Second Round Pick Restricted Free Agency
Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2016 8:12 pm
Second round picks were traded for points last season, but this season and in many others they are an afterthought. One reason for this is that there are slim pickings that late, but a study (by kucoach I do believe) shows that a respectable porting of the League comes from second round picks. Another reason for this is that if you do strike gold in the second round (or bronze really), you only have a 2y deal and then they hit the open market.
The following proposal is intended to give a relative simply way to increase the value of the second round pick by addressing the contract length issue without disrupting the caps and rosters of people who'd rather not deal with them. The proposal is to add the potential of restricted free agency.
The proposal makes sense on paper, but maybe not in practice . . . without my second proposal, which is forthcoming.
1) Second round picks are handled just as they are now up to the end of the regular season of their second year. If they are waived, all the rest of this does not apply. If they are traded, the below applies.
2) At the end of the the regular season, the their team can exercise their virtual option (no need to change the game). If nothing is done, the player goes into UFA just like now, and none of the below applies. If the option is picked up, they are given two years at the salary of the 3rd and 4th year of the 15th pick in their draft (not the current one). The second year is a team option, just as if the player were the 15th pick in the draft.
3) At this point, they are treated as if they were a virtual 15th pick, including their RFA rights.
4) The virtual option can be exercised if you are in tax arrears, but not the RFA, just like normal. The logic is that 1st round picks have options that do not depend on the tax situation.
The short of it is . . . at the end of the second year, you can basically retroactively handle him as if he was the 15th pick in the draft.
In the NBA, second round picks can be given a variety of deals, and they can be made RFA's. This is a simplified version of what they do. This is in part what let to the weird Asik and Lin deals (not poison pill, that's something else).
Again, this is to reward people who make good second round picks rather than punishing them by taking their talent away while not devaluing late first round picks (they stay cheaper in late seasons, have smaller cap holds, and of course pick from a larger pool). Second round picks have the added flexibility of being waiveable early, which they already have.
Feel free to comment, propose tweaks.
And the second proposal is . . . the stash.
ETA: This can be implemented this season, but if it is, in the interest of impartiality, the Cavaliers will not partake this season if enough swing voters wish it. We have no second rounders on the roster now, and I'd be happy to trade or waive my pick if it went that way.
The following proposal is intended to give a relative simply way to increase the value of the second round pick by addressing the contract length issue without disrupting the caps and rosters of people who'd rather not deal with them. The proposal is to add the potential of restricted free agency.
The proposal makes sense on paper, but maybe not in practice . . . without my second proposal, which is forthcoming.
1) Second round picks are handled just as they are now up to the end of the regular season of their second year. If they are waived, all the rest of this does not apply. If they are traded, the below applies.
2) At the end of the the regular season, the their team can exercise their virtual option (no need to change the game). If nothing is done, the player goes into UFA just like now, and none of the below applies. If the option is picked up, they are given two years at the salary of the 3rd and 4th year of the 15th pick in their draft (not the current one). The second year is a team option, just as if the player were the 15th pick in the draft.
3) At this point, they are treated as if they were a virtual 15th pick, including their RFA rights.
4) The virtual option can be exercised if you are in tax arrears, but not the RFA, just like normal. The logic is that 1st round picks have options that do not depend on the tax situation.
The short of it is . . . at the end of the second year, you can basically retroactively handle him as if he was the 15th pick in the draft.
In the NBA, second round picks can be given a variety of deals, and they can be made RFA's. This is a simplified version of what they do. This is in part what let to the weird Asik and Lin deals (not poison pill, that's something else).
Again, this is to reward people who make good second round picks rather than punishing them by taking their talent away while not devaluing late first round picks (they stay cheaper in late seasons, have smaller cap holds, and of course pick from a larger pool). Second round picks have the added flexibility of being waiveable early, which they already have.
Feel free to comment, propose tweaks.
And the second proposal is . . . the stash.
ETA: This can be implemented this season, but if it is, in the interest of impartiality, the Cavaliers will not partake this season if enough swing voters wish it. We have no second rounders on the roster now, and I'd be happy to trade or waive my pick if it went that way.