Post by David - Cleveland on Sept 21, 2017 17:05:19 GMT -8
With the signing of Bryce Harper to his new deal within ABL, I made a decision on the amount offered as incentive.
The existing rule, when I took over and adapted/condensed the ABL rules, was a total of $2M for all incentives offered, but given the huge money offered to Harper and the relatively small reward for some attached incentives, I altered that to $2M "PER" incentive offered. That is different and sparked some discussion in the thread I posted about it here - ablootp.proboards.com/thread/365/harper-2018-contract-tweaks-based
One of my objectives is to keep the ABL Rules as SIMPLE as possible, for newcomers and veterans (most just glance at the rules until they run over one anyway). Some leagues have a BOOK of Rules - I avoid those leagues.
I am willing to listen to ideas about this and will propose a couple of options to get us started and see where it goes.
We should decide this BEFORE the off-season, and certainly the FA season, when a bunch of contracts will be signed (some at least involving incentives).
Harper's is a huge deal and I do agree that if someone offers MAX incentives on a very small contract it can both skew things in their favour and is rather unrealistic!
The existing rule, when I took over and adapted/condensed the ABL rules, was a total of $2M for all incentives offered, but given the huge money offered to Harper and the relatively small reward for some attached incentives, I altered that to $2M "PER" incentive offered. That is different and sparked some discussion in the thread I posted about it here - ablootp.proboards.com/thread/365/harper-2018-contract-tweaks-based
One of my objectives is to keep the ABL Rules as SIMPLE as possible, for newcomers and veterans (most just glance at the rules until they run over one anyway). Some leagues have a BOOK of Rules - I avoid those leagues.
I am willing to listen to ideas about this and will propose a couple of options to get us started and see where it goes.
We should decide this BEFORE the off-season, and certainly the FA season, when a bunch of contracts will be signed (some at least involving incentives).
Harper's is a huge deal and I do agree that if someone offers MAX incentives on a very small contract it can both skew things in their favour and is rather unrealistic!
