Have details ever come out about limiting bonuses/frontloading/backloading of contracts?
Rich teams can backload deals as much as possible
A lot of players baked reduced compensation this season into their current deals as lockout protection, so most teams have a lower real $ to AAV ratio this year than normal.
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Originally Posted by ricardodw
Why does Seattle pay a 650 million expansion fee when they could buy Florida and Arizona and combine them for 610 M ?
Florida was worth $310 M and Arizona $300M BEFORE the shutdown.
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1. You always have to add a $150M+ relocation fee. Before getting to 32 teams, that number would probably have been even higher.
2. There is lots of skepticism about the $650M figure. The league/other owners have obvious reasons for wanting it reported that way. There's probably a round about way of justifying that number, but it's unlikely that Seattle cuts immediate/direct cheque(s) totalling $650M.