Salary Cap Question

[bioeagle]

I'm running a simple 6 team league. At the beginning of year 3, every team is at LEAST $35 million over the salary cap and UNDER the 53 man roster. Is this how it is supposed to be? I really don't understand.

[bioeagle]

I guess what I am asking is how do I run/set up a realistic league where the teams can afford a full roster without going 30-50% OVER the salary cap in two seasons? How should I set it up?

[brooks_piggott]

It's not really easy for us to say. Take your cap, divide it by 53 and that's the avg contract you're shooting for. If you have too high a min and max contract then players will ask for a lot more and blow through the cap. The most common mistake I see is for people to set maximum contracts to 30-50 million to mirror the NFL. That will NOT work in DDSPF as that effectively raises the rates for all players by 300% but I doubt you're raising the cap the same amount. The game doesn't have a good way of handling 30 million maxes for QB and 4 million maxes for everyone else.