Pretty cool salary tool

[bvanthielriceyoung]

Salary Cap Calculator - Over the Cap

It shows you some what if scenarios and what the cap would be like. Definitely worth a look!

 

[Gold Rush 86]

So I cut Rogers, Dahl and Snyder. Traded James and had Gore take a pay cut down to 4 million a year. Then resigned all these palyers and still had 6 million left over for this years salary cap.

Boldin 5 million a year
Whitner 4.1 million a year
Brown 3.6 million a year
Dawson 1.2 million a year
Wright 1 million a year
Osgoom 900K a year
Cox 700K a year
Wilhote 600K a year

 

[MHSL82]

So I cut Rogers, Dahl and Snyder. Traded James and had Gore take a pay cut down to 4 million a year. Then resigned all these palyers and still had 6 million left over for this years salary cap.

Boldin 5 million a year
Whitner 4.1 million a year
Brown 3.6 million a year
Dawson 1.2 million a year
Wright 1 million a year
Osgoom 900K a year
Cox 700K a year
Wilhote 600K a year

Wilhote for 600K? That's 10K too much!

Just kidding. The same joke could have been made by calling it a steal because he's worth 10K more.

 

[MHSL82]

When doing this game, remember that money under the cap can be rolled over into next year. It is NOT use it or lose it. You can't borrow from future caps directly, of course. (You'd have to do it by backloading money, whether it be guaranteed or not.)

 

[Gold Rush 86]

I cut Dahl and just looked at bleacher report and he took a 525K pay cut from 1.35 million down to 825K. So take him off the cut list.

 

[bvanthielriceyoung]

When doing this game, remember that money under the cap can be rolled over into next year. It is NOT use it or lose it. You can't borrow from future caps directly, of course. (You'd have to do it by backloading money, whether it be guaranteed or not.)

In regards to that, do you know what the floor is for the cap? I know when the league and players signed the original deal, they had a cap floor implemented that would go up every year I believe. (ex. have to spend 80% of the cap when the deal was first in place, 85% next yr, 90% the next. etc)

 

[bvanthielriceyoung]

I played around with this tool also for the Seahawks to see how our main competitors are looking.

Despite there salary cap not looking good at first glance, they have a lot of favorable contracts that are easy to cut and free up space(Miller, clemons, and Rice for examples). They seem to be in pretty good shape.

seahawks link http://overthecap.com/calculator/?Team=seahawks