Contract Extension
 

This is with 6.0b.

I'm trying to understand the cap calculation when doing in season extensions.

It is right before the FOF Bowl. I have LB who is costing 4.9 MM against the cap this season and his contract expires this season. I go to offer a new contract and he wants the following three year contract:

Signing Bonus: 4.94 MM
Year 1: 1.23 MM
Year 2: 3.7MM
Year 3: 4.42.

Year 1 cap cost says 4.2 MM. Yet the message says this contract will cost 1.64 MM under the cap and you don't have that much room. That is true, but his cap cost this year is less than the extension cap cost. What am I missing?

new year salary + new pro rated signing bonus + old prorates signing bonus = 1.64m more than his cap charge before the new deal.

Except:

Old Bonus was 1.33 MM + 1.23 MM in salary plus 1.65 MM (4.94/3) = 4.2MM which is less than 4.9 MM cap charge today. Also cap cost column says 4.2MM.

that aint right, then.

The documentation doesn't make this clear, nor does the screen, but once a salary is paid, it's paid. If you lower the year 0 salary after the season ends, it doesn't change the calculation.

In FOF, you pay each player 1/17th of his salary each week. So that offer would add 1.64m to the cap.

In the NFL, however, once week 11 hits, any renegotiation can't affect the current season's cap. So that would probably be legal in the NFL, but you'd have a higher cap hit in future seasons.

This is the same as in previous versions right?

it would appear as if jim is describing a (much needed) change?

Thanks Jim.

I agree with the recommendation to make renogotiations late in the season only impact the next year's cap. It is too hard to extend your players.

For example, Seneca Walllace just signed an extension and that bonus only impacts next year, right?