Majority of teams excessively over the cap

[daltontr]

I'm just getting ready to start my eighth season as GM and there isn't a single team under the cap. That's not unusual, but there are twenty teams paying excessive luxury taxes. Something seems amiss. Take Atlanta for example: Their payroll is $280.1 million, which is $131.4 million OVER the cap and they are paying $98.7 million in luxury tax. They have a payroll which is nearly double the current cap of $148.7 million. Being over the cap is one thing, but there seems to be far too many teams that are excessively over the cap and I can't imagine this a good thing.

Should I increase the cap manually or simply keep playing?

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TEAMS PAYING LUXURY TAX
Team | Tax (Millions)
 MIN | $5.9
 MIL | $12.0
 WAS | $12.8
 PHO | $13.2
 NYK | $14.2
 TOR | $17.8
 PHI | $26.9*
 SAS | $28.8*
 DAL | $34.2*
 ORL | $37.0*
 UTA | $37.4*
 IND | $41.0*
 DET | $44.4*
 NOP | $46.3*
 MIA | $47.4*
 LAC | $57.3*
 CHA | $58.4*
 CLE | $78.6*
 SAC | $81.3*
 ATL | $98.7*

* - Team salary exceeds $200 million, the current cap is $141 million.

[daltontr]

I was digging into this a little more and now I'm a little confused. The Atlanta Hawks CONTRACTS page the Team Salary is displayed as $280,185,835, but there are only nine players on the roster and the Total Salary below the player list shows it as $167,807,556. Is this because I haven't reached "Free Agency" yet and those FA salaries are still being counted?

[Gary Gorski]

Yes if you havent gone past the stage where the AI is going to renounce contracts then all those cap holds are still on the books