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Originally Posted by transplant99
I do wonder if the whole strategy of shorter term deals that we are seeing more than ever isn't because of the shifting dynamics of who gets paid vs who used to get the bigger money.
The league is making the younger guys higher paid based, more so, on projections than past accomplishments. Whereas it used to be guys with a long track record of X-level of production and performance were, obviously, older than the guys who are getting the money now. More of a "known commodity" then vs what is expected to be thing.
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But if you're basing your strategy on projections, then short term deals don't make sense (from the teams perspective). If it's about projections, then the sensible strategy is to go long term and hope the player grows into the deal.
It used to be about leverage. Post ELC, the player basically had none. Then with an RFA contract, they don't have much. Then with a UFA contract, they have lots. And salaries rose along with player leverage.
But this new trend of big money, post ELC, and for shorter term deals like 5 years (thanks Dubas, you clown) or even 3 years, just ####s everything up. There is nowhere to go from here except either have a few stars get all the money (that has huge problems associated with it), or the market needs to correct this aberration.