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JeffR · 11-01-2019, 03:16 PM

Cap Space remaining is always expressed in terms of full-season cap hit you can add. So, if you've been under the cap all year, the amount you have to spend will grow as the season goes along. The alternative would be to start tracking things like accumulated cap hit for each player and show potential acquisitions in terms of cap hit for the remainder of the season. Mathematically, it gets you the exact same result, but it's a lot less intuitive to grasp when you're looking at the numbers, because your frame of reference for the cap hit values has to keep shifting throughout the season. When you're 50 games into the season, it's a lot easier to remember that "$5 million is a lot of cap hit" rather than "$1,951,219.51 million is a lot of cap hit when you have 32 games left to play."

11-01-2019, 03:16 PM	#2
JeffR FHM Producer Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Kelowna, BC Posts: 17,419	Cap Space remaining is always expressed in terms of full-season cap hit you can add. So, if you've been under the cap all year, the amount you have to spend will grow as the season goes along. The alternative would be to start tracking things like accumulated cap hit for each player and show potential acquisitions in terms of cap hit for the remainder of the season. Mathematically, it gets you the exact same result, but it's a lot less intuitive to grasp when you're looking at the numbers, because your frame of reference for the cap hit values has to keep shifting throughout the season. When you're 50 games into the season, it's a lot easier to remember that "$5 million is a lot of cap hit" rather than "$1,951,219.51 million is a lot of cap hit when you have 32 games left to play."