I thought this may be an interesting discussion point and would like to hear your thoughts.
It drives me nuts sometimes with peoples opinions about "what a player is worth" and "we wont get into a bidding war" etc. Personally I don't care what Junior Paulo (using him as an example only) gets because what's more relevant is how much of the salary cap he takes up.
The salary cap is ever growing so I think when you look at a top 25 I would prefer to know we are offering him 7% of our salary cap etc. I just cant understand why they don't report things this way, its way more relevant.
If people reported this way it would make heaps more sense. Junior Paulo being offered 250k 3 years ago as a quality up and coming prop like now is cheap these days. Money changes, salary cap percentages doesn't.
Another example is if Kieran Foran is on 18% of our salary cap for example, it'd be easier to understand the "balance" better. For example Ryan Morgan isn't very popular but for a decent back up and only 2.5% of our top 25 cap he is great. When you hear "oh 280k is WAY too much" its totally misleading. With a new 7mil cap the percentage may be tiny...
Also, it would give you much better insight into balance of a squad. If you have a heap of forwards on 5-6% and your team decides to splurge 16% on a SBW its easier to understand.
I just feel the reporting everyone does of the cash offered is stupid, it really means nothing, what matters is how much of our cap they are eating up!!
Further to this, I think its a much easier way to balance your squad. For example a top ball playing fullback may be worth 11-15% of your cap but a winger you might only allow 5-9%. Understand position and cap values doesn't really change unless the game is played differently, cash is constantly changing.
Call me crazy, but if I worked at the NRL or Parramatta that's how I'd be running it.
Make sense?
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I think you have missed my point completely.
But fans like to compare player salaries to how much they make themselves, which is why they can't comprehend a player earning six figures a year while not even part of the top 17. They don't get that the player is taking less than 2% of the cap, or that the average top 25 player is necessarily taking 4% of the cap.
And here's a question: if the average player is on 4% of the cap, and the lowest paid top 25 player is on just over 1%, how much is the best player in the world worth? 10%? 20%? More?
I don't think a club has ever publicly stated what a player is on whether it be a percentage or money and the NRL doesn't publicise what players are on so we only have to go off speculation and media reports so we never truly know how much a player is on against the cap. The media writes for their audience so if a sports journo in the DT all of a sudden started publishing sentences like "Junior Paulo is on 8% of the Eels salary cap across 3 years" there would be heaps of people who would go "Well, how much money is that? Why can't they just tell us how much he's on instead of making it a puzzle for us?". Do you know how much the salary cap is next year and beyond? I wouldn't know and it'd take a while to look up. I like the idea of publishing it as a percentage but I don't see it as being worth it for the journos to do so.
Actually you can simply go here to check out the salary cap for this season: http://www.nrl.com/nrlhq/referencecentre/salarycap/tabid/10434/defa...
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