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Originally Posted by MEspo
Is there was any way to set a hard salary cap? Sorry if this question has an obvious answer, but I haven't bought the game yet.
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Originally Posted by MogulChamp
I am assuming that to set a hard cap in the rules setup, you just leave soft cap blank?
The two options:
Soft Cap (% above payroll)
Tax above soft cap (%)
Are not listed anywhere in the manual. Can anyone explain how these work?
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Basically, you can have no cap, a soft cap (luxury tax), or a hard cap. This is determined by the choices you make in the lines of the financial rules section shown below.
The very first line, Salary Cap, is how you set a hard cap. It's default is $0, which means no hard cap. If you want a hard cap, put in, say $100,000,000. If a team is currently over that (at startup or after initial draft) that's ok, but it won't let you sign FA's, extensions, or aquire new salary in trades until you're under it. This is a hard cap.
The Revenue Sharing dropdown is how you can specify a soft cap. If you select luxury tax here, then using the next line under it (Soft Cap) you select the soft cap number you want (this number is NOT dollars, it's a percentage of average payroll) such as say 125. 125 means teams teams with payrolls more than 25% above average are subject to the tax.
As an example, if your league's average payroll was $100,000,000, then teams with payrolls over $125,000,000 would be subject to the tax. If your league's average payroll was $50,000,000 then teams with payrolls over $62,500,000 would be subject to the tax, etc.
Then, the next line under this (Tax Above Soft Cap), sets the percantage of the tax to be assessed. Put in a number here (say 20) and that means 20% of payroll above the Soft Cap % is collected. As an example, if our soft cap is 125 and our average payroll is $100,000,000 like the example above and our Tax above soft tax is 25, then anything over $125,000,000 is taxed at 25%. If you were the Yankees with a payroll of $225,000,000, then you are $100,000,000 over the limit and would owe 25% of that, in this case you would owe $25,000,000 in luxury tax. This is a soft cap.
If you want no cap, then leave the Salary Cap (hard cap) line at $0, and in the line next to Revenue Sharing select either "no revenue sharing" or "set percentage of income".
Hope that helps.