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I did mention Kohli got paid more, but the pattern they followed for retention was 15-11-3 because it had the Uncapped player as 3rd..
That's the point, then how in 2018 RCB had to go for the 15-11-3 combo rather than 12.5-8.5-3 combo which would have had only 2 capped players, like how RR did today with the 14-10-4 slab combo instead of 15-11-4.
Same applies for srh too. Despite having 3 players, only 14cr is getting deducted from Williamson slot rather than 15..
The earlier years never had a preferential retention quota based on the number of players retained. This BS was introduced only in 2018 mega auction.
I don't think it's about more money for both in 2018, but about slots because RCB was the only team with an Uncapped retention that year. Something must have changed for this year's auction retention rules..
The rules are actually changing based on the evolution of the auction process.. In 2011 Retentions, there wasn't any salary cap for retentions, they can pay how much ever they want but IPL would have cut out a fixed amount irrespective of the price payed.. Then came the 2014 Retentions which had put out a salary caps in place but teams were allowed to pay excess which wasn't put in the purse... Then in 2018, the rules evolved be it right or wrong to give a luxary for the teams who don't have any system in place like KXIP to perform better imo... The same was maintained this time as well... But RR had utilised the uncapped clause better by general is what I had meant... I still do believe it was the case of Kohli and Ab quoting higher salaries is what caused franchise to put out more...
