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With the owners opting out of the NFL CBA, there appears to be a chance that there will be significant changes to the way the NFL conducts business. I love how the NHL runs it cap - it is fairly simple and straightforward, w/o the caveats and loopholes that exist in the NFL and NBA.
Here are some highlights:
1. The cap hit is the average salary of the player. A player has a 5 year, 30 million dollar deal the hit is 6 million per. No playing with salaries like giving him 3 years of 5 million per, and then 2 years of 7.5. This makes it more difficult for teams to try and play with FA's by loading deals so a team can't match because of a heavy hit in one year.
2. Deals are guaranteed so there are few bonuses and the there is no crap like LTBE and NLTBE bonuses so teams get cap credits for previous cap money "spent". There is a small bonus adjustment, but it is much less than the NFL. There are not stupid things like giving Shaud Williams a 1 million bonus if he scores 5 TDs in a game so the Bills get a credit the next season.
3. Deals can't be extended until there is only one year left. So if you sign a 7 year deal, the player has it until at least year 6 before an extension, not a new deal can be signed. This eliminates hold-outs and essentially makes players and teams accept responsibility for what has been agreed to.
4. A team can buy a player out, but receives a cap hit immediately of 2/3rds of the remaining deal (not 100% on the actual amount and I am too lazy to verify right now although I do have the CBA saved somewhere). Basically it makes it so teams can cut a guy, but the dead space for a non used player is damaging, but impossible. In practice, this usually happens to players with only one year left on their deal.
5. There is a rookie cap. Self-explanatory. A must. The deals are very structured, usually 2 or 3 years and two-way deals (N/A for the NFL).
Here are some highlights:
1. The cap hit is the average salary of the player. A player has a 5 year, 30 million dollar deal the hit is 6 million per. No playing with salaries like giving him 3 years of 5 million per, and then 2 years of 7.5. This makes it more difficult for teams to try and play with FA's by loading deals so a team can't match because of a heavy hit in one year.
2. Deals are guaranteed so there are few bonuses and the there is no crap like LTBE and NLTBE bonuses so teams get cap credits for previous cap money "spent". There is a small bonus adjustment, but it is much less than the NFL. There are not stupid things like giving Shaud Williams a 1 million bonus if he scores 5 TDs in a game so the Bills get a credit the next season.
3. Deals can't be extended until there is only one year left. So if you sign a 7 year deal, the player has it until at least year 6 before an extension, not a new deal can be signed. This eliminates hold-outs and essentially makes players and teams accept responsibility for what has been agreed to.
4. A team can buy a player out, but receives a cap hit immediately of 2/3rds of the remaining deal (not 100% on the actual amount and I am too lazy to verify right now although I do have the CBA saved somewhere). Basically it makes it so teams can cut a guy, but the dead space for a non used player is damaging, but impossible. In practice, this usually happens to players with only one year left on their deal.
5. There is a rookie cap. Self-explanatory. A must. The deals are very structured, usually 2 or 3 years and two-way deals (N/A for the NFL).
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