*Salary Cap Proposal

[ErMurazor]

so the 2017 salary cap figure is $167 million for 53 players. Our teams consist of 40 players, but if we remove the bots, (11 offense, 11 defense, 2 special, backups) we are looking at roughly 30 players and 10 bots or inactives when we are at a good capacity. the bots or inactives will take minimum contracts, so that is $5 million right there that NFL does not have to worry about. so taking the ration of 30/53 times the NFL salary ($167) would land us at $94.5 Million salary cap. Then we have to add back the inactives/bots, so that is an additional $5m which brings us to roughly $100 Million.  The average NSFL contract would be 2.5 M whereas the NFL would be $3.2 M. however, the average contract for active players would be $3.2 M. If we based this off of the 40 players, we would still be at a $3.2M per player contract, however the total cap would be $126M and the average per active player would be $4.0M per year.

Aside from this, I think we should install baseline rookie contracts based on where they were drafted, similar to how the NBA does it. each draft pick has a dollar amount and rookies can sign for up to 120% of the amount or downwards of 80% of the amount. The NFL does do this a little, but I could not find any good charts or values to help visualize what they do. stupid internet. by having a drafted rookie pay scale that diminishes the longer you wait to be drafted, it helps to motivate GMs to think about trading down to get a player to save a bit of cash rather than taking the pick now to save the hassle of trading. It will also give more relative worth to those picked higher in the draft.

Also, I think we need more levels of gear/training. if this means decreasing what we already have so the TPE doesnt get out of hand, fine. But with higher contracts bound to happen, some people will just be sitting on money with nothing to spend it on.

I definitely think it'd be cool if there was something relating to draft position. The only true benefit to being drafted early right now is personal pride. If they made it so players were rewarded in some way, people wouldn't tank their draft stock, etc. I thought it would be interesting if you draft position impacted how much TPE you got in rookie camp. But then the good would just get better. Right now, if you're a good player and you get drafted late it's better for your team because you're assuming they got another good player with the earlier pick.