Monday, September 10, 2007

Capology - Proposed Rule Change

I've been hearing (g)rumblings about the amount of trading flexibility that has been in place for the past couple of years. While I haven't heard any direct complaints, I imagine that it would go something like "What is the point of a salary cap if I can trade cap room with someone or simply agree to cover the difference in salaries?"

I've had these same thoughts myself. So I called upon my mentor, ScrewyLouie, to help me come up with a new plan for Superdraft. Essentially, the new plan works alot more like the actual NHL system.
  • Salaries will be accrued on a weekly basis. Each week, 1/27 th of your roster's salary will be spent.
  • At the start of the season you must be at or below the salary cap number, but later on in the season you can be above the cap number as long as you have saved room for it.
  • Each week, I will provide an "available roster face value", based on the salary that has been accrued for your team to date. The "available roster face value" is the salary that you could take on in the next week and still be under the cap for the year.
  • You are no longer allowed to trade "cash" or "cap space".
  • Drops will be treated as buy-outs. At any point before the trade deadline, you may buy out the remainder of a player's salary. The buy-out price will be 1/2 of the remaining salary owed to the player for the season or $450K, whichever is greater.
  • As before, rosters will be frozen as of the NHL trade deadline.

I know this sounds confusing but I have created a spreadsheet that will be used to keep track of this for every team. A prototype is available for you to view and to try out by clicking on the title of this post or by clicking here.

Within the spreadsheet, you can change anything that is typed in bold. An example is shown in the spreadsheet where the owner was able to trade a $1M guy for a $5.5M guy at the end of the season.

Please review and let me know what you think, in the comments of course.

3 comments:

Barry said...

There was doubt in my mind as to how this could work in a fantasy draft but after a detailed review I have to say it’s a good system. It was especially useful to be able to play with the xls and get a good understanding of how it works. I vote yes for ‘capology’. I still wish there was a way to trade cap room; I guess draft pick trades will become more popular, just like the big show, Game on.

Broker Bill said...

I am fine with it. If Greg keeps explaining it to me for the next month on the drive into work I will eventually understand his spreadsheet voodoo

Beer-Leaguer said...

just tell how much it is gonna cost me (sounds like a conversation with my wife - now that's voodoo). Great job Otter - works for me.