[Preds]

Originally Posted by Doggler

A couple of observations/comparisons to CDL - please clarify if I am misunderstanding.

1)Releasing players hurts more in SACD due to 20% of this years salary being applied (as opposed to 10% in CDL)

2)The salary increase structure is nicer to cheap players and more painful to stars than it is in the CDL, which leads me to believe that there would be downward pressure applied on the prices we should be willing to pay for said stars.

3)The presence of a taxi squad might actually make the first few 5th round picks more valuable than the last few 4th round picks.

4)Don't ever miss a deadline or else you're screwed for life.

5)Jack may not have paid a lot for his car insurance, but he sure paid a lot for his QBs and IDPs.

6)Eventually both our taxi and practice squads will be nearly full

7)The typical prudent dynasty move of not drafting rookie WRs because they take so long to develop doesn't as much apply here - most every WR that might ever be anything is usually on someones squad.

8)That Willie Parker sure is fast.

1. SACD has a Hard Cap and Soft Cap period. From April 1 till October 31st, it's the Hard Cap period, and any cap hit applies 100% against the current season (thus the full 20% cap hit plus any signing bonus penalty if it was a multi year deal). On November 1st, we transition into what we call the Soft Cap period, which splits the cap hit in half, with half against the current season, and the other half against the next season (like the CDL was year round).

2. Yes, SACD has a 10% salary increase for all contracts each year (plus any applicable bonuses earned each year for drafted players). CDL
was a flat 1 million increase (200 million cap) per player. What Doggs is saying is that in CDL, a guy paid say 50 million would go to 51 million the following year... if SACD's cap was the same, it'd be a 10% increase of that 50 million, thus 55 million in SACD, giving the annual increase more of an impact on the higher salary players. On the other end of the spectrum, in the CDL, since all contracts went up 1 million each year, a guy making the minnimum of 1 million in year one, would get 2 million in year 2, a 100% jump in salary, whereas in SACD, that same player would get 1.1 million in CDL dollars the following year. So yes... big long term contracts can be painful, whereas locking up a cheap diamond in the rough for a few years has serious merit (though remember the 5 year max contract per player at any given time).

3. Ask Dodgers what he did to me in the late 4th last year, I had 5.1, he snagged injured TE Kevin Everett in the late 4th just to keep him from hitting my Practice Sqaud. Shrewd move by Brian!

4. As Brian stated, we've relaxed the rules as participation has increased, and will continue to look at things from a good of the league view to not be totally inflexible.

5. Nice Gieco reference . FTR Brian, Jack = Keepers (whose team DOggs is taking over), friend of Doggs from another league.


6. Yep, you'll either need to promote or release each year. That's what the system is designed to do.

7. Most any player of potential gets drafted, but you'll still find some gems on the wire each year as well, especially as teams lose patients or unheralded FA's make an unexpected impact.

8. FWP=OVERRATED. There I said it... care to challenge the issue?