Salary Cap space lost in Franchise Mode

[Benglez]

I started a franchise with the Cardinals, I made a fantasy team very high in salary cap, so I put my file in Finn's editor and set the Salary Cap to $109 millions, I transfered the file to my Xbox, and played 2 pre-season games, then I started to make trades to open salary cap space in order to renegotiate Matt Leinart's contract (in the rosters I used It had only 1 year remaining contract)

After I renegotiated Leinart's contract suddenly my Cap for 2004 was set down to $93.35 millions , and only had $7.97 millions of space remaining. I checked out all the other non user controled teams and they all have $109 millions as a Cap for 2004. I transfered the file back to the editor and checked the Salary Cap, and it was still $109 millions and the Cardinals had $23.62 millions of space marked in the editor. I changed the Cardinals to CPU controled team, and changed Tampa Bay to user controled team, and transfered the file againg to my Xbox, and then the CPU controled Cardinals had $109 millions Cap, and sure enough all the other teams including my user controled Bucs also had the $109 millions Cap. It seems that only when I control the Cardinals is when I lose that Cap Space. I also noted that the Cardinals proyection for the following years Cap is like this: 2004:$93.35m, 2005:$110.41m, 2006:$111.85m, 2007:$113.30m, 2008:$114.77m and 2009:$116.27m

The Leinart contract was balanced, 4 years 4.27 millions/year with 50% bonus, the only reason I can think of is maybe the CPU charge me for the complete bonus and took it from the $109 millions? But, why that situation doesn't reflects when the Cardinals are CPU controled?

What do you think?

Any help would be appreciated it...

P.S. Sorry for my bad english....

[Benglez]

Just one more question: When you trade a player, the game apply the Penalty against your cap?, I thought that only happened when you release the player.

[thejackal25]

Quote: Originally Posted by Benglez

Just one more question: When you trade a player, the game apply the Penalty against your cap?, I thought that only happened when you release the player.

Yes, when you trade a player you are assessed the same penalty as if you released him. This was the first 2k football game to get it right.