Specific Salaries in Free Agent Draft
Current Rule
Current 14.1 - A player's initial salary is determined by how the player was
acquired. Players acquired through the Free Agent draft are assigned an
option year salary as follows:
Round 1: $10 million Rounds 2: $7.5
million Rounds 3-4: $5 million Rounds 5-6: $4 million Rounds 7-8: $3
million Rounds 9-12: $2 million Rounds 13-16: $1 million Rounds 17-20:
$500K Rounds 21-24: $300K Rounds 25+: $100K
Change
14.1.1 In Rounds 1-12 (so until the $1.0mil salary rounds begin) Each money level
is broken down into money slots using the difference in salary to the
next round divided by the number of picks in each round, rounded to the nearest $1,000.
example: Round 1 to
round 2 is 2.5million divided by 23 or 108,650. So each pick in round 1 will be
decreased that amount, rounded to the nearest $1,000. So the first pick in round 1 is $10mil and the last pick is $7,501,00.
So in round 2 the first pick would be $7.5mil and the last pick $5,001,000.
This will
continue each round and will expand the division rate based on the picks
in that salary level.
14.1.2 Supplement picks in the round would be at the salary of the pick the team would pick at in the round based on rule 5.0.
