I think the way you are using cap-percentage is ridiculous, and not a proper way to measure it. If we can't even settle on the proper way to measure it, then how accurate of measurement is it actually? It is pretty clear it should be measured on the first year of the contract relative to the cap, since the contract never takes place in the previous cap. Teams have a general knowledge of the expectation of what the cap will rise too. If they don't they aren't prepared.They were signed under different caps with different information, yes.
He also played more games, got more PP TOI, and has way better linemates, and is not the driver of production on his line. And his contract was a bridge. Also, I'm not sure why we're now talking about post-signing production. Point didn't even hit P/GP this year.
I never ignored term, or these other factors that influenced Point's production.
Point's contract is closer in term to Matthews than Matthews is to either Eichel or McDavid. If you want to ignore post-signing production, Point outproduced Matthews last year.
You are legit telling me that Matthews 5th year is worth 18.2 million, unless you don't think Matthews is worth more than Eichel at 4 years than Eichel is at 8. Which would mean Matthews is worth 14.10 over 8. Which is ridiculous. We valued Matthews at over 10mx4, which was absolutely ridiculous.