reason i am making this thread is 7 of the 9 open teams are in CAP trouble and it doesnt look good for league and also thought i would post this in the hopes that JDB you would fix in case Brendosault cant fix it or he doesnt log in before league spins which would make league go from 0-100 in 0.9 seconds considering how bad things are just look BELOW.


their cap room





Miami Knights = https://rundfined.myfootballnow.com/team/6
Room under cap: $-22,931,119
57 total players

Middletown Steel Men = https://rundfined.myfootballnow.com/team/3
Room under cap: $-17,003,639
52 total players

Buffalo Sabres = https://rundfined.myfootballnow.com/team/21
Room under cap: $-13,021,284
42 total players

Scotland Scotsmen = https://rundfined.myfootballnow.com/team/30
Room under cap: $-12,623,191
54 total players

Cleveland Indians = https://rundfined.myfootballnow.com/team/18
Room under cap: $-12,191,277
53 total players

Pittsburgh Penguins = https://rundfined.myfootballnow.com/team/22
Room under cap: $-8,148,740
50 total players

Calgary Axemen = https://rundfined.myfootballnow.com/team/10
Room under cap: $-3,888,613
43 total players

San Francisco Giants = https://rundfined.myfootballnow.com/team/19
Room under cap: $144,025
54 total players

Greeley Stampede = https://rundfined.myfootballnow.com/team/1
Room under cap: $108,733
47 total players

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The Punisher: Roster Management Vigilante. :)

Yeah this could be a huge problem for the league and it's a shame this happened because the active owners in it including myself really enjoy this league.

1 of them Middletown Steel Men ( https://rundfined.myfootballnow.com/team/3 ) might be fixed by Otterpop because he has 12 pending cuts though 11 contract offers so maybe that is 1 less team in danger.

Maybe we just need to have another 6 people to join and take over the damaged teams and maybe they would do same thing Otterpop is doing and maybe this crisis would be averted.

Co-sign. Love the league. Maybe something can be figured out by JDB to fix cap situations of AI teams so they're viable for GM takeovers.

only 4 of them dont have a owner

Buffalo Sabres = https://rundfined.myfootballnow.com/team/21
Cleveland Indians = https://rundfined.myfootballnow.com/team/18
Pittsburgh Penguins = https://rundfined.myfootballnow.com/team/22
Calgary Axemen = https://rundfined.myfootballnow.com/team/10

so maybe if another 4 people join league and take those teams over maybe this crisis will be averted without JDB's help

That is the primary problem caused for the roster of a team that is managed by the AI. New contracts for existing players are automatic, handled by the "Neg Wiz", and in this case, Neg stands for negative impact on salary cap. Then, once the sal cap is exceeded, the AI mgr starts cutting based on highest saving, which in most cases means the top player on the team gets cut next.

The only way I've found to repair an AI damaged roster with little or no salary cap, is to cut & replace as many overpaid players with minimum salary/bonus FA's that have as good as or equal key attributes, like speed at RB. One thing you can count on when it comes to the AI manager, it goes by the AI default rating, not key attributes. So, the more players with $500k or more salaries you can cut and replace with $160k FA's, the more sal cap you can pick up.

only 2 of them dont have a owner

Buffalo Sabres = https://rundfined.myfootballnow.com/team/21
Pittsburgh Penguins = https://rundfined.myfootballnow.com/team/22

I've taken over Scotland and got them back under the cap but am now a few players under the minimum roster count.

I've offered a few minimum contracts to free agents, if successful will they be signed before the game or will the game automatically sign players to stupid contracts and possibly put the team back in cap trouble ?

I think there is a bug of sorts. Whether it be just a visual error or its actually complicating the algorithm to make even more of a poor AI/human choices.

For now to keep it simple my team home page says 4.5 million in cap room but when I go to sign players it says 2.5 mill. Why?


I ask because the tools available are not the info I used to clean up the Indians in the same league with one spin.

Yes, the AI works as gdads explained and I kinda cleaned my team that way. They were burdened with a blend of poor draft contracts and heavy bonus laden contracts buy users and or the AI through rectructures or going after FAs.

This had me looking at the bonuses too! One guy was 2.8 on the cap, 1.6 for this year's dead cap and 3.2 on next.

According to my tools we were -12 for the cap with a dead money penalty of zero. On the team page After one spin we had +4.5 cap and 10 mil. for the dead money this year and we're on the hook for 15 mil. Next season due to these moves. IMO these are the important numbers to use.

Thus coming to my conclusion that the available money should show the same on the team page as well on the player card when you click on contract and have zero in a all the relevant settings.

The tools on the team page say you will save this much but no where is anything accounting or talking up number for final cap (or accurate available money ) or the dead money or the future dead cap until Sim has spun.

Seeing those numbers before hand would make navigation of choices easier, and at least an explanation of why or which number is right for available money. Is the one on the team home page accurate or when you click on contract on the player card ? .

Still, I wonder if the algorithm is using different available money number in any of its calculations ?

Cause really your buying time by moving money around till you have more available cap. The dead cap is crucial to my teams success now. We keep a bunch of higher paid players, but they are pretty good.

Eating dead cap for next season allows for movement of picks to open up more cap room if I want to hold on to to the two solid DTs and Gs that were aquire through FA a few years back. A decent QB will be up for a restructuring soon as well. All of which we will need money for if drafts are weak.

What would the AI have done I am not sure, and I may not understand the correct use of the tools available , but some things seem off here. Not just the AI choices as gdads methods would be better because the AI won't trade away the same guy they would cut.