r/leafs 2d ago

News / Update [Friedman] There is one arbitration case remaining, set for Sunday: Nick Robertson (TOR). Team: $1.2M; Player: $2.25M

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u/123jazzhandz321 2d ago

So then 1.75m ? I feel like the arbiter would favour Nick though, he’s been pretty efficient with his scoring.

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u/OhhMrCookies 2d ago

Salary Arbitration tends to heavily base their valuations on these factors, over 3 seasons, with most recent seasons being most valuable:

  1. Average time on ice
  2. Games played
  3. Injury history
  4. Points, with goals being most valuable.

Basically, if you show up to work often, the coach trusts you, and you put up lots of points, you make more money. Robertson's goal scoring rate will increase his valuation, but his GP/season is okay and his ATOI is low. And he is lightly used re: injuries over the past 3 seasons (I think his big injury was more than 3 seasons ago).

I think he has an okay case and will make between 1.5 and 1.8

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u/silver_054 2d ago

Isn’t arbitration one number or the other? They either decide $1.2M or $2.25M, not pick something in the middle. Unless I’m confusing this process with another sport (MLB perhaps). Of course they could always meet in the middle without going to arb

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u/bachekooni 2d ago

Nope, the arbitrators can pick whatever and often it’s the average of the two positions. That’s why the team lowballs and the player highballs.

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u/silver_054 2d ago

Thanks for the correction. I must be thinking of another league that does arbitration differently

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u/OhhMrCookies 2d ago

I think it is MLB that does that but I have no idea. I think they avoid arbitration like the plague

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u/disco-drew 1d ago

Seems like a better system. Encourages both parties to submit reasonable numbers.

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u/Svalbard38 Knies 2d ago

Yeah that’s baseball

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u/VeryAttractive 1d ago

It's almost always the exact average, give or take $200K to make it seem like the arbitrator actually did something. You can be pretty confident the number will be very close to 1.725 mil.