Injuries

[theaardvark]

Bonuses are stupid for nats. It doesn't help their taxes at all, and it screws us on sms savings on the 6g. Instead of a bonus we should tell these guys they can have 5k more total salary.

And if they use bonus as cut insurance, just sign a contract that says if they are cut they get that same bonus.

He signed in Dec.

$55k on 2025's $SMS

[Tecno]

He signed in Dec.

$55k on 2025's $SMS

That's the one thing that I'd allow, because that doesn't hurt the '26 SMS in any way.

However, you could argue that having a lot of prev-year SMS leftover in Dec is itself a bit of a failure of SMS allocation.  Unless it's done on purpose, of course: a GM might sacrifice one season to be able to "go over" next season via prev-year re-signing bonuses.

[theaardvark]

That's the one thing that I'd allow, because that doesn't hurt the '26 SMS in any way.

However, you could argue that having a lot of prev-year SMS leftover in Dec is itself a bit of a failure of SMS allocation.  Unless it's done on purpose, of course: a GM might sacrifice one season to be able to "go over" next season via prev-year re-signing bonuses.

Or, you had some major 6 game savings.

[Tecno]

Or, you had some major 6 game savings.

Which would be even higher if you didn't pay up-front bonuses!       

[Jesse]

Which would be even higher if you didn't pay up-front bonuses!       

I don't think SMS room is our issue tech. We made a bunch of huge signings. We signed our own guys that we wanted to keep.

The problem is scouting and recruitment.

[Pigskin]

I have no problem with a signing bonus. Lots of people in different professions get a signing bonus. My wife received one the last contact she signing with the government. Gas "A" fitters are getting a $10,000 bonus to sign with companies in Manitoba right now.