A bad team would likely have to pay a lot more to a good rookie to entice them and it would waste a lot of that additional cap flexibility. You’d end up with destination markets NY, LA, MIA consistently getting the best prospects because of the opportunity for better lifestyle and also raising brand endorsements. With a better talent pool to choose from at the start they’d likely end up with bird rights to more of the best players and would end up with the same teams having dynasties year after year.
You’d also run into issues with the length of their cap hike. If they spend the additional cap space for multiyear contracts and improve enough to lose that higher cap, they still have those contracts on the books and end up in the luxury tax for possibly multiple years and that’d likely force them to quickly dismantle the team. If you limited contracts to 1 year for the cap boost you’re not going to have many players wanting to sign a short term deal that if you end up doing well the team has to get rid of you to stay out of the luxury tax.
You might get a whole lot of player movement, but it wouldn’t let teams develop well and players would not like moving their families that much. It’s a very short term benefit in a long term game.
A bad team would likely have to pay a lot more to a good rookie to entice them and it would waste a lot of that additional cap flexibility. You’d end up with destination markets NY, LA, MIA consistently getting the best prospects because of the opportunity for better lifestyle and also raising brand endorsements. With a better talent pool to choose from at the start they’d likely end up with bird rights to more of the best players and would end up with the same teams having dynasties year after year.
You’d also run into issues with the length of their cap hike. If they spend the additional cap space for multiyear contracts and improve enough to lose that higher cap, they still have those contracts on the books and end up in the luxury tax for possibly multiple years and that’d likely force them to quickly dismantle the team. If you limited contracts to 1 year for the cap boost you’re not going to have many players wanting to sign a short term deal that if you end up doing well the team has to get rid of you to stay out of the luxury tax.
You might get a whole lot of player movement, but it wouldn’t let teams develop well and players would not like moving their families that much. It’s a very short term benefit in a long term game.