Quote:
Originally Posted by Enoch Root
I don't think this is the issue - veteran help is valuable, and I suspect will continue to be coveted by contending teams, as it always has.
What changed in the last few years was the value of cap space, and the realization that a veteran player on full salary shouldn't be valued as highly - not because the player isn't valuable, but because cap space had gotten to such a premium, and so many teams were tight to the cap. This was exacerbated by Covid and the cap not going up much, over a 3 or 4 year period.
However, the pendulum tends to swing back and forth on these sorts of things, and I wouldn't be surprised if, over the next few years, the cost of veteran players starts to inch back upward again, with respect to picks, as the cap rises at a faster and steadier rate.
tl/dr: supply and demand
|
Probably all true. Nothing is ever static. This past year I was very surprised there weren’t more moves. We heard about the weak draft. The supply on players was lacking. It was all a recipe for deals. But they overall didn’t transpire, probably for the aforementioned reasons you mentioned.