(05-25-2019 05:17 PM)dbackjon Wrote:  

(05-22-2019 03:25 PM)Wedge Wrote:  IMO it's time for our pro sports leagues to get rid of their player drafts and replace them with a pool or a cap for new signings. E.g., each team gets X million each year to sign free agents who have never before played in the league. Use the money to sign players out of HS, or college, or Europe or Australia, wherever. Convince the guys you want that your franchise is the best place for them to sign.

The best or wealthiest franchises couldn't sign every good player, couldn't even sign most of them, because they would be limited by the "rookies salary cap" like every other team.

Best of all, it would be the end of tanking, the end of the draft's rewarding of both intentional and unintentional incompetence.

Awful idea - the end of Pro Sports as we know it here - you will end up like European Soccer - leagues always dominated by one or two rich teams.

That wouldn't happen because there would still be a rookies salary cap. Each team would have the same amount of money each year to spend on rookies. Thus, it would not be like European soccer leagues in which each of the top 2 teams spends more each season on new players than the entire payroll of any of the other teams in the league.