*The State of the Cap Space, -ish

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With each team rostering an average of 24 players, that leaves an average of just 3.5 million, per player. That’s honestly kinda sad. In my opinion, that number deserves to go up to 4-5 million. The fact that the top league players are only taking up 6-7% of their cap space because teams don’t have enough money to support their gigantic roster of actives is unfortunate.

This is the first article I've seen to mildly convince me that the cap should be raised. With jobs being fairly full at this point, I'm sure the casual player would want a good way to earn some money that doesn't involve media/graphics/Twitter. Not that we shouldn't somewhat force players to write media and stuff to make money, but lower earning players shouldn't have their contracts hampered by the roster sizes of their team.

There definitely needs to be a balance between raising the cap dramatically so that players can get a little greedy and preventing a possible super team. Whether it's by adjusting minimums or forcing players over 1000 TPE to switch over to a 5M minimum, there does need to be some sort of preventative mechanism to keep all the high TPE players from going to one team on all minimum contracts thanks to the raised cap.