Training Discount for Sophomores
Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2015 3:52 pm
The thought just came to me as I was getting ready to put up the Point System Revamp proposal for further discussion, and I thought it warrants its own suggestion:
Example 1: Nazr Mohammed (Nets) played 1212 regular-season minutes and 145 playoff minutes (Total: 1357). Divide this by 180 and you get 7.53; drop the fraction, and that means he would have been eligible for a training at a cost of 33 points (7 point discount) instead of 40 this offseason.
Example 2: Ricky Davis (Hawks) played 1694 regular-season minutes and 6 playoff minutes (1700 total). Divide this by 180 and get 9.44; drop the fraction, and Ricky Davis would have been eligible for a training at a cost of 31 points (9 point discount) instead of 40 this offseason.
Example 3: Vince Carter (Grizzlies) played 2811 minutes last season and 0 playoff minutes. Divide this by 180 and you get 15.62; drop the fraction, and that means Vince would have been eligible for a training at a cost of 25 points (15 point discount) this past off-season.
I think this suggestion is an improvement on the mini-trainings suggestion - Vince played about as many minutes as it is possible to play and it amounts to a 15-point reward (about the level that we said mini-trainings represented). It also keeps people from over-playing rookies just to chase points of "free trainings" (since you aren't actually AWARDED points, there's less incentive to give extra playing time to a bad player... you have to pay out points improving said bad player to receive the benefit anyway). It also also doesn't punish teams overmuch when a player gets hurt (imagine if your guy played 59 games at 33 minutes per game and missed 23 games due to injury).
This still counts as one of the player's "maximum of three" trainings and replaces the "mini-training" proposal I submitted last season as part of the points revamp proposal.Paid-by-points offseason training for players who have just completed their rookie season are discounted by a number of points equal to the total regular season and playoff minutes that player played as a rookie divided by 180 (drop all fractions).
This discount may only be used in the off-season immediately following the player's rookie year (i.e., can't wait until All-Star Break, can't be saved for a later year).
Example 1: Nazr Mohammed (Nets) played 1212 regular-season minutes and 145 playoff minutes (Total: 1357). Divide this by 180 and you get 7.53; drop the fraction, and that means he would have been eligible for a training at a cost of 33 points (7 point discount) instead of 40 this offseason.
Example 2: Ricky Davis (Hawks) played 1694 regular-season minutes and 6 playoff minutes (1700 total). Divide this by 180 and get 9.44; drop the fraction, and Ricky Davis would have been eligible for a training at a cost of 31 points (9 point discount) instead of 40 this offseason.
Example 3: Vince Carter (Grizzlies) played 2811 minutes last season and 0 playoff minutes. Divide this by 180 and you get 15.62; drop the fraction, and that means Vince would have been eligible for a training at a cost of 25 points (15 point discount) this past off-season.
I think this suggestion is an improvement on the mini-trainings suggestion - Vince played about as many minutes as it is possible to play and it amounts to a 15-point reward (about the level that we said mini-trainings represented). It also keeps people from over-playing rookies just to chase points of "free trainings" (since you aren't actually AWARDED points, there's less incentive to give extra playing time to a bad player... you have to pay out points improving said bad player to receive the benefit anyway). It also also doesn't punish teams overmuch when a player gets hurt (imagine if your guy played 59 games at 33 minutes per game and missed 23 games due to injury).
