Comments for Across All Sports http://acrossallsports.com Speak your mind about the sports world! Mon, 04 Jan 2010 04:04:10 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on The Curious Case of the Phoenix Coyotes by 2009-2010 NHL Mid-Season Report « Across All Sports http://acrossallsports.com/2009/12/28/the-curious-case-of-the-phoenix-coyotes/#comment-1320 2009-2010 NHL Mid-Season Report « Across All Sports Mon, 04 Jan 2010 04:04:10 +0000 http://acrossallsports.com/?p=789#comment-1320 [...] Surprise: This goes to the Coyotes again. I posted recently on how shocking Phoenix’s first half has been and it truly is amazing. They have by far the lowest payroll in hockey and their management is in [...] [...] Surprise: This goes to the Coyotes again. I posted recently on how shocking Phoenix’s first half has been and it truly is amazing. They have by far the lowest payroll in hockey and their management is in [...]

]]> Comment on Crazy NHL Contracts by Sami http://acrossallsports.com/2009/07/01/crazy-nhl-contracts/#comment-1318 Sami Sun, 20 Dec 2009 19:32:06 +0000 http://acrossallsports.com/?p=699#comment-1318 You're both missing the point here a bit (I realise that this post is months old but thought that I should post anyway). It doesn't lower the cap hit or create certainty with respect to the cap so long as the player is playing. The point, we can only assume, is that players who sign these long-term contracts are NOT going to be playing out the final years. Once they've retired, that cap hit comes off the books entirely!! Say that I'm 34 years old. I'm willing to play five more years and I want to be paid 30M for my services. The team, on the other hand, can't afford a 6M cap hit per year. Fine, sign me to a 10 year contract worth 40M. Pay me my 30M over the first five years of the contract, and 10M over the last five. This way, the cap hit is only 4M/year. When I retire after five years, the last five years of the contract no longer count against the cap... So I got my contract AND the team freed up 2M/year to spend on other players. Also, the reason that I decided to post in the first place, the NFL does have a salary cap, and it's a hard one like the NHL's (the NBA has a soft cap). You’re both missing the point here a bit (I realise that this post is months old but thought that I should post anyway). It doesn’t lower the cap hit or create certainty with respect to the cap so long as the player is playing. The point, we can only assume, is that players who sign these long-term contracts are NOT going to be playing out the final years. Once they’ve retired, that cap hit comes off the books entirely!!

Say that I’m 34 years old. I’m willing to play five more years and I want to be paid 30M for my services. The team, on the other hand, can’t afford a 6M cap hit per year. Fine, sign me to a 10 year contract worth 40M. Pay me my 30M over the first five years of the contract, and 10M over the last five. This way, the cap hit is only 4M/year. When I retire after five years, the last five years of the contract no longer count against the cap… So I got my contract AND the team freed up 2M/year to spend on other players.

Also, the reason that I decided to post in the first place, the NFL does have a salary cap, and it’s a hard one like the NHL’s (the NBA has a soft cap).

]]> Comment on Joe Torre’s Flaw: Bullpen Management by Joe http://acrossallsports.com/2009/06/19/joe-torres-flaw-bullpen-management/#comment-1310 Joe Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:52:31 +0000 http://acrossallsports.com/?p=648#comment-1310 How exactly did Tom Gordon cost the Yankees in the 2005 ALDS? How exactly did Tom Gordon cost the Yankees in the 2005 ALDS?

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