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The first thing for the NRL’s new Independent Commission to tackle should be the salary cap. It must be replaced with a new system.
Every player should be rated in a points system based on a range of different criteria like skill, speed, experience, rep games and more. These ratings should be public knowledge.
Each team should have a rating cap and this allows all teams to have an equal playing field, regardless of what a club can afford to pay them.
Players get a points deduction based on years service to their current club, giving clubs a better chance of keeping long serving players.
If players wish to change clubs, the new club does not get the discount for years service and must allow in their cap for the full current market rating.
This negates any issues regarding individual payments by third parties will allow players to earn what someone is willing to pay, whether it be $50,000 or $5 million.
Rich clubs will not be able to beat the system. Players ranking are updated constantly so if they have a great start to a year, any new club wishing to purchase that player will need to account for the ranking at the time the player signs the contract.
The game doesn’t have the money to increase the salary cap, and it is killing off the poorer teams with each increase. Change the system to improve the game.
This isn’t necessarily the best or only solution to the NRL’s salary cap issue, but more must be done. The public statistics and points deduction for ‘one-club’ players offers substantial improvement over the current system.
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