Was thinking about development teams at work today (it was slow, I promise) and wanted to clarify who would actually select the development tracks for riders on those teams. I assumed that it would be:
- the manager who retained rights to the rider using comment 7a; for their individual rider
- the development team manager who retains the right to an individual rider within their own team - for that individual rider
- collective decision by the combined management for the remaining riders
Is this correct?
I think this is correct. Not sure on the OVL question, will certainly rely on the results adjustment to help adjust salary demands.
Totally understand that results adjustments will help a bit, but I don't think that's sufficient because (1) it doesn't affect RD allowances, and (2) more importantly, results modifiers historically really only target overperformance rather than underperformance. That makes sense for instances where the a rider just got unlucky one year, but not really where we know there has been a systemic stats change which will be the same in the next season with the same PCM. A team is basically forced to either release their rider to get some semblance of wage value short term, or carry an albatross contract hoping the OVL adjusts in some unknown future season. They can't negotiate around it.
I know we've been more resistant to making OVL changes year on year in the last half decade or so, but to me this is a small and straightforward adjustment that is really needed.
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