*Why being nice is ruining league parity

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is it worth discussing? sure. but opening up this box will also open up a discussion on what the new cap should be, which is worth discussing on its own already

Oof. This part here hits close to home. Especially with this draft class stacked on top of a potential reddit draft class coming. As someone who runs the entire budget on a fully active team, I can tell you that it is virtually impossible to have a fully active team without most of the players taking minimum contracts. We even have a pretty nice distribution of players nearing regression, players just entering their primes, and players just getting started and its still hard to make ends meet with a fully active roster. With the current cap situation, if every active started demanding 2-3m above minimum, no one would be able to field a full roster. The fact is with oline bots, there are 23 players per team you should be thinking of. 11 offense, 11 defense, 1 kicker. If everyone decides to take just 2m over minimum, you're looking at an average of 5m per player. Which would put you at 110m on the season. Our cap simply doesn't allow that scenario. People have to take minimum or near to it just to make team budgets work as we speak.