AI Managing Cap Space

[Karim]

In my SP-career, the Salary Cap is $149,500,000 in 2014. I started with an allocation draft.

The Steelers have $135,680,000 in Lost Cap Room, only one player signed.

San Fran is the next worst team with $70,570,000 in Lost Cap Room with only 8 players signed.

Oakland is the best with only $50,000 in Lost Cap Room with 25 players under contract.

AI Lost Cap Room:
0-5 million (5)
5-10 million (8)
10-25 million (9)
25-50 million (7)
50-100 million (1)
100 million+ (1)

Are other people also seeing these extremes of bad cap management?

[Dutch]

Yes, not sure if this broke somewhere along the way or has always been attrocious, but it's definately not just your career.

[Prinzar]

The odd thing is the AI won't trade anybody with heavy cap costs, but will just release them and take the hit

[weboes]

Did those teams draft a bunch of old guys that retired?

[redfox000]

Did those teams draft a bunch of old guys that retired?

No. About every season i have a team that for some reason releases almost all of it's players and plays a year or two with all rookie UFA's. On the plus side, those teams usually do turn around and become a good team in 3-4 seasons.

[MalcPow]

I think this is magnified by some of the allocation draft contracts, but yeah, there are usually a couple teams who do ridiculous things and murder their seasons if you're paying close attention to the rest of the league.

[lastcat3]

I havn't played the 6.4 version enough yet to see what the situation is with it. But in the 6.2 version I noticed that the computer teams would way overpay about four or five players (in line of paying them about 20 million a year or more) as a result of bidding wars with eachother. And would get into cap hell because of that.

Instead of choosing to say I'm not willing to pay this much for a certain superstar player they say they will pay whatever it takes to get him.