitration. He's 29 and on his 3rd team. If he were a FA right now, he wouldn't get a huge deal or anything, but he would absolutely make more than the league minimum he's currently getting paid.
 
If there’s really a demand for a salary cap, QO penalties and team control are big trade chips to work from. At least 27 teams should be in favor of a cap, and every player should be in favor of removing QO penalties and some team control.

The issue has always been that so many of the current players have finished their team control years that an improvement there wouldn’t impact them.
 
Slippyjms said:
Also make it so that while teams can defer money a team can only reduce their luxury tax calculation by 20 million a year using deferrals. All other deferred money will be calculated as if it was paid on standard per year pay schedule.
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Don't even let them do that much. Let them defer money if it makes sense for the player or for current cash flow, but make the AAV of the contract count towards whatever luxury tax or cap structure they settle upon in negotiations.
 
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