So you don't get things like this:

Total Cap: $132,300,000
Dead Cap: $99,167,118
Room under cap: $7,741
Cap used next year: $351,557,465
Dead cap next year: $323,501,114
Players under contract: 49

If people could limit the damage to 75% going in to the rollover, they could at least draft people and sign cheapie free agents to get through the next season. You also would no longer need the last-minute workaround that's going on now. This poor guy is screwed no matter what.

Wow! I didn't think even the AI was capable of ruining a team that bad.

it was a person who did that = https://ncaa.myfootballnow.com/team/29

I would say partly. But it is still nice to see he can/will compete in a competitive league in which you are just there to report on vacancies ! (Sad existence)

I dont know if this was the intent of the post (or maybe just an added thought) why not if in the current season you have $10m in available cap and $15m expected next season you carry $10 of that in the current season?

It could be done that way. The intent of the original post was to keep these teams from becoming permanent orphans. Even though this team was human-run and was an extreme example, there are many instances of the AI making a situation worse and worse, thus making certain that the AI will continue running such a team into the ground. It might be good to show prospective owners a little light at the end of the tunnel, because nobody wants to be thrown on the scrap heap forever. I thought the existing solution could be adapted in a more constructive way.

The contract wizard strikes again.

I think what this person did was sign a bunch of expensive free agents and then he traded them for high draft picks. That's fine as far as it goes, but he incurred a big pile of dead cap from the players he had just traded. So he tried to break the game and he failed. He should get some kind of a punishment for that, but not a permanent one as it is now.

First, now that I know which specific situation the original cut/paste came from, it didn't happen nearly as maliciously (or even intentionally) as you seem to think. Another case of people not involved in the specific situation should really refrain from commenting on the situation.

Second, to your more general point, there is already a mechanism in place to "negotiate" the excessive cap as it heads into next season. I forget the exact rule, but the system will forgive a certain amount of the dead cap leaving him with at most 85% of the season's cap or something like that. So, the damage is already limited, just not in the way you were expecting.