08-13-2024, 06:25 AM
(08-13-2024, 12:25 AM)Thryleon link Wrote:was thinking about this scenario and have arrived at a horrific result thought process wise.
Why wouldn't you play kids?
Draftee contracts usually have a match bonus payment condition attached.
So why aren't we playing kids? The cap is close to being overloaded.
We might be playing broken senior players because of out salary cap composition.
Salary caps are not that tight and don't work that way.
Any club worth their salt will aim for match payments for 23 players over 24 rounds (or whatever we actually play) and put that aside for every season. Whats left is what you play players from as in their base and above base payments.
You go a step further and allocate a certain part to any of the following you implement as a club (each club does it differently)
- Top (3, 5 or) 10 B+F finishers bonus
- Matches played threshold bonuses (kids get 10 - 15 - 20 bonuses IIRC, same for others potentially if you wish)
- individual KPI targets (eg # goals or goal assists etc)
- AFL award bonuses (AA, brownlow, coleman, 22U22 teams etc)
You set aside whatever 'bonuses' you want to pay. You add that to what you set aside with your match payments.
Then you pay players from whats left.
If you make finals, the AFL allows gives you the extra $'s required to pay players for their time.
If you win the GF there is an extra million to allocate IIRC as well.
In short, there is no financial incentive to NOT play the kids.