Sentences with phrase «hard salary cap»

This is the sporting equivalent of a hard salary cap.

In American sports, there are no dangers to relegation and no change in the composition of the league from year to year, something that makes long term revenue sharing contracts and a hard salary cap possible.

Implementing a hard salary cap that would also get rid of the luxury tax will increase competitive balance by decreasing the price of talent, making it more affordable for the teams at the bottom end of the salary pool.

HARD SALARY CAP: The current soft cap and luxury tax combination that the NBA uses has, in part, led to the lack of competitive balance in the league.

The following graph shows the effect of revenue sharing when a hard salary cap is in place.

It is the belief of the owners that the best way to counter the losses incurred by the league is to propose changes to the current CBA that include: the institution of a hard salary cap with incentive - based salaries that also includes a salary floor, elimination of free - agent exceptions, raised age limits for players to enter the draft, revenue sharing among all NBA teams, and as a last resort, relocation or contraction of teams in the league.

The payroll of the large market teams will surely fall with a hard salary cap in place, and the effect on the small market payroll is unknown - the lesser price of talent means they could potentially buy more talent, raising their payroll.

Salary Floor: With the hard salary cap and incentive based contracts, there should also be a salary floor.

REVENUE SHARING: Increased revenue sharing from monies generated from television deals and gate receipts, among other things, would also help teams to be more competitive when combined with the proposed hard salary cap to be put in place.

«The alternative to the escrow tax was to put in a hard salary cap, like the NFL's, but the players were never willing to agree to that.»

The owners are seeking a hard salary cap that would prevent the big - spending teams from investing in an extra star or two at the cost of a luxury - tax penalty; in the future, budgets will be tighter, and talent may be scarcer.

Not exact matches

It's just hard to swallow the idea that there's another walking risk tying up more of that precious salary cap room.

Even with the caveat that Lebron is probably the greatest all around player on the planet right now and makes any team an instant playoff team and any playoff team an instant Championship Contender, I give signing any FA this year a hard pass including Lebron, unless you can get George on a reasonable, team friendly deal that will help with fitting the TtP core under the salary cap for the next 3 - 5 years.

It must be hard for a highly competitive player used to national team salaries to take a cut and be offered the severely limited pay that the NWSL salary caps allow.

They note that while the Christie administration has been promoting its own agenda for recruiting and developing effective teachers, its salary cap was making it harder for school boards to hire and keep experienced superintendents.

Imagine if you could build a mid-size or even a large - size firm where there was a hard cap on lawyer salaries (and I mean every single lawyer in the firm, without exception); a firm where lawyers were told walking in the door that they would never make more than $ 250,000.00 in salary per year.