(08-17-2021, 12:45 PM)Kammrath Wrote: In a general sense paying a player exactly his worth is a GOOD thing. A contract too small can be an issue with player contentment and with trade matching, underpaying a player by a lot is not really a good thing long term. A contract too big...well we know all about that.For sure, I've been asking for that for such a long time, arguing with people over market value vs on court value. If that's what they're using it for basically as a starting point then I'm glad for that, it should really help the Nicotiator do his thing. I just hope there is as much emphasis on personal/team evaluation as there is on analytics based negotiating, that's why I opened up my post with the first sentence "I certainly hope this isn't the only thing they use in their decision making." My thoughts on this have aligned very closely to FGump's (he worded things much better than I did).
Sure, we want the Mavs to get "team friendly" deals from time to time, but most importantly we want the Mavs paying player what they are actually worth IMO.
I want the Nicotiator to make as informed a decision as he can, and this could be a piece to the puzzle. If many other teams are using this metric, that helps him get to a starting point with which to propose trades and offer contracts (because he can basically see what most of the league values him at).