What is the Best System to Control Player Movement and Economics?

[ChiefsCountry]

Magic
Jerry West
Elgin Baylor
Worthy

Thats not a bad list. The early 90s Lakers sucked but they drafted pretty well which led to trades later down the list to build the championship teams. Eddie Jones, Nick Van Exel, Elden Campbell, Vlade Divac. And if you look the trade down effect getting Chris Paul would have basically been just from the Shaq trade to Miami. Odom, Butler, and Grant. Butler was shipped off for Kwame Brown, who got them Gasol. Then Gasol and Odom for Paul.

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Originally Posted by ChiefsCountry

Magic
Jerry West
Elgin Baylor
Worthy

Thats not a bad list. The early 90s Lakers sucked but they drafted pretty well which led to trades later down the list to build the championship teams. Eddie Jones, Nick Van Exel, Elden Campbell, Vlade Divac. And if you look the trade down effect getting Chris Paul would have basically been just from the Shaq trade to Miami. Odom, Butler, and Grant. Butler was shipped off for Kwame Brown, who got them Gasol. Then Gasol and Odom for Paul.

Elden Campbell was not very good, and Van Exel and Jones were never more than high profile players on marquee teams who would be role players on good ones. It's hard to give them credit for "drafting" when they are spinning off FA players (Shaq) for traded players (Odom and Butler) for more traded players (Kwame) for more traded players (Gasol).

[whoman69]

The NFL has the most competitive system but wouldn't work for other leagues because their money is guarenteed which the players won't give up. Best way to fix baseball is to not only just split the national TV revenue, but local revenue as well. This would make a more level playing field in the NFL and NBA as well. The Yankees can complain about paying a tax and having the other clubs not spend it on talent all they want. Let's say the Pirates put all the tax money into obtaining talent. They're still $30 million below the league average and that is only about a third of what the Yankees spend. What good would it do? You split the local revenues and the Yankees still have more than anyone else, but that levels the playing field. The players union probably won't like that either because they like the big markets pushing up a higher value for everyone.