03-20-2012, 02:03 AM
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Re: Salary Cap Penalties
Different teams start with different cap space too, so that plays a role maybe. Also, a lot of the dynasties on this forum just starting haven't really gotten all that far enough in to start to hurt on the cap yet I think. It's a lot easier to absorb cap hits when you're first starting out and cleaning house with a lot of players. After 3-5 years, when you have a roster you like and start having to meet the demands of players as they want to resign, then it becomes harder because you have to start making real decisions on who to keep and who to let go. And if you have a lot of good players by that point, you'll be running pretty close to the cap most likely so you're less able to take even small hits to let a player go.
You can take pretty much any team out of the gates, release a bunch of players, and spend the first couple seasons signing big time free agents and draft picks, even trading up to get 2-3 first round picks if you want even with big cap hits those years. It's not til your team is built, and the contracts start coming back up, that things really get hairy. Honestly, a lot of times, you're better off taking a huge cap hit the first year to release a player like Russell than you are to try and release him a few years in when you have less room to play with. The smaller hit 4 years in can hurt you a lot more than the huge hit the first year because of all the talent you've accumulated in that time sometimes.
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