We must draft better...

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Originally Posted by Mattyk72

Still waiting for that cap hell...

How come this is hard to understand? We avoid every year by reworking contracts. Further moving the cap hits later in years. eventually you have to pay the contracts. Here is another article from a cap person



Teams also gain a degree of flexibility from the contract length and the early cheap years. This means that a player who in effect is being paid five or six million per year has less of an impact on the salary cap his first couple of seasons than in the outyears. Of course eventually you have to pay the piper. Often the length of the contract extends beyond the likely career of a given player, or the latter year salary levels are so high its obvious the player will be cut rather retained.

Such contracts are virtually certain to lead to “dead money” at some future date. Obviously we can only estimate what that will be for a given contract, but it’s still very real. This is what I mean by “cap overhang”: unamortized bonus money likely to become dead money in the future. In effect, teams are trading off the future for the present.