There was a discussion a while back from a bunch of us concerining how much the cap hits should be for trading/releasing players.

I just thought of something else. Our goal is to make this as comparable to the NFL as possible.

When a team trades a player to somebody else they take a cap hit for the bonus money still owed to them. Ebenezer was already working on trying to come up with a number on what % of the money owed would be considered bonus money for our cap hits.

I just got to thinking and shouldn't that make the players salaries cheaper through the remaining years of their contract if the team who traded them takes a cap hit?

When two teams in the NFL agree on a trade the team who trades the player takes the cap hit and that wipes off the money owed by the team who traded for the player also.

So say a team traded a player in the NFL who was on a 4yr-25 million dollars left to him. If he still had 8 million in bonus money owed to him that hit would go to the team who traded the player. Then the team who traded for the player wouldn't be stuck with any bonus money. That would mean the 2 million a year in prorated bonus money is wiped off the exisiting contract that they took on. They would only actually owe the player 17 million for the final 4 years of the contract. Then later on if they decide to release/trade the player again they don't have any type of a cap hit unless they gave him more bonus money along the way.

I think it would be productive for that same type of strategy to be used in our league. We take cap hits for trading/releasing a player because this is based off real life and that's how it works in the NFL.

If this is the case shouldn't the same rules follow for the team who traded for the player too? If the team who traded the player is eating the bonus money then the team who traded for the player shouldn't have the same salaries the rest of the contract. That would mean that the money is being paid twice.

If one of us traded a player who was owed 22 million over 3 years the team who traded him would get an 11 million dollar cap hit off the bat cause it's considered bonus money that teams have to pay in real life. To follow the same suit then that player should have some of that money wiped off what they're gonna owe the player and they shouldn't be responsible for any cap hits if they decide to release/trade the player because it was already paid by the team who traded him.

It's just a thought. I'm just a newbie and I'm not one of the commishes but it's something to think about. That's how it's done in real life. If the other team takes on the same contract left after the team who traded him had to take a cap hit for getting rid of him then the money is being paid twice.

We should come to terms with what a certain percentage of a contract will be in bonus money and pro-rate that to an average amount over the years of the contract. Should that player be traded then whatever is left will go against the traders cap hit and then the team who traded for him would be reliable for the rest of the salary left after that was paid.

In the NFL when this happens that the prorated bonus money factored into the overall salary of a player is no longer the responsibility of the team who traded for him because it has already been paid by the original team which in turns lowers the cap hits of the team who traded for him and they are just left with the salary of that player left.

So say we signed a player to a contract of 7.5, 7.5, 10, 10 and 10 million. That would mean he was signed for 45 million dollars over 5 years.

Now say on average in real life(or 40% which was talked about before) that player would've received an 18 million dollar bonus. That would make the salaries of that player 3.9, 3.9, 6.4, 6.4 and 6.4 and then 3.6 million a year tacked on for the prorated bonus money.

If after three years this team decided to trade the player then he should receive a 7.2 million dollar cap hit(and 2.8 million dollar cap savings) from the bonus money left and in return the team who traded for the player would pick up the remaining two years of salary at a rate of 6.4 million for each year.

The way it is now the team who traded him would've had a 10 million dollar cap hit for the prorated bonus money it's considered and then the team who traded for him would also still have to pay the player 10 million a season. It's being paid twice.