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Originally Posted by Fire
The only change they really need to make is limit the length of contracts to 6 years if signed by your own team or 5 years otherwise. Given out 8 year deals too often turns out bad for teams. Which is not good for fans if you happen to cheer for one of those teams.
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This. Long deals also make it easier to circumvent the cap by players conveniently retiring.
A sophomore limit is to me a bad idea.
I'm not even a huge fan of the ELC limit. Players deserve to get paid according to value, not age. The only real upside is that it helps teams not overpay for kids at too young an age.
Another issue with the ELC is that it's starting to limit the salaries of veterans. When you have to compete with value-for-money with players that can not be paid more than X amount, there's a lot of pressure to set your own salary at or below X.
With a sophomore limit a lot more players would be affected by this.