Question: NFL Salary Structure

[Clay Dreslough]

Does anyone have exact data on the NFL minimum for 2002-2003?

I read an article (http://espn.go.com/nfl/columns/clayton_john/1158785.html) that talks of the "$477,000 league minimum", but I think this might be the minimum for VETERANS, and I'd like to find the overall minimum for rookies.

Football Mogul uses $209,000 -- but this number is a few years old (back when the salary cap was $55,000,000 instead of $67,400,000 or whatever it is exactly this year).

Clay

[MessiahRp]

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Rp

http://www.askthecommish.com/Articles/capanomics2.htm

[ogallala]

I'm curious why you decided to use dollar amounts in FM instead of the point system used in Baseball Mogul. It would seem that future updates would be easier to produce using the abstract point rather then the dollar (ie one point is the minimum wage regardless of what the NFL sets the min wage that season). One of the most interesting concepts of BM was the ability to play with a data base made from players in the 50's or 70's. I realize that would be much harder to reproduse in football where the number of stats kept is just now starting to catch up to the volumes kept each season in baseball, but I'm sure someone will try.

[MessiahRp]

No! Please don't use the points system. I like that we get to play with real money and not a play money points system. I actually DL'd a file that allows me to play with real money on BBM 2003. It makes the game much better.

Rp

[ryansiegrist]

The reason we use points in Baseball Mogul is because the MLBPA requires we do so. We are not allowed to use real cash salaries. Football Mogul we can use dollars becasue we don't have any liscenses with the NFL.