OT: New NFL wage scale.
Here is the new NFL league minimums as I read through the contract. Thought maybe some would like to see it.
Year 0 is the rookie year.
Year |
2011 |
2012 |
2013 |
2014 |
0 |
375k |
390k |
405k |
420k |
1 |
450k |
465k |
480k |
495k |
2 |
525k |
540k |
555k |
570k |
3 |
600k |
615k |
630k |
645k |
4-6 |
685k |
700k |
715k |
730k |
7-9 |
810k |
825k |
840k |
855k |
10+ |
910k |
925k |
940k |
955k |
Edit: Added the 3 previous years scale
Year |
2008 |
2009 |
2010 |
0 |
295k |
310k |
325k |
1 |
370k |
385k |
400k |
2 |
445k |
460k |
475k |
3 |
520k |
535k |
550k |
4-6 |
605k |
620k |
635k |
7-9 |
730k |
745k |
760k |
10+ |
830k |
845k |
860k |
Can someone explain how the NFL will be run differently post-strike? in essence, what did the holdout change? Aside from this minimum scale and rookie salaries.
The owners wanted more $$, so they changed the revenue split so that the owners get more $$.
The players got better healthcare (lifetime benefits, I believe it used to be only 5 years after you retire) and other safety-related changes (time off, practice hours, no more 2-a-days in pads)
A bunch of lawyers made a bunch of $$ off both sides
Rookie Wages have been scaled back.
Free agency starts after 4 years (used to be 5 I believe)
Rookies are going to face all kinds of struggles this year without offseason workouts/playbooks. Same with 1st year coaches.
Expect the preseason games to be uglier than normal. Expect the first 2-4 weeks of games to be ugly as well.
All from memory - feel free to add/correct info
So if we assume someone plays the average career length (3.something) years at the minimum:
375+465+555 = $1,395,000 in earnings over the 3 year career. Not bad, assuming a middling min-level player graduated with a 4 year degree that's a pretty good start to a career. It's not the mind-boggling numbers that people associate with pro athletes, but it's good work if you can get it for a bit. Hopefully players can be like Brandon Graham and be smart with their $$
I was hoping the amounts would be a little higher. I'm going to have to retain my amatuer status.
Interesting. I don't know what it was before, but I wonder if the rookie-veteran disparity might hurt a lot of veterans (i.e. lead to premature retirement). If you're a low-wage vet, you'd have to convince a team to pay you almost 3x as much as a rookie with a lot more years ahead of him and room to grow. I'd actually want teams to be able to pay me much less than that (unless minimum contracts don't count toward the cap or something).
I think that only the top 51 or so contracts count against the cap, your last few dont. I think it's 51 but I'm not sure.
There are 53 players listed on a teams final roster, but only 45 can dress on game day. Not sure how this is worked into salary cap issues.
Small point, but rosters are now up to 46 this year from 45. They eliminated the emergency 3rd QB rule and bumped rosters up 1 to accomodate.
Those making the minimum are probably the biggest winners in this new CBA.
The cap hardly changed from the previous agreement, but those at the bottom of the food chain are getting a larger percentage of the pie.
I'm sure other readers would be interested in adding a column or two for historical perspective - at least 2010 and 2009. Offhand, I want to say the absolute minimum for 2010 was low $300k's.
Is this publicly available info that other dorks (ME) among us can look at?
OT, but is your sig from anything, or just your adaptation of the Monty Python sketch?
I just added that this morning as it was used here:
http://mgoblog.com/content/dear-diary-hunts-red-november
from "why waste a good chart"
The NFL can go to an NFL game season potentially in the future. THe league would have to drop 2 preseason games to do so.
Drop two preseason games? They are so interesting.....