If conditions permit, Lu Yiqi's first move was to transform the team's offensive front line, which was the basis for the Green Bay Packers' overall strength to a higher level; secondly, the team's linebacker, and then the defensive front line, which was a necessary means to improve the lower limit of the Green Bay Packers' game.

However, the reason why NFL can become the first of the four major sports leagues in North America is that the "if" who enhance the team's strength has too many harsh conditions, which directly restricts the strong team from continuing to strengthen, avoids the intensification of the gap between weak teams' continuous decline, and forms a subtle restraint and balance. The increase in the strength gap also increases the suspense of the victory and loss, and the excitement of the game and the ownership direction of the championship can all be realized.

The grand occasion of a team of "superstars gathering" may appear in the NBA, but it is absolutely impossible to be in NFL because the latter has a hard salary cap, which is also a core issue that cannot be avoided before in-depth discussion of draft pick strategies.

One question that countless fans can't figure out is why the NBA team's income is several times that of NFL players?

In the 2020 offseason, the Kansas Chiefs, who just won the Super Bowl championship, signed a ten-year $503 million contract with his young main quarterback Patrick Mahomes, of which $477 million is the guaranteed amount, which also created the largest salary contract in North American sports history.

There is no doubt that Mahomes has created a whole new history, which is a height that NBA has not been able to reach, but this is the only exception.

What before this?

What can be compared horizontally is that in the 2016 offseason, andrew-luck, the Indianapolis Colts quarterback, signed a six-year, $140 million contract. This was the first contract in NFL's history at that time, but less than a month later, NBA player Mike-conley easily surpassed 153 million in five-year, $153 million.

What's even more pitiful is that Lark's contract guarantee is only 87 million. The horizontal analogy is Evan Fournier, who just renewed the contract in Orlando Magic among the NBA. The contract signed by the same period is 85 million for five years, with full guarantee.

In other words, the highest contract in NFL created in history in 2016 was only a mid-level contract in NBA, not to mention that the salary level was far from improving in 2009. So, what's the reason?

Judging from the league's revenue alone, nfl is almost twice that of NBA, and the number of viewers, ad likes, national popularity, etc. far exceeds the latter; among the four major sports leagues in North America, nfl is the unrivalled top spot, while nba can only rank third.

However, there is such an incredible huge gap in player personal income, just like another world.

Specific reasons? Complex and complex? Simple and simple.

NFL and NBA both have salary caps, and the salary cap calculation method of the two adopts a similar formula.

In nfl? Divide rugby-related income into different parts? Multiply each part by a different proportion, and after all are superimposed? Divide by thirty-two as the salary cap of each team, and set an upper and lower limit for this total value?      It should be 47% to 48.5% of the total income of nfl rugby career.

Similarly? NBA also stipulates that the salary cap should be 49% to 51% of the total income of basketball.

Therefore, whether it is rugby or basketball, if the league income increases, the salary cap will inevitably increase. Then the salary level of players can also rise, and both sides are sustainable. However, the specific reasons why the average salary of rugby players is far inferior to that of basketball players can be divided into two parts.

First, the number of people.

Among the NFL team? The number of people included in the salary cap is the fifty-one with the highest salary, while the maximum number of people on the NBA team is only fifteen.

In the nfl, there are more than 1,600 players who share 48.5% of the total revenue? But NBA only enjoys 51% of the total revenue together.

So, even if the total income of nfl is more than doubled than nba? But the per capita salary of nfl is less than half of nba.

Second, salary cap.

Does nfl use a hard salary cap? If you exceed the salary cap, you will not be allowed to sign a contract? If you don’t have it, you won’t have it? There is no exception. In order to avoid transfer operations, players will become passive in renewing contracts. Nfl teams often compress the total contract amount and the guaranteed part, which also further controls and compresses the player’s income.

NBA also has two lines: salary cap and luxury tax starting point, but even if the salary cap is exceeded, you can still find Birdtrie, middle class special case, biennial special case and other additional cases to complete the signing; even if the luxury tax is exceeded, it is not a big problem. As long as the player pays the fine, he can still sign it to the player he likes.

It is precisely because of this that there is a huge gap in salary income among football and basketball players; but overall, the overall average salary figure of the two leagues has not expanded further, but has maintained a continuous growth rate similar to the economic level, and the upward trend is very close.

From an objective standpoint, the oppressive control brought by the hard salary cap limits the average salary level of NFL players, but in turn also enhances the average competitiveness of the 32 teams in the league, thereby improving the excitement of the game and laying the key to the strong influence of the league-

Due to the existence of a hard salary cap, it is almost difficult for a team to sign multiple top superstars at the same time. In addition, football originally requires the offensive team, the defensive team and the special service team to unite fully to win the game, and it is even more difficult for the stars scattered in different positions to gather.

Naturally, the gap in strength between the team is difficult to widen. There are countless classic games where weak defeat the strong and small defeat the big.

More importantly, this also eliminates the situation where a team is dominant, and continues the intensity of competition and shines.

The Green Bay Packers were able to reach the 43rd Super Bowl. Such a miracle could happen in NFL, but the difficulty in NBA must be increased several times.

The existence of a hard salary cap directly affects the offseason preparations of each team-

First, what contract should a player who needs to renew his contract in the team? If the contract required by the player exceeds the team manager's plan for the hard salary cap, it depends on what position the player plays in the head coach's tactical system, whether he agrees or takes action with the transfer?

From here, you can clearly feel that quarterbacks are often irreplaceable due to their particular position, which is why they can win large contracts.

Second, how should the contract and personal value be measured for players worthy of introducing in the free agent market? Whether the effect of introducing a top superstar can be rewarded, because a team may often only introduce one to two superstars in an offseason.

So, how the head coach and team manager should plan the team configuration has become a key problem.
Chapter completed!