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help with my team's cap! plz

By buenoboss11
6/14/2019 8:05 am
https://theefl.myfootballnow.com/team/30

i need help for this team. i was not trying to kill it. the ai gave everyone a long contract with a big bonus i traded most of the players for picks, a lot of picks. I have 96 mil in dead money this year and 159 mil in dead money next year. i'm using 186 mil total cap this year and 239 mil next year.

This Year
5 firsts
5 seconds
5 thirds
5 fourths
5 5ths
1 sixth
2 sevenths

Next Year

3 firsts
3 seconds
2 thirds
4 fourths
1 5th
1 sixth
2 sevenths

Help!

Re: help with my team's cap! plz

By Lamba
6/14/2019 8:53 am
That's a concious decision you made.

If you trade a bunch of players, you (mostly) end up with a bunch of dead cap.

Re: help with my team's cap! plz

By preshead
6/14/2019 10:03 am
What you need to do now is trade your picks for similar picks In the year after next year. Reason is because any player you traded or released that has bonus money due to him, will affect your dead cap.

The key detail here to keep in mind is that any player whose contract has more than two years remaining with bonus money, will hit your current season’s dead cap for the single year amount shown in his contract. But he will then hit your next season’s dead cap for all of the rest combined.

For example... John Smith has 4 years left on his contract that includes a bonus of 1 million per season. If you trade him or cut him, the current season will have a dead cap hit of 1 million. But the next season will have a dead cap hit of 3 million. Therefore, players with more than 2 years left on their contract have the potential to choke your salary cap much worse in the next season than the current season.

Now that you have your draft picks, your still not out of the woods yet because they will still have big cap hits with their contracts. And as you currently sit, they will collide with your dead cap and put you way over the salary cap (as you already seem to realize).

Your dead cap will greatly diminish after next season. Therefore, you will have a lot of room available for the contracts that will come from draft picks and/or high priced free agents. That’s why I started off by saying you now need to trade your draft picks for picks that take place the year after next (the 3rd season).

Extra tidbit of advice.... For now, that’s as far out of picks you can get back in trade. But as the seasons progress, you may want to consider trading some of those for later seasons so you can spread them out just a little bit. I recently did all of this with a team and now am having a tight situation of extending everyone’s contracts. I didn’t have as many draft picks as you.

Re: help with my team's cap! plz

By raymattison21
6/14/2019 10:47 am
Lamba wrote:
That's a concious decision you made.

If you trade a bunch of players, you (mostly) end up with a bunch of dead cap.



"By raymattison21
5/03/2019 7:38 am
It looks like you have 6+ mil available this year with no dead cap next year if you cut 3 guys. That's something but your strapped with some bad contracts . This makes trading picks away difficult cause your can only aquire 20 million in salary in exchange those picks. The hard part is finding enough talent that cheap and keeping the trade meter happy.

In general if you find 10 players you want on other teams with base salaries under 2 mil you be good, but it will be close. Trading next year's picks next year will give you another 10 mil then, so there's leeway there to help with next year's dead cap.

This team is in critical condition in terms of being gutted by the ai by the time the regular season starts"


I sent this in a pm over a month ago. He was strapped then too. Just buying time .....trading away picks is the only solution now. If that will even work. The way out was then not now. Why not let the ai gut you but keep all those picks and start from scratch ? I think it works that way?

Re: help with my team's cap! plz

By vcr5150
8/12/2019 2:01 pm
Addendum question for this thread:

What is the hard deadline to be under the cap? It is by the 1st pre-season game? (meaning in theory, you could be over the cap after the draft and through late free-agency. But, if you are over the cap at the first pre-season game - the A.I. cuts players.)

Re: help with my team's cap! plz

By TarquinTheDark
8/12/2019 2:07 pm
vcr5150 wrote:
Addendum question for this thread:

What is the hard deadline to be under the cap? It is by the 1st pre-season game? (meaning in theory, you could be over the cap after the draft and through late free-agency. But, if you are over the cap at the first pre-season game - the A.I. cuts players.)


pre-season mid-week 1, 1st sim after training camp