Unofficial Rookie Contract Bonuses
 

Subject to auditing, the following are the bonuses earned in the 2004 season by players still under their rookie contract.

Player-Pos-Team-Bonus-Contract Bump

Willis McGahee, RB, Liquid Swords, finished 10th among RBs, as a 1st rounder earns a 300 cb bonus, '05 salary jumps from 593 to 893 (539 in '04).

Clinton Portis, RB, Bay Area Bloodsucking Insects, finished 9th among RBs, as a 1st rounder earned 300 cb bonus, '05 salary jumps from 1278 to 1578 (1162 in '04).

Joey Harrington, QB, Indiana Undead, finished 16th among quarterbacks, as a 1st rounder earned a 100 cb bonus, '05 salary jumps from 629 to 729 (572 in '04).

Andre Johnson, WR, Parkwood Predators, finished 18th among WRs, as a 1st rounder earned a 100 cb bonus, '05 salary jumps from 375 to 475 (341 in '04).

Byron Leftwich, QB, Philadelphia Freedom, finished 18th among QBs, as a 1st rounder earned a 100 cb bonus, '05 salary jumps from 448 to 548 (407 in '04).

Carson Palmer, QB, Royal Hawaiian Opihi, finished 20th among QBs, as a 1st rounder earned a 100 cb bunus, '05 salary jumps from 375 to 475 (341 in '04).

Michael Clayton, WR, Royal Hawaiian Opihi, finished 13th among WR, as a 1st rounder earned a 100 cb bonus, '05 salary jumps from 264 to 364 (240 in '04).

David Carr, QB, Liquid Swords, finished 13th among QBs, as a 1st rounder earned a 100 cb bonus, '05 salary jumps from 480 to 580 (436 in '04).

Jason Witten, TE, Brain Dead Squirrel Chasers, finished 3rd among TEs, as a 3rd rounder earned a 88 cb bonus, '05 salary jumps from 121 to 209 (110 in '04).

Daniel Graham, TE, Indiana Undead, finished 10th among TEs, as a 1st rounder eared a 50 cb bonus, '05 salary jumps from 133 to 183 (121 in '04).

Jeremy Shockey, TE, Royal Hawaiian Opihi, finished 7th among TEs, as a 1st rounder earned a 50 cb bonus, '05 salary jumps from 433 to 483 (394 in '04).

Nate Burleson, WR, Nittany Dodgers, finished 17th among WRs, as a 3rd rounder earned a 50 cb bonus, '05 salary jumps from 121 to 171 (110 in '04).

Javon Walker would have earned a 225 bonus, but his contract expires in April.

Of the 13 players earning a bonus this year, 10 are first round draft picks. Only one was a rookie.

Re: Unofficial Rookie Contract Bonuses
 

Good stuff. This looks to be perfect in terms of how this should work. Brian (I think this was your brainchild), this is an excellent idea and another reason why I say that this is the best FF league going.

BTW, looks like a fair number of players finished just out of the money.

Re: Unofficial Rookie Contract Bonuses
 

Thanks Matt. Mike deserve a bunch of credit as well, as we both were playing with the numbers to work this whole thing out.

I am very pleased with the way this worked out. I did want to tinker with some of the numbers, but had my tinkering been done, only one more player (Lelie) would have gotten a bonus, so I think this is working really well. I also like the distribution among the positions (4 QB, 2 RB, 4 WR, 3 TE getting bonuses).

Re: Unofficial Rookie Contract Bonuses
 

Kudos to Mike as well.

Re: Unofficial Rookie Contract Bonuses
 

I haven't cranked the numbers in the draft app yet, but they look about right. Nice job Brian... and thanks for the kudos Matt!

Re: Unofficial Rookie Contract Bonuses
 

Nice work guys.

Re: Unofficial Rookie Contract Bonuses
 

Great work! That ONE ROOKIE would be the Opihi WR phenom (who sat on the bench all year - sigh! lol), Michael Clayton. We look forward to many more years of productivity from Michael. Congrats, Mike! We're pleased to give you the salary bonus!

Re: Unofficial Rookie Contract Bonuses
 

In the interest at looking at percentages here is how these bonuses impacted salaries. Witten almost doubled his salary and MCGahee got a nice boost as well. This seems to be working out really well.

Willis McGahee-65.7%
Clinton Portis-35.8%

Carson Palmer-39.3%
Byron Leftwich-34.6%
David Carr-33.0%
Joey Harrington-27.4%

Nate Burleson-55.5%
Michael Clayton-51.7%
Andre Johnson-39.3%

Jason Witten-90.0%
Daniel Graham-51.2%
Jeremy Shockey-22.6%

Re: Unofficial Rookie Contract Bonuses
 

yup, I think we pretty much nailed a quality rookie forumula last year!

What sucks is this off season I don't sense too many fun yet heated debates on the horizon!

Re: Unofficial Rookie Contract Bonuses
 

I can start to mix things up if you like.

Re: Unofficial Rookie Contract Bonuses
 

Great job guys! Looks like Whitten is still a good value. Whoot! Too bad I traded him to the Ragers.

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