MatthewFlames
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What's wrong with play-off revenue being the reward is that if you've got a great team, and you're at the $64M cap and you don't make the playoffs you're loosing a ton of cash. If you make the first round and walk away with 5M along with other endorsements you might break even, but even then it's still an up-hill battle.
But isn't that just rewarding teams who took risk, salaried up and FAILED?
Shouldn't those teams pay for their failures? (although I do think that one season of failure leading to bankruptcy is too much... which in the present system it is.. unless you've got 40+ mils in the account)
So as a poor team I have to stay poor to support these teams competitiveness?
Because that's what I think I just read....
The reason why alot of teams are having issues selling is that not enough teams are buying... any team within the top 12 of the conference at the mid-point of the season should be fighting for a play-off spot... that's not going to happen if the risk/reward system isn't there for them. If you're not making the playoffs your best bet is to shed salary as fast as you can so that you can atleast break even.
LOL.
Okay - so the fact that there is no cash flow for 20 teams has nothing to do with it? Or the cap?
It think those two facts are far greater than the two teams who are shedding because they've got 62 million plus salaries and are facing bankruptcy because they may not make the playoffs (Blackhawks and Canes)....
And yes, the reason that these teams shed salary is the financial condition of the league now - one bad season when you're competing and have serious salary for any of the 20 teams in the bottom half of the cash flow dooms you to years of miserable existence where money is a bigger worry than talent.
I think your perspective is completely off on what a lot of this discussion is about. I think you have to increase the risk/reward scenario. I did it - I took a risk of adding salary and it worked - I made the playoffs for the first time, and did so 3 out of 4 years. The problem was that the revenue wasn't enough that the second season of missing the playoffs I was bankrupt again and the next season I was rewarded with an abysmally poor income (2 million less than the next team, as you've mentioned).... and here I am again.... the reward for being a Western Conference finalist was so poor in comparison to the achievement...
As Drew has pointed out - and I know Nick has been on the bandwagon for a long time about - you want solutions that promote better GM behavior - you don't want bail-outs - you want something more sustainable - which I think abolishing the endorsements and having higher in sim revenue (or even using a modified version of what you're proposing ) is better for everyone. Especially for the competitiveness of the league.
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