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Originally Posted by MIJB#19
Two questions:
* How'd you come up with these particular numbers?
* For the speed of the dynastry, won't it be easier to not go with the 3.4 and 2.2 kind of stuff, but keep 5 tiers or some such? (something like 10%, 7.5%, 4.0%, 2.0%, 1.0%) Or are they printed in memory already?  |
1. I did a data-dump from WOOF and CCFL (25% cap reduction leagues) a while ago of all FA signings rated in the 45-55 overall rating range and just figured out the averages from MP. And then I bumped up QB and WR considerably. Those are subject to change when I have actual cap room.
2. Neither. It wouldn't be easier and I don't have them memorized. What I do have is a very simple spreadsheet that does this for me. I only have to make one entry at the beginning of FA each year: the in-game salary cap. From there it tells me exactly how much a 3-year deal has to be to a FA of each position:
| SALARY CAP | 153.1 | |
| Effective Cap | 102.6 |
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| RATE | POS | TOT CONTRACT | CAP HIT
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| 0.075 | QB | 23.08 | 7.7 |
| 0.034 | RB | 10.46 | 3.5 |
| 0.013 | FB | 4.00 | 1.3 |
| 0.018 | TE | 5.54 | 1.8 |
| 0.1 | WR | 30.77 | 10.3 |
| 0.039 | OT | 12.00 | 4.0 |
| 0.025 | OG | 7.69 | 2.6 |
| 0.022 | C | 6.77 | 2.3 |
| 0.008 | P | 2.46 | 0.8 |
| 0.013 | K | 4.00 | 1.3 |
| 0.028 | DE | 8.62 | 2.9 |
| 0.028 | DT | 8.62 | 2.9 |
| 0.032 | OLB | 9.85 | 3.3 |
| 0.027 | ILB | 8.31 | 2.8 |
| 0.042 | CB | 12.92 | 4.3 |
| 0.027 | S | 8.31 | 2.8 |
Column 4 tells me how much cap room at a quick glance, then when I enter the actual contract, I look at the third column to tell me the total value it needs to be. I've messed around with this idea in non-posted SP careers, and it's much faster than coming up with contracts on my own.
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Originally Posted by QuikSand
Quick analysis: once again, challenging loses out to interesting
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So far, yes. However, it turns out that a comment I made last season about cap relief coming was dead wrong: I had forgotten to put the reduction in for 2014, so I was off by over $50M on my cap room for this year; instead of starting off $20M over the cap, I'm $31M under. I'm about to do this season, and I think there will be significant cuts this year. We'll see where this goes...