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tworoosters

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A "Go for it" Cap option

January 15, 2011 at 06:37PM View formatted

I think it would be interesting to have a one year "Go for it" option with the cap.

An owner could declare that a season was his "Go for it" year and exceed the cap by up to 20% that year, the down side is that his cap would be reduced by whatever he went over for each of the next [b]two seasons[/b], so if I "went for it" in 1965 and spent $90 million my performance wouldn't be affected that year but my cap for 1966 & 1967 would be reduced to $70 million.

Yankees102

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January 15, 2011 at 06:41PM View BBCode

Hmmm. Might be interesting to try. But lets continue your example and say you went for it in 1965, but the option is automatically turned off for, say, the next 4 seasons, including 66 and 67, so you could use it again in 1969. And would you declare "Go for it" before the bidding period, or after, if you went over and didnt want a penalty?

[Edited on 1-15-2011 by Yankees102]

Shaheen

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January 19, 2011 at 12:19AM View BBCode

Maybe this is a way to take a percent of money that wasn't spent under the cap and let you carry it to the couple of years. Something like 50% of money under the cap (the 80 million number) can be used in the next year, 30% in year 2 and 20% in year 3. So if you spent 60 million in 1960, 61 and 62, then you could have a cap number of 100 in 1963. (and 90 in 1964, 84 in 1965 and back to 80 in 1966 ).

Shaheen

BigMacAttack

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January 19, 2011 at 12:33AM View BBCode

I think it could be an interesting option but you'd have to be careful people didn't abuse it by "going for it" and then bailing on the league.

I'm not sure that I'd be in favour of "storing up" cap space though, in my opinion it would just be too easy to abuse by going with a young team and then when they are ready for prime time using your stored cap to keep a bunch of them around.

I'd also agree that you should only be able to go for it so often and think that you would need to declare before FA or maybe even at some point the season before (like by the trade deadline or something).

tm4559

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January 19, 2011 at 06:07PM View BBCode

adding on under the cap dollars from one season to the cap for another season just gets you back to the same old tanky dogshit salary leagues were supposed to get you away from.