Salary Cap USL

To prevent squads from stacking and causing an extreme unbalance in the seasons we should start using a salary cap. It still lets you recruit people you want to play with but it will also limit the amount of stacking a squad.

On a scale of 1-10 based on rating every player will be given a value. 100 rating = 10 points and 55 rating is 5.5 points. There are 12 active players on a squad and average out a rating of 6.5 or 7 per player would allow squads to get a bunch of good players but also be forced to recruit players that have lower salary caps. It could help the problem of 1 or 2 squads taking all the best players and leaving 4 or 5 other squads with the rest that have no real shot at beating them. Unlike a draft a captain is still in charge of recruiting but they have to be more smart about it.

This idea will need some work and the exact salary cap will have to be figured out once the rating system is finished. I think this could be a good step for a league that is trying to rebuild. If 1 squad just stays stacked and crushes everyone else it will just discourage players from coming back or staying back. Just think about something like this guys.

You would have better luck with a draft. This is honestly the worst idea I've ever seen. People still play this game because they want to play with their friends not with some random shitters.

How about instead of whining we do this:

1. Get better at the game.

2. Let every squad into the playoffs.

3. Get better at the game. It's been like what 15 years now?

Salary cap won't work for many reasons. A big one would be agreeing on values of players.

It's really up to the captains and players. It's not going to be possible to sustain a league with predictably stacked teams. You need some amount of parity.

i dont like this tbh, in the end its too restricting and makes the game a lot less fun. people wont be motivated to show up to a squad they dont wanna play for and infantry will fade again. i think the squads will eventually balance themselves out and competition will increase as the seasons progress. there are only a finite # of starting spots and players will trickle down to help balance. theres also squads like tank that come out of nowhere and do amazing. just let nature take its course

I'll take the contrarian opinion here and say I would definitely entertain the idea. I kinda wish we had the population to support two leagues (USL and SL) so we could do a sort of social experiment and try it out, see if it would work.

I agree with others as well though. I like letting the league develop organically, allowing good players to shift where they feel like they would play best. This idea crushes that notion, because now players would have a new consideration - What squad can afford to take me on without going over the salary cap?
And playing with friends is a BIG part of infantry. If I got stuck without any friends and a poor leader who screamed at me on vent and was completely disorganized in-game, I would absolutely consider quitting the squad, or putting in for a trade. And what if that trade can't be worked out? I would probably opt for free agency until someone with cap space picked me up or the next season started.

I will say, while I wasn't around for most of U's domination of SL, I do know that lots of players - some old SL, some newer from CTF - decided to quit the league because they felt like U would never break apart, and no one was ever going to beat them. (Although I concede Champion's point here....Get Better) If you don't even have a chance at winning, why play?

Value of Players is a tough nut to crack. You would need some sort of committee for that, whose decisions were unquestionably supported by the community.

Seems like pipe dreams, but so was bringing back Infantry when Sony closed the door on that. Who knows, in practice it might work really well. But I think a simple draft would be a far better, and simpler option to accomplish what you want - unless you have some really stupid captains.

I like both options, but we tried that with SL and it still hasn't worked yet

thats just because the zone kept crashing, but everyone showed up from every squad.

who is this guy

Sl was fine, we had 4 teams from a draft mostly active players. The zone kept crashing and everyone lost interest. It's feasible to do in usl offseason.

yea it was the constant crashing that made SL fade. if that's fixed lets bring SL back pleaseee

"You would need some sort of committee for that, whose decisions were unquestionably supported by the community"

roflcopter.

Half ppl will just quit

I do like the idea, and in a perfect world it make sense and be fair/competitive for all.

There is just so many reasons why this would be an epic fail.

well the 4 SL teams were so even, I wouldn't call one team stacked. Only downfalls, people want to play with their friends.. and players that are last pick, etc wouldn't get playtime

Why cant we do both and just call the draft Mechanized Skirmish League (msl) like it used to be called. Adding a league couldnt hurt. Might be difficult to keep it rolling with peoples availability, but people are starting to get active again. Maybe we can pick a day during the week to hold the draft league sbs

Rules would have to be enforced that make it so every player that shows up on match day must get at least 1 game of playtime otherwise captains are just going to play their 8 best players or friends. Happens every time we have tried this. The salary cap idea would be pretty neat for a draft league though.

i like the idea of doing both. more games couldn't hurt

Can we get SL happening again, We were all keen, I think now we would probably need a few extra Captains,Each Team Has 12-14 people, we would easily get enough to have 6 squads

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