Post by ex-BluesGM on Feb 14, 2006 10:49:00 GMT -5
I'm kinda down the middle on this. Overall salary caps suck and usually bring their sports down with them. Parody is all well and good but its to a ridiculous level in football., and even in the NHL where it's so far so good, is it really fair that teams which worked hard to build a good, solvent team over the past decade had to basically start from scratch. And I say that as a Ranger fan...no team was helped more on the ice then the Rangers by the cap.
Plus, in the NsHL were are not working with "real-life" budgets. Basically the top marketed teams only started with 8mil more then the bottom of the market teams. Now if we had the Rangers working with a 100mil budget while the Predators were working with a 25mil budget that may call for a cap. For myself I started out with a St.L teamt that had a crazy high payroll. I chose to let it out slowly to stay competetive, as a result I lost money in year one and then made money in year two while actually improving my teams performance on the ice. If you're creative and good and what you do you can make anything a winning situation. And I'm not patting myself on the back here either, cause I know I'm not the best GM in this league, and I know I've made financial blunders...but we learn and build from there.
The one and only I reason to do a cap, Jack touched on. The idea of the NsHL is to make the most realistic hockey experience. So I could see an arguement for trying to make the NsHL the same as the NHL...that's the only reason I could see to do a cap.
So I think this decision is more about where the BOD feels the league should head philosophically...not a question of which way makes for a better sim-experience...cause the experience right now is great!
Plus, in the NsHL were are not working with "real-life" budgets. Basically the top marketed teams only started with 8mil more then the bottom of the market teams. Now if we had the Rangers working with a 100mil budget while the Predators were working with a 25mil budget that may call for a cap. For myself I started out with a St.L teamt that had a crazy high payroll. I chose to let it out slowly to stay competetive, as a result I lost money in year one and then made money in year two while actually improving my teams performance on the ice. If you're creative and good and what you do you can make anything a winning situation. And I'm not patting myself on the back here either, cause I know I'm not the best GM in this league, and I know I've made financial blunders...but we learn and build from there.
The one and only I reason to do a cap, Jack touched on. The idea of the NsHL is to make the most realistic hockey experience. So I could see an arguement for trying to make the NsHL the same as the NHL...that's the only reason I could see to do a cap.
So I think this decision is more about where the BOD feels the league should head philosophically...not a question of which way makes for a better sim-experience...cause the experience right now is great!