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Ugh.. Player drafts.. *shudders*

The draft system is genuinely great, it'd just never work in a sport that's played in more than one country

 

 

Drafting system is used in NHL, which is ice hockey league, and it's played in most of the northern europe, USA, Canada, Russia etc but it works because NHL is the only big professional league in north america, and biggest league in the world. It's where all the players want to play.

 

KHL also has drafting system but the league obviously doesn't have as big draw as the NHL when it comes to the players.

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GTFO.

A system that rewards the successful with medicority and the down right hopeless with potential.

Any system that incentives teams to stink the place out in order to progress has to be broken.

Having said all that - given America's aversion all things "lefty" it is a wonderful irony that they choose to adopt a socialist approach to team selection.

As opposed to our system of those with the money getting all the best players...

Draft system would never work, the college system that props it up would never work

The salary cap would work though, do t try and cap individuals cap a 25 man squad, won't stop Yaya getting his £250k a week but it will stop Sinclair rotting in their bench collecting £60k a week, which IMO is the bigger evil

GTFO.

A system that rewards the successful with medicority and the down right hopeless with potential.

Any system that incentives teams to stink the place out in order to progress has to be broken.

Having said all that - given America's aversion all things "lefty" it is a wonderful irony that they choose to adopt a socialist approach to team selection.

As opposed to our system of those with the money getting all the best players and not actually playing them

Draft system would never work, the college system that props it up would never work

The salary cap would work though, do t try and cap individuals cap a 25 man squad, won't stop Yaya getting his £250k a week but it will stop Sinclair rotting in their bench collecting £60k a week, which IMO is the bigger evil

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GTFO.

A system that rewards the successful with medicority and the down right hopeless with potential.

Any system that incentives teams to stink the place out in order to progress has to be broken.

Having said all that - given America's aversion all things "lefty" it is a wonderful irony that they choose to adopt a socialist approach to team selection.

As opposed to our system of those with the money getting all the best players...

Draft system would never work, the college system that props it up would never work

The salary cap would work though, do t try and cap individuals cap a 25 man squad, won't stop Yaya getting his £250k a week but it will stop Sinclair rotting in their bench collecting £60k a week, which IMO is the bigger evil

A truely American capitalist system right there........ ;)

 

I'd love a salary cap and agree 100% with capping a squad salary but I see a problem in implementation. How do you set it? % turnover means you essentially maintain the status quo, and setting an arbitrary value say..... £3m a week for the total squad could encourage smaller clubs to spend up to a limit beyond their means.

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IMO the draft system and the salary caps work because they keep the league, at least NHL, quite even. Of course it's not completely even but at least there's not two-three teams you know will be the only teams who can win the league (or stanley cup in this case), and can get any player they want.

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Salary cap won't work in football as it'd have to be applied to all different leagues and there's a vast difference in the budget between teams and between leagues, however, they can tighten up the 25 man squad thing. Remove some of the exceptions for it, make loaned out players count as part of the 25 man squad to stop the Chelseas from buying and loaning out hundreds of players and/or allow only home grown/academy players to be loaned out and there'd be a little more parity. 

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GTFO.

 

A system that rewards the successful with medicority and the down right hopeless with potential.

 

Any system that incentives teams to stink the place out in order to progress has to be broken.

 

Having said all that - given America's aversion all things "lefty" it is a wonderful irony that they choose to adopt a socialist approach to team selection.

 

 

You can imagine some poor kid working as hard as possible, in all weathers, to improve himself, to realise his dream of being a professional footballer.

 

Then, hailed as one of the brightest prospects of his generation, he's drafted to Small Heath :D

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Salary caps would have to be tightly regulated to stop teams like Man City giving players base contracts and then massive bonuses on top to supplement it.

 

In the leagues that use salary caps bonuses are counted against the cap and are usually quite small compared to the actual contracts. 

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You can imagine some poor kid working as hard as possible, in all weathers, to improve himself, to realise his dream of being a professional football.

 

Then, hailed as one of the brightest prospects of his generation, he's drafted to Small Heath :D

 

 

 

I used to dream of being a Mitre Ultimax when I was a kid but then I found the booze and ended up as a 99p beach football. Oh the regrets...

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You can imagine some poor kid working as hard as possible, in all weathers, to improve himself, to realise his dream of being a professional football.

 

Then, hailed as one of the brightest prospects of his generation, he's drafted to Small Heath :D

 

 

 

I used to dream of being a Mitre Ultimax when I was a kid but then I found the booze and ended up as a 99p beach football. Oh the regrets...

 

Hey....more fun has been had with a petrol station floater than a mitre ultimax ever gave anyone.

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You can imagine some poor kid working as hard as possible, in all weathers, to improve himself, to realise his dream of being a professional football.

 

Then, hailed as one of the brightest prospects of his generation, he's drafted to Small Heath :D

 

 

 

I used to dream of being a Mitre Ultimax when I was a kid but then I found the booze and ended up as a 99p beach football. Oh the regrets...

 

 

obviously that was deliberate, just to see if anyone was paying attention. ;)

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GTFO.

A system that rewards the successful with medicority and the down right hopeless with potential.

Any system that incentives teams to stink the place out in order to progress has to be broken.

Having said all that - given America's aversion all things "lefty" it is a wonderful irony that they choose to adopt a socialist approach to team selection.

As opposed to our system of those with the money getting all the best players...

Draft system would never work, the college system that props it up would never work

The salary cap would work though, do t try and cap individuals cap a 25 man squad, won't stop Yaya getting his £250k a week but it will stop Sinclair rotting in their bench collecting £60k a week, which IMO is th 

 

 

 

 

 

A squad salary cap in the PL would be interesting. Tom Brady took a big pay cut a couple of years ago to help the Patriots free up salary space and strengthen their squad and they've gone on to win a superbowl. Do you reckon Yaya would do the same?

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When I saw all these new posts I thought that there had been a new development or something. I've managed to convince myself that there's something in this story and we'll be taken over not long after the season has finished.

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salary cap wouldn't work either. Squad cap however. 

 

 

you have to register 23 premier league players. Limited to an annual salary of £50m per year. 

 

 

so if you want to pay someone £500k a week that's fine. But the others will be earning a pot noodle and a twix each week. 

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