New collective bargaining elements include:
- Rule 5 picks costing 100k instead of 50k
- minimum DL stint changed to 10 days from 15 days
- Type A (or qualifying offer) compensation changes in a way that is outside HBD's reality, but teams lose either their third highest pick (those who receive revenue sharing), their 2nd and 5th picks (those who pay revenue sharing), or their 2nd and 500k in international money if they are neither. Note the Type A already had changed to a qualifying offer system, where the team had to make a qualifying offer (which paid them a lot) in order for said player to give them back compensation. you only got compensation if they turned down the QO and signed elsewhere. Now they have to turn down the QO, and if they sign for more than 50 million total, they are a Type A and get a draft choice "after the first round", and if it is less then 50 million the are a type B (and I'm not real sure what the type B draft picks are now)
- There is now a hard cap on international signings and it is between 4.75 and 5.75 depending on revenue. Note that this is not per signing, this is a cap on total budget and they have included significant penalties to any teams trying to find ways to breech that budget. There are also age and experience requirements that determine whether these international players qualify as prospects or players so that older players can sign ML deals still
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