Pig Penny Reward - Partial Trades (140 views)

[eric]

had a thought today re: the Magic taking Mercer's deal if it wasn't so big

what if we had a reward option that allowed the sending team to eat part of the salary of a contract they were sending out

something like $10k per million

so in this case the hawks could pay $30k and trade mercer for (e.g.) klay thompson straight up since $5m and $4.5m work, the magic would get mercer on a $5m deal, the hawks wouldn't have any cut money

i just woke up like dis so i want to stress this is a preliminary stage, not even CLOSE to trial let alone probationary

[jhb]

I think the trading team should still have the cut money. The salary should seemingly go somewhere

[skrouse]

this is basically a partial buyout, don't hate it. Would need to think of other situations/examples before I have a strong opinion either way

[Deleted]

big fan of the concept but it needs ironing out. voted yes anyway because it will get ironed out if we move forward with it.

[TimPig]

Seems good, but I'm not following entirely. Would love to see more examples.

[eric]

Nov 11, 2019 21:31:13 GMT TimPig said:

Seems good, but I'm not following entirely. Would love to see more examples.

so let's say team A has player X making $Z million, and wants to trade to team Y with player B making $θ ± ϕ (using the prototypical definition of inclination and stereotypical definition of azimuthal angle respectively). using the set of pseudoreal integers Bret, take the Feynman path integral to diagonalize |Bret>, because who does he think he is, anyway

f***ing Bret

Bret

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it's just substituting pig pennies for salary for trade purposes. and since my idea is a flat $10k per million, we can apply it to multi year contracts by having to pay for each year past the first independently

so the _Blazers could trade
625 Trail Blazers Emeka Okafor 29 $7,783,160 $8,561,476 $9,339,792 $10,118,108 $10,896,424 $0 $0
for Klay Thompson ($4,500,000) and pay $30k to have Emeka's first year reduced to $4.8m and leave all other years alone or they could pay $150k to reduce every year by $3m. they'd have to reduce the first year to make the trade work, but otherwise they would have latitude to do whatever. i anticipate it being mostly used on the first year though

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i'm not sold on it myself but i think it's worth considering

[eric]

Nov 11, 2019 14:46:23 GMT jhb said:

I think the trading team should still have the cut money. The salary should seemingly go somewhere

my thinking is it's essentially an amnesty

[TimPig]

Nov 11, 2019 22:21:01 GMT eric said:

Nov 11, 2019 21:31:13 GMT TimPig said:

Seems good, but I'm not following entirely. Would love to see more examples.

so let's say team A has player X making $Z million, and wants to trade to team Y with player B making $θ ± ϕ (using the prototypical definition of inclination and stereotypical definition of azimuthal angle respectively). using the set of pseudoreal integers Bret, take the Feynman path integral to diagonalize |Bret>, because who does he think he is, anyway

f***ing Bret

Bret

.

it's just substituting pig pennies for salary for trade purposes. and since my idea is a flat $10k per million, we can apply it to multi year contracts by having to pay for each year past the first independently

so the _Blazers could trade
625 Trail Blazers Emeka Okafor 29 $7,783,160 $8,561,476 $9,339,792 $10,118,108 $10,896,424 $0 $0
for Klay Thompson ($4,500,000) and pay $30k to have Emeka's first year reduced to $4.8m and leave all other years alone or they could pay $150k to reduce every year by $3m. they'd have to reduce the first year to make the trade work, but otherwise they would have latitude to do whatever. i anticipate it being mostly used on the first year though

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i'm not sold on it myself but i think it's worth considering

Thought I understood but the Okafor example really threw me off.

[jhb]

I changed my mind to bad idea after the Okafor example