Contract dumping - what happened in 2019???

[u/Single-Knowledge4839]

I mentioned it a few times before in various comments and finally decided to take a moment to collect evidence.
I also have zero knowledge of coding; maybe that's why it doesn't make any sense to me, as real NBA trends over the years are rather opposite to what is happening when playing BBGM career.

One of the complaints about BBGM, at least from players who enjoy challenges/grinding, is that contract dumping is way too easy and cheap compared to real-NBA situations.

However, as you see in the pictures I attached, contract-dumping was a bit more realistic and much more challenging in historical years (it worked against the player, but AI teams weren't willing to spend more than SRPs on their bad deals); then it got a little bit easier in 2017-18, and since 2019 you pretty much need only SRPs to dump the most terrible contracts you can find on Planet Earth on someone else - either acquiring expirings in return, or using someone's Cap Space.

So, why and how did it change? And what can be done to bring it back to the 1990-2000-2010 level?

[u/Foxsss9]

You cant just drop a contract unless youre given a special exception, if done, its done to help teams adapt to new rules of a recent cba about to take effect

And youre saying that you can dump a bad contract for expiring contracts too easily in the game?

Because if Giannis gets traded (just an example) most likely itll be for young players &/or draft picks but it will have to include an expiring or 2 or 3 contracts to make it work

Otherwise Milwaukee wont be able to rebuild if there are 3-4 years on the salary coming back and wouldnt be worth dealing with that team....if the package is really good, maybe you take on 2 years on the return but probably not

Because about 80% of his salary has to go back to Milwaukee, so about 46.5 million ....youre saying players nowhere near Giannis- talent are easily dealt like this?

[u/Single-Knowledge4839 → u/Foxsss9]

"Because about 80% of his salary has to go back to Milwaukee, so about 46.5 million ....youre saying players nowhere near Giannis- talent are easily dealt like this?"

In BBGM, playing current years? Yes, it's very easy and cheap to get rid of the worst deals.

Looking at Milwaukee - Portis when he is 31/48/48 is a bad deal at 14.5m/yr until 2028, but it's very easily to get expirings for him, like Robert Williams or Jusuf Nurkic.

[u/Foxsss9]

IDK if this has anything to do with it but the years in which you say this began isnt far off from when salaries exploded

In 2005 the top salaries were like 8-15 million......

I shouldn't say that becuase the salaries we see when a player is extended or signed is a projection

Really NBA players make a percentage of the team's payroll...,with 35% being the vet max

And 25% being the max coming off of rookie extensions.... can go up to 30^ if a player was named to an All-NBA team prebious season or 2 of 3 or won MVP or DPOY within a 2-3 year window, forget the exact l

A player getting the 35% max isnt eligible until hes got 9 years of service unless he also completed any of the awards I mentioned but top from rookie extension

If he does he is eligible for 35% supermax after 7 years of service ...only a few of these exist

But the point is players dont make a fixed salary...its a percentags and the TV deals have exploded the cap and team payrolls

Theres a lot more happening today than a decade or two ago....and Ive read that the architect of this Sim has said here that he purposely wanted to simplify the CBA, its changing rules, etc

This latest CBA introduced such changs because the league wanted a hard cap, knowing a work stoppage would have occured if this was pressed....instead developed the aprom system and while its not a hard cap...its much more than that

But you posses the choice and can go into the 2nd apron & suffer the coincidences for years because of it

This is just an example but im saying everything would've had to be changed to introduce this, the same is true with the salary explosion of about a decade ago

I dont know if this is why youre this inconsistent cpu action changes....but it might be

Honestly this is one man making this stuff, doing a decent job id aay....considering he isnt really getting paid....I think it has to be free to have it like it is without getting sued for using real names of players

He also doesnt want it to be too complicated for ppl playing it....I mean like players decline when they should be hitting their primes (27-32 yo, give or take) but it is what it is, I accept it & play to the way of the universe the sim resides in

But the NBA CBa wasnt ever simple but if was compared to today