As a respresentative of the SHLPO, one of the things that I would bring up with the league would be a flexible salary cap. This is something that has already been suggested a couple of times by multiple people including myself, but the HO was always numb on it. Well now with a union in place they can't ignore this proposal anymore! In my opinion the league needs a more flexible salary cap, not to make it easier to build powerhouses, but to give us the opportunity to adjust roster sizes depending on the size of the userbase. Are there lots of semi-actives who have trouble finding teams who take them on? Maybe think about slapping an extra 5M on the cap next season! Are teams able to build whole top-9s of 1000+ TPE players without having to make any sacrifices for it? Maybe think about cutting it down a bit for next season. So far expansion has been our main way to deal with fluctuating user numbers, why not add add a flexible and exciting salary cap on top of that to make sure that teams have room for players while not allowing certain franchises to pull away too much from the pack?

Also, the salary cap is a pretty significant tool to manage the flow of money in the league, but one that we haven't utilized at all for 20 plus seasons. So as a respresentative of the players, I would also try to use this change to get salaries to rise without handcuffing GMs. Basically, to kick this new system off we could up the contract values in our league in general, rise the salary cap by let's say 30%, but also raise minimum salaries by 30%. So everyone would make more while the GMs would still have the same relative amount of cap space. An inflation like that would be problematic when talking about TPE, but it isn't in regards to the $$$ aspect of this league because it is still very much capped. No matter how much money you make, there is only so much you can spend each season. So this would mostly be a change that helps newer and lower-activity users and help us keep them active, without making it too easy for them to catch up to the big dogs.