Cap accounting error?

[mrbyte]

Ok just joined an online lge and decided I would put my salary cap on spreadsheet
now if I'm correct all of the salary + bonus figures (labeled 'CAP COST') plus dead money from previous contracts totaled together should be my total cap cost for the season?

so taking it away from the current cap figure should equal the cap room figure from FOF?
but it doesn't i'm $850,000 out ?????
now I realize I might have made an error (though I have checked every individual salary figure twice) but assuming I havent and the above is correct has anyone else noticed their cap to be wrong.

Tonight when I get home I'll go through it all again and triple check

UPDATE

Ok checked my figures at work

CAP this season $130,400,000
Total in cap cost $106,420,000
Total dead money this season $18,070,000

Total cap cost $124,490,000
my figure for cap room = $ 5,910,000

FOFs figure for cap room $ 6,760,000

a difference of $850,000

All above figures are independent of the figures at home BUT exactly the same result
What am I missing?

[Ben E Lou]

Here's a general hint: thousands of people purchased and played FOF7 for more than a year before you purchased it. (And fwiw, it was one of the least buggy releases I've seen of any text sim.) If the cap were calculating incorrectly all this time, someone would have noticed it long before you. ;)

You're probably counting too many players. Check the help file. Top 51.

[mrbyte]

Thanks Ben
it will be that top 51 thing where the error is.
but if I dont know where the error is I cant get my spread to work. I wasnt suggesting that FOF is wrong (though that wasn't impossible no matter how many thousands of copies were sold)
but the figures didnt tally and I couldn't see why

So only the top 51 salaries count?

[mrbyte]

yep thats what I was missing bottom two for salary on the roster comes to that $850,000 that was missing

thanks again