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The points cap is a terrible idea. Again, it rewards mediocrity. These points caps would you give you points for playing for australia and origin, so what happens if a team is right on the limit and a player refuses to play an international at the end of the season because it'll mean his team cant fit him in for the year after.
And how would multi year contracts work, if a team got some success and their points suddenly ballooned up they could be forced to sack deserving players and then possibly pay their salaries elsewhere.
It's a bad idea and IMO even worse than salary cap. It's basically a direct way of penalising success while the salary cap is an indirect way.
Firstly, who says it would be based on rep games played, perhaps it could be a board of representitives that have no club affiliation that rank the top 100 players, Players in each tier get a value. The value of a player at the time he signs a contract would remain the same for the life of the contract, only when he wants to sign elsewhere or re-sign does the value change to his current assessment, this would mean young talent could be signed to long term contracts and developed instead of being pinched after 1 good year somewhere.
The points cap could give better exemptions and more evenly.
Also, the transparency is the key, there is no negotiation on the points value, a player can only fit in the cap if they are able to, no more brown paper bags.