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What about NBL Salary Cap Breaches?

Pardon my ignorance, but if this was industry, then remuneration is based on market expectations in line with recognised industry salary midpoints.

Now, for the dummies, there is a company called Hays who generate salary midpoint graphs based on a "Hay Point" ranking per job. Each job can be measured across a number of areas and a "Hays Point" generated for the position. For example, a receptionist position may attract 100 Hay points, where as a Group General Manager position in charge of several manufacturing sites in an organisation may attract 1,500 points.

Hays then generate a formula graph and companies determine where there salaries will be. For example, Santos may decide to pay on the 90th percentile, whereas a small business may pay on the 25th percentile.

OK, so if you have any questions, just ask your HR Officer at work, they will understand and if they don't, they are either playing dumb, or just are dumb! Not too many companies like to let the cat out the bag on this one.

So, back to the NBL. A similar formula could be generated and adopted by the agents, if not already in place!

The NBL rank all players between 1 and 10. Now, knowing the salary cap is $X/yr and the max player points in Y, then the contract midpoint per ranking could be determined. From there, players are paid +/- 30% around that midpoint based on a number of factors, including skills and experience, value to the club, etc.

This would eliminate all this who haw of salary cap breaches as the agents, players, club and NBL then have a clear expectation of expected contract levels and so clubs/players/agent would not have to think about dodgy under the table payments.

Is that too logical??

I gather that in the AFL a sponsor of Geelong can pay Gary Ablett an additional million dollars (outside of the salary cap) to stay and this is allowed.
Where NRL/NBL it is not allowed.

Sometimes I wonder the merit of player points rating cap, but could be good for other leagues, in particular now 3rd party payments are allowed.
And/or a luxury tax.

Roberts Walls on 5AA during the week discussed several ways in which additional payments were made during the 70's to 90s in VFL/AFL clubs. Besides the brown paper bag, there were the houses built and paid for by the player on a very low interest loan, and then an over the top sale amount paid by a club supporter a year or two later. Didn't even have to pay capital gains tax.

"Also the 'old NBL' that does not cut it, it is the same league as alsways and you know it."


The NBL has changed particularly with the ownership structures and one million dollar (deposited with the NBL I think) required to guarantee a club for the season.

Also the preference for ownership consortium's instead off single owners. Once again helping club viability.

Part of this is policing of the salary cap. Not saying salary cap breaches wont happen but that they have been made harder to achieve.

The length of the NBL season is debatable unless there are strict guidelines laid down by the NBL. Each club seems to do their own thing in this matter. For example, the clubs that will not allow their players to take basketball jobs in the off season. If they can dictate what the players do in the off season, you would think that they are employed by their club for the whole year. One club in particular last season, I was advised that the players signed were only allowed 6 weeks leave and then had to be back for promotional work. For the clubs that allow their players freedom to do what they want in the off season, then you would assume they employ their players only for the 6 or 7 months of the season including pre season training. Only going on what I've heard but is a fact that I have not heard any hard and fast rules regarding the length of the NBL season. If any0one has any further information, you might like to share it. As for Schenscher, he is definitely not worth $240K when looked at as a percentage of the total cap.

like the way you backed your anon post with proof of said breaches

To breach the salary cap you need money to do it.