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Originally Posted by Jay Random
If you're paying $4 million apiece for players in the bottom half of your roster, your cap is going to get screwed up.
If you give a player an offer sheet at fair market value, he has little incentive to sign it. You have to overpay in actual dollars to tempt him, and you have to seriously overpay for his current team not to match. Giving up a 2nd or 3rd in compensation is a relatively minor part of the equation. (Different if you're talking about a 1st+, but nobody is in this particular case.)
Offer sheets are rare because they are the worst of both worlds. You have to give up assets as if you were making a trade, and you have to overpay on the contract as if you were signing a free agent.
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So your argument is that if there is a RFA that is worth more than the compensation (worth two seconds for hypothetically) that you can get for a 2nd by offering a 3 million dollar contract to when the team they originally were with can only afford 1.8 million, that the 1.2 million delta is not worth getting a young asset at below market value because the asset may cost 1.2 million more than it may be worth? I suspect teams with a bunch of cap space don’t really care about the 1.2 million bucks.