I just messed with my roster for a bit and came up with a depth chart of guys I KNOW I am keeping. There maybe some additions of a a few guys I consider to be pending.
I came out at about 45.4M for 31 players.
I am not sure how contracts and FA are going to play out but is 40M enough for the offseason?
I remember that one fateful day when Coach took me aside. I knew what was coming. "You don't have to tell me," I said. "I'm off the team, aren't I?"
"Well," said Coach, "you never were really ON the team. You made that uniform you're wearing out of rags and towels, and your helmet is a toy space helmet.
You show up at practice and then either steal the ball and make us chase you to get it back, or you try to tackle people at inappropriate times."
It was all true what he was saying. And yet, I thought something is brewing inside the head of this Coach.
He sees something in me, some kind of raw talent that he can mold. But that's when I felt the handcuffs go on.
well i have been thinking about this myself. This cap is going to be a lot tougher then most think.
IF its under 4 years they get 1 mil raise per season, but if the contract is over 4 seasons its 1.5 million.
So if you got a guy for 100K last season and extend him 4 seasons. Next season his salary is 1.6 Mil. So best case if you have 35 players at 100K that comes out to 56 mil. Add in your franchise player and your at 66 Mil.
Im not sure how this can work.
Some one should create a spread sheet or something. I am friggin clueless.
basically its this:
4 years or under = 1 Mil per season (100K, 1.1mil, 2.1 Mil, 3.1 Mil)
5 years or more = 1.5 Mil per season (100K 1.6 Mil, 3.1 Mil, 4.6Mil...etc)
Which means the primary players everyone will keep will be 500K-100K players. And that almost all players selected in rounds 1-6 will be FA. Most people will only be able to keep 1 MAYBE 2 of their 3Mil or better players.
if I get a chance i could create a spreadsheet but the sheet EB sent us will also work if you plug in your #'s over 5 years
Yeah its going to be tough for anyone to keep 2 or more players from the first 5-6 rounds.
this is where things will end up evening out on teams I doubt anyone will consistently be in the playoffs every year
so the first pick in the stocking draft is 10 million too?
yep $10 Mil I will probably be skipping that round cant imagine too many good players being available
I probably wont make an aquisition until the 10th round or so.
I'm glad you brought this up.
I may have to bow out of this league, as this was not what I intended to happen. If I have to give back 5 or 6 of my top players, then last year was for nothing. I sent a PM to Eb and once he gets back, I'll discuss it w/ him.
This is why I feel if you have to increase salaries $1 mil a year if you sign players to long term contracts that the salary cap must increase each year otherwise we have to sign a bunch of 1 year contracts or keep a few players long term which really isnt realistic I guess we really didnt understand this in the inaugraul draft or otherwise alot of us would have been wiser in that draft
Originally Posted by R. Rich
rich you can expose your players to the FA draft and bring them back at lower prices, trust me Daunte Culpepper will not be paid $10 mil next year but I would consider bringin him back for a lower amt
I tend to agree with the general concensus. Increasing salaries by 1 million is a bit much. My whole point of drafting a bunch of later round guys was so they'd be cheap down the road. However, a 100K guy's salary is 1.1 million next year, which is ridiculous. I think the salary increases need to be adjusted somehow.
Well its a catch 22. If you lower it then everyone gets anyone cheap.
It will force you to be a bit more creative cap wise. And im not sure but this may not impact team til the 2007 season. I.e
If you have a 100K player ad you sign him to a 4 year deal this year, he may still be at 100K this coming season THEN 1.1 mil the followng season.
But there are stipulations of what your future cap can be at as well.
I might adopt a win now mentality. As Rich said its going to be tough to keep a young core of guys together. I will say this Ed Reed is worth 10M.
I think the salary increases this upcoming year.
except rookies
My point is that I shouldn't have to do that. And even if I do, I'll probably lose a few of them. That shouldn't be the case. I spent a lot of time evaluating the team I wanted, and considering this news, I should've just gone into this w/ a fantasy football "win now/draft the best players" mentality, since for this game, you can't do anything other than that. It's just not what I signed up for.
It's okay though. I do have the software Eb's using for the sims, and I may join an already established league where they actually do head to head games over the internet. I may also try to form a league like our BZFL, but where the salary cap isn't as ridiculous. I mean, you couldn't even draft a player per round and stay w/in the cap restrictions (going by the free agent scale of how players' salaries were slotted per round). That's crazy.
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