Equalisation - Solutions? Lets hear ya

[Membling]

36 round first past the post system.

Reward the higher seeded team if there are final

 

[Furn2]

A swans fan had a good idea for FAs In the other thread about this, where lower teams have less of the FA salary count in the cap.

So 1st has say 125% count and last has 75%. It could then scale back to the norm each year.

So say last signs a guy for $1mil a year.

First year 750k goes in the cap.

2nd year 833k

3rd year 916k

4th year and beyond 100%

The opposite happens for the top team. 1.25, 1.16, 1.08, 1mil.

Each team has a scaled discount or penalty depending on finishing position.

 

[Eddie Van Halen]

There's 18 teams.
Each team needs to play each other twice, so, it should be a 35 game season. Play more mid week games
Scrap the NAB cup, longer season, a couple of bye weeks thrown in, pay the players more, bigger salary cap, more players allowed on roster, more TV revenue, more revenue for clubs, bigger TV deals in the future.
It'll never be a truly fair competition until you have each team playing each other twice.

Not sure that's got anything to do with equalisation, but f&%k it, this is what needs to happen.

 

[velcrow]

With free agency having possibly the opposite affect of equalising the competition, what solutions do you think are viable to achieve this? Or is it just not possible? A supposed fair draft & salary cap has not done the job.

Would something like this help even things up quicker? Suppose the salary cap is $10,000,000.
The following years salary cap could be enforced with the following formula to add 100,000 to the cap for each position a club finishes from the premiership team. Bear in mind $10,000,000 is just a figure I used for this example.

1st - $10,000,000
2nd -$10,100,000
3rd - $10,200,000
4th - $10,300,000
5th - $10,400,000
6th - $10,500,000
7th - $10,600,000
8th - $10,700,000
9th - $10,800,000
10th - $10,900,000
11th - $11,000,000
12th - $11,100,000
13th - $11,200,000
14th - $11,300,000
15th - $11,400,000
16th - $11,500,000
17th - $11,600,000
18th - $11,700,000

To me it just isn't fair to give some teams more salary cap room than others but at least this way it is recompiled every year & teams wont have an advantage every year permanently. Bottom teams would have extra cash to lure top players & top clubs would have to be very clever with their limited cap to hang on to their elite players.

Thoughts?

What ideas do you have?

if a team jumped from 15th to 5th in a year they loose a million dollars in salary cap. what then trade out players and drop back to 15th the following year?

 

[Jcpdragonx]

The Greater AFL Giants are a problem. Too many talented, highly skilled players and they are all still early 20s. Should have them sacrifice future draft picks (3+ years from when they entered the comp) given how many draft concessions they had.

 

[Alexwce]

We could also remove the salary cap altogether.

Free agency is forcing good players to move to clubs for less pay.

Perhaps this would have some effect on the smaller clubs, but it may allow us to strengthen already strong areas.

Merge Gold Coast with Brisbane. Gold Coast Lions
Move North Melbourne to Tasmania.
Merge Western Bulldogs with St. Kilda


Back to the normal 16 team competition. But instead we’ve added a Tasmanian team and a Western Sydney team as should have been the case the first time.

And you make Victoria a more competitive environment.

Alternatively you could disband everything in QLD and build a third team in WA instead.

 

[pinot]

Play 34 games including mid week games expand the lists a little (maybe 50 players to primary list) - big competitions have squad rotations the AFL does not. Expose more talent through squad rotations

 

[Alexwce]

Play 34 games including mid week games expand the lists a little (maybe 50 players to primary list) - big competitions have squad rotations the AFL does not. Expose more talent through squad rotations

Perhaps when Australia reaches a population of 35 million we can revisit this.

 

[jackess]

Play 34 games including mid week games expand the lists a little (maybe 50 players to primary list) - big competitions have squad rotations the AFL does not. Expose more talent through squad rotations

Or reduce it to 10 teams, 2 in each state and play 20 games/season with bigger playing lists.

 

[pinot]

Perhaps when Australia reaches a population of 35 million we can revisit this.

Incorrect - mature age players do not have to wait to get on senior lists they could have been developing and getting games way earlier than they have been.

 

[Alexwce]

Incorrect - mature age players do not have to wait to get on senior lists they could have been developing and getting games way earlier than they have been.

As long as we have players like Zac Dawson and three quarters of this list: http://www.lions.com.au/season/players/senior-players are getting a game there is not a large enough talent pool.
We will no longer see great teams like the Hawks of today or the Cats of yesteryear. The Giants are an excuse given the AFL handed them a dream team.
Instead we will see lists clogged with guys who couldn’t get a kick in the C grade 2s.

 

[Turboman1994]

Drop the salary floor back to 90% have a fixture that does a three year rotation on double ups are teams 1-6 1 year 7-12 year 2 13-17 year 3 ect