02-05-2004, 04:06 AM
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We'll waste him too.
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Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Sioux Falls, SD
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Re: Please help me understand cap penalties!
If you trade a player, all of his signing bonus gets "accelerated" to the next year's salary cap. If you release a player it does the same thing.
Here's an example...
You sign John Doe to a 5 year contract and give him a 5 million dollar signing bonus. His signing bonus counts 1 million toward your cap space every year. Now, after the first year you decide to trade him. The remaining 4 million of the signing bonus will get counted against your salary cap the next season.
General rule of thumb, don't give a player a big signing bonus unless you are absolutely sure that you want to keep them until the end of their contract.
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