Not sure of formula but it was touted by the AFL as part of restructure of the upcoming trading and draft process.
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The Blair "Which?" Project
- Thread starter Tony Braxton-Hicks
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We could go upto each top 8 side and offer 100k cap relief in exchange for 1st rnd picks.
This years draft-2/12/13/14/15/16/17/18
Well they actually got a pick and a player for taking on his salary.
This is slightly different. The player stays. Part of his salary is put on the salary cap of another club who receive a draft pick from the other club for absorbing part of their player’s salary.
Scats got away with it. Should never have been allowed. Imagine what the Politburo have done if we’d done it
Nothing more or less than smart work by the Moggies. They simply rewrote a players contract which has been done on a regular basis since the salary cap was first invented.
Bloody ridiculous that there was only one club in the running at the time, rest of the comp to busy twiddling the old fella.
Yep I've been calling out the obvious arbitrage that is in an 18th placed list having to pay 95% of the salary cap (that prepays some players hoping they will get better) vs the 1st placed team (that can backload some stuff aka lynch).
This is just smart work by Geelong.
Trading salary cap for picks seems an obvious evolution to get rid of what is otherwise patently ridiculous. But also like any form of optioneering is going to end up in some mighty *smile* ups.
One could see an obvious massive advantage to a #Lolnorf over recent years only having to pay approximately 75% to 80% of their cap to the developing youngsters and assisting contending clubs by handing over their spare cap allowance for extra draft picks.
It would firstly eliminate the *smile* need of priority picks to rebuild a list.
Would save clubs from having to overpay youngsters on the basis of maybe potential rather than actual performance in their developing years.
Would allow clubs that were actually in contention to better keep their list intact for those few viable years of playing for a flag, balanced against the obvious risk of perhaps missing some draft talent which would cause the inevitable drop and rebuild process required after the flag chase.
If we do lose a few of our senior players , BH could have a huge war chest to go shopping with , not sure there’s a huge amount of talent we would be front loading long term contracts either . Harley Reid 
Interesting to know whether Blair sees our current rebuild as intellectual nirvana for him to work his magic, or a hard slog while we wallow at the bottom for a while
No one worth $$$ will come to a bottom dweller. Meanwhile, we can front-end a number of contracts so the war chest is enormous when we start to contend again. Bring forward Tarranto and Hopper's 7 year contracts for a start, and then from Year 6 all they'll be costing us is a list spot and loose change.If we do lose a few of our senior players , BH could have a huge war chest to go shopping with , not sure there’s a huge amount of talent we would be front loading long term contracts either . Harley Reid
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Like that , possibly give us a mil in cap space when we have a star cub coming out of his first contract .
I’d never say never to a player coming to the Tiges , we should never underestimate the pull of the power of playing at Punt rd
I’m thinking we should trade out Bolton and use the capital to lever a key forward out of another team. The obvious one is Treacy at freo but seems committed there. What about one of those bullies talls? Grab some outside speedsters with the change, a couple of classy mids in the draft. Looking good!
What a load of bollocks.
The AFL changed the rules on the run so their two pet teams could pull off this travesty.
No other teams had a chance to be involved.
