Total Noob Contract Questions

[Scoobz0202]

Ok. I love the NFL. I have watched it since I was 5 or 6. I am 17. I just watch it..follow standings..stats..nothing else. Finally, now that I invested in Front Office Football I realized I need to know this shit. So..if anybody will help me out with these questions about contracts and stuff I will appreciate it.

I am in week 6 of the first season with the Chiefs.

Maximum Cap Value Avail: 15,170,000

Trent Green - 37,820,000 in 7 years.

The main question is the whole boxed part of his Negotiate Salary window.

The four rows..Current Salary..Current Bonus..Requesting...and Cap Cost.

1.) His current salary goes up year by year..in his first year he gets only 660,000, a 2,010,000 Bonus. If I cut him do I pay THE REST of his contract or what?

2.) What is the Cap Cost row?

3.) Say.. he was requesting the 37 mill contract now..but my cap room avail is only 15 mil.. It seems every team is around that cap room.. I dont understand how they sign anybody. Since.. a 37 mil contract is obviously twice as much as the 15... I know I am missing something when dealing with this..I just get lost in the financials.

[Celeval]

Quick answers:

1. Cap Room is for a year. So Trent's $37m contract, in essence, has no relationship to the cap. What does is this:

$660,000 & a $2,010,000 Bonus

This is for this season, and amounts to $2,670,000 under this season's cap.

2. When cutting, the salary is not paid against the cap. What is paid, is the remainder of the bonus. So if there's a contract like this:

Y1: $1m salary, $1m bonus
Y2: $2m salary, $1m bonus
Y3: $3m salary, $1m bonus

Cutting this player in Y1 would amount to a $2m cap hit in Y1 (salary + bonus), and a $2m cap hit in Y2 ($1m Y2 bonus, $1m Y3 bonus).

Kevin

[Bee]

1. If you cut him your salary cap takes a hit of this year's bonus (+ possibly a portion of the salary depending on when you cut him). Next year you take the hit of the remaining bonus money for the entire contract.

2. That's how much his contract is counted against the salary cap. It's a combination of his yearly salary + his bonus spread out over the length of the contract.

3. The contract is spread out over the length of the contract, the only thing that counts against this year's salary cap is this year's salary cap cost (from your second question).