In case anyone's interested, I did some back of an envelope hypothetical maths for 2021 @WNBA Free Agency:
Cut everyone who looks a likely/easy cut, ended up with 71 roster spots up for grabs.
Also results in around $8,100,000 in cap room league-wide.
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If you assume 12 2021 1st-rounders make rosters, those numbers come down to around $7,300,000 for 59 players.
On my Free Agency list last week - herhoopstats.substack.com/p/2021-wnba-fr… - there were 81 players: 43 UFAs, 11 RFAs, 16 Reserved and 11 Suspended-Contract Expired.
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I went through the list and hypothetically gave out contract levels that seemed reasonable to the top players. Ended up with 14 max/supermax, and 22 mid-high (150-160k) contracts.
That gets you 36 players earning a total around $6,250,000.
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That would leave just over $1,000,000 for 23 players if every team spent up to the cap (which never happens) and they all carried 12 players (which rarely happens).
The minimum next year is $58,710, so that nearly works. 17 of those fit into $1m.
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All of which is to say, if every team was willing to spend and every player willing to move, most free agents could get about what you'd expect next season. Even under the new CBA's salary structure.
However, things never balance out that nicely. So expect weirdness. #WNBA (5/5)
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