Salary Cap?
Moderator: ballmark
Salary Cap?
Does the Salary Cap ever go up? it owuld make sense to increase it a certain percentage each season As FA sign and the salaries increase but the cap never does year after year it becomes hard to sign players Anyway If you release a player does that salary come off the books? What happens if your over the cap thru out the season? TY
Re: Salary Cap?
You raise several issues.
1. No, the cap never goes up. It becomes incumbent upon league ownership to keep bidding reasonable. If one commodity rises - say, SP - then you know that other commodities will be relatively cheaper (i.e., batters, RP). So in the end, it evens out. Your job as an owner is to gauge which commodity is hot and find the bargains and then build your team around that. It's quite challenging, really.
2. The only salary that comes off your books are when you release players who have not yet gone through the free agency process (under OS28). You can waive a player and if someone else signs him while he is on waivers, then that salary will come off your books. But if the player clears waivers, even if another team subsequently signs him, that player's salary will *remain* on your books.
3. Teams that are over the cap are tagged with both a performance hit, statistically, within game play and also receive fewer Improvement Chances throughout the season.
4. Also, if you have less than 40 players on your roster, you are taxed with a $0.05 penalty per player under. So say you are right at $80 million but with only 39 players on the roster. You then get the salary penalty of $0.05 and your total salary goes to $80.05 and then you get the performance/IC hit, as well.
1. No, the cap never goes up. It becomes incumbent upon league ownership to keep bidding reasonable. If one commodity rises - say, SP - then you know that other commodities will be relatively cheaper (i.e., batters, RP). So in the end, it evens out. Your job as an owner is to gauge which commodity is hot and find the bargains and then build your team around that. It's quite challenging, really.
2. The only salary that comes off your books are when you release players who have not yet gone through the free agency process (under OS28). You can waive a player and if someone else signs him while he is on waivers, then that salary will come off your books. But if the player clears waivers, even if another team subsequently signs him, that player's salary will *remain* on your books.
3. Teams that are over the cap are tagged with both a performance hit, statistically, within game play and also receive fewer Improvement Chances throughout the season.
4. Also, if you have less than 40 players on your roster, you are taxed with a $0.05 penalty per player under. So say you are right at $80 million but with only 39 players on the roster. You then get the salary penalty of $0.05 and your total salary goes to $80.05 and then you get the performance/IC hit, as well.