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Post by Buschworker(Steelers) on Apr 4, 2013 19:57:41 GMT -5
Salary cap penalty for waiving players shall be calculated on a staggered scale. 1st year, penalty=50%. 2nd year, penalty=33.33%. 3rd year or longer=25%?
My question is about the 3rd year or longer. If the player is not picked up by another team you pay a penalty for 4, 6, or more years?
Also because of the increase in cost of some of my players that are under .50 if I wanted to drop a different player that was at or over that example .52 would I be able to drop them to accommodate my team and cap. Without having to suffer a penalty?
I also would have liked to see where the 125 year contract length would have varied based on the number of players on your team. 25 players on your team 5 year average contract. 50 players is a 2.5 year average.
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Post by Oakland Raiders (Andrew) on Apr 4, 2013 20:04:33 GMT -5
The 25% penalty is for the 3rd, 4th and 5th years of the player's contract at the time the player is dropped. If a player is on a 2-year contract at $6.00 and is dropped, the owner would incur a $3.00 cap penalty for the current season and then a $2.00 cap penalty for the next season. If that same player was on a 3 year contract when they were dropped, there would be a cap penaly of $1.50 for the third season. (It'd be rare for a team to give a player 5 years and drop him the same season, to be sure, but any way you slice it it's 25% for each year beyond the 2nd.
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Post by Oakland Raiders (Andrew) on Apr 4, 2013 20:18:30 GMT -5
No, the no-penalty drops are only for players that are on salaries of .49 and below. The reasoning behind this is that it was kind of a mistake on everyone's part that the minimum salary for veterans was not the same as the minimum salary for rookies, and the result was that 1/3 of the league's players are on a salary below .50 at this point. That was never supposed to happen, and flooding the market with undervalued product creates havoc and skews values. There was also a huge run on these players after a number of teams decided to pick up a slew of .10 to .15 roster fillers instead of using their last $2-$3 on picks from rounds 3-5, and it was a big reason why we ended up where we did.
The way we've decided to address this is to allow the benefit of the bargain of sub.-50 players for one year, after which they will all be gone. It may be that some folks want to drop a bunch of them to get cap room back for their later picks. Others may want to drop 4 ten-cent players in order to raise the salary of a fifth ten-cent player in order to sign him to more than one year.
Part of the reason that we expanded everyone's cap room was to provide some room for teams to give raises to the best of these players. What we also found is that there are a number of players in the .30 to .49 salary range that owners are likely going to want to keep for more than one year because they will still be great bargains at .50.
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Post by Oakland Raiders (Andrew) on Apr 4, 2013 20:24:45 GMT -5
As far as contract years go, 125 is a number we have found works well in other leagues. You can't give out too many 4 and 5 year deals without having to cut back elsewhere. And, one thing you will definitely see after this season (i.e, once every player in the league has a minimum salary of .50) is that very few teams will have anywhere near 50 players. You'll see low 30s, and you'll have a couple teams in the mid-40s tops, but most teams will carry between 35 and 40 players. If someone is carrying a full 50 players they're almost certainly going to be carrying a high number of .50 roster fillers.
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Post by Buschworker(Steelers) on Apr 4, 2013 21:04:46 GMT -5
Sorry but one more question. In the rookie draft can we pick the length of contract for all pick? If a player is drafted but does not sign with a team and we drop them, do they still count against out cap?
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Post by Oakland Raiders (Andrew) on Apr 4, 2013 21:33:59 GMT -5
Yes, owners now have the ability to choose the number of contract years assigned to drafted rookies, regardless of what round the player is drafted. All players, both veterans and rookies aide, can be assigned 1 to 5 year contracts.
If a rookie is drafted and released instead of being signed to a contract, the rookie's salary will not count against that team's cap.
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Post by Buschworker(Steelers) on Apr 6, 2013 17:28:19 GMT -5
Where do we post what players we want to raise to $.50 so that we can keep them for more than 1 year.
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Post by Crestmount (Colts) on Apr 6, 2013 18:02:12 GMT -5
send me a pm
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