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Originally Posted by Bingo
I wonder if they just instituted 20 40 and 60 game points for a general revenue indication that they could give the money back sooner with the final cheque being much less than the previous three.
If gate receipts are up in mid November, they put in a formula that returns x to the players. Trend continues into January and they do the same. Mid March gets them another one as the trend hasn't been lost.
Then it's just peanuts at the end either way.
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That's just treating the symptom and not the disease.
I think the better solution would be lowering the amount of escrow removed down to a significantly smaller % and fixing the issues that are making it high.
LTIR Exemption: Get rid of it. No more getting to exceed the cap because you have an "allergy for your equipment".
Floor - Midpoint - Ceiling: Install a luxury tax that dings teams who pay in the upper half/third of the range. Proceeds go to the bottom 10 teams with the lowest revenue.
Contract $ variance: Get rid of it, your salary is your cap hit, your cap hit is your salary.
Escalator: Get rid of it.