I think Rich's salary is similar to my draft and value ratings. It includes both weighted ACT and POT to create the rating that is then applied to the salary scales by the position. This means it is not the rating to set your line up by, but it is a reasonable ranking of the players for trades, resigning decisions, and FA. It's just another way to evaluate players within the roster management of the game and does give a relative talent level between teams. Last season I had a better number than Chicago, but Chicago had the better top end talent and I had the deeper roster. The team totals again are skewed by numbers at positions and things, but if you look at it over the seasons, it is probably 80% to 90% predictive of the teams that win the most. Sure lower salary teams win, but as I noted in an earlier post, it's no surprise that all these different ways to rate talent, while imperfect, show the same teams near the top and it also roughly corresponds to W's..................
