Hi, I'm new to this game, I wanted to ask for some general help with what I'm doing, but in particular one thing that confuses me is resigning players. I want to resign some of my expiring contracts, but every time I try to it wants me to pay for the 2024 season as well it seems, and says that I'm in negative cap, when next year's cap space should be over 30M

I just took a look at your roster, most of the players that are in the last year of their contract are probably not worth fretting about - they are either older or you -might- be able to sign them with the million dollars you have.

When you sign a player you are on the hook for the current year salary in the current year plus any bonus applied - so at the end of the season it's tough to make too many moves if your cap is tight. I think you're in good enough shape that you can let those guys walk and really start building your roster next year. Just be sure to sign your final-year players next year early when you still have some wiggle room.

Okay, got it. That's weird though that I can't make deals for next year beginning this year.

Ultimately the goal is to make it so you can't keep 100% of your great players from year to year and have to make a decision on who you pursue - which will feed free agency with more than scrubs.

But as you sign those great players from year to year, you have no money to pursue Free Agency and have to accept nothing but scrubs

The idea here is that it would create more parity by making it difficult to build and maintain the super teams you see in so many leagues. The issue I see at hand here is that rookie contracts are still way out of whack for that kind of system. Pick 31 should not be making pretty much what pick 1 does.

As well as getting beat in a third round bust. The same hierarchy should take place for rooks. Alot for top ten players . ...if you bust there , we'll that a bad pick, but missing on a late second should not be a pick that put you millions in debt if it didn't work out. If you hit on a later pick well that like r. Wilson....great pick , but be ready to give him the money earned at the retructure .

Still, our system is very lenient towards great players.... as no will ever hit fa cause the restructure is so low compared to the nfl. But using rooks as an example a qb taken second overall will demand 10 mil in bonus...while IRL trubisky demanded 18 mil.

Our system is very soft and linear in the decline rate of salary for rooks as the nfl drops off at an alarming rate beyond the early second.

Also, contributing is the safety of draft picks....a top ten is a lock and there nothing after three rounds. To combat this jdb has added a boost to later picks non move able ratings. So we can get some speed later in the draft. I think that will help as some will gamble for that speed, but I cannot remember if he going to push through a newer system that enhances the volatility rating of players that get passed up early in the draft . In order to get some nice players later....hopefully some probowl talent will come out of round five.