Hard Salary Cap

[oman19]

Is there a way to put a hard salary cap in place instead of a soft cap?

[William Foster]

Originally Posted by oman19

Is there a way to put a hard salary cap in place instead of a soft cap?

By hard cap you mean a set value for payroll that teams can't go above? Yes its in either options or rules.

[oman19]

Well I entered into the salary cap space 100,000,000 yet still 6 or 7 teams choose year after year to be over the cap and just pay the luxury tax....I noticed underneath there though it says soft cap so I wondered if I had to change those values to get my hard camp I want lol. What I'm looking for is rosters to be illegal if you go over the $100million hard salary cap I'm looking to set. Right now It seems just to be taxing those that choose to go over.

[oman19]

Yeah after looking closely it does seem to definitly just charging those teams a tax for what they are over. Is this because I have the soft cap set to 120..if so would me dropping it down to a 100 get me what I'm looking for?

[BMW]

I've never tried it myself, but what if you turn off Revenue Sharing? You have the ability to have:

No Revenue Sharing
Luxury Tax
Set % of Income

Setting No Revenue Sharing removes the Soft Cap in the options.

[oman19]

I'll start a new league to give it a try and let you know the results.

[oman19]

Thx I'm simming as I type this and thus far that seems to be working

[Broth32]

For the life of me CAN NOT get a league to start with a hard cap! I change the cap to 65 mil, generate new contracts, and hold an inaugural draft and team 1) has a 112 mil in salary and team 12 has a 38 mil salary. The media fixed contract is the same for every team.

Any thoughts on how to get this hard cap to work?

[Athletics17]

If you change to the hard salary cap or just drop the soft cap to a certain level. Will the players change theirs demands and adapt to the current level or will their be players you just can't afford because the asking price is too high.

[Broth32]

I have no clue what to do with the financial settings. Here is what i got after several years of simming:

Rank Team Payroll
1 Memphis Squalls $71,292,461
2 Brooklyn Buffalos $69,876,000
3 Austin Adversaries $68,435,124
4 Kansas City Furnace $67,850,770
5 Houston Sabrecats $65,863,462
6 Oakland Cougars $62,847,910
7 Seattle Bearcats $61,564,370
8 Dallas Rats $59,843,467
9 Virginia Beach Honeybees $55,706,368
10 Nashville Blue Oxen $55,141,920
11 Washington Smash $49,445,680
12 Sacramento Whitecaps $48,891,500
13 Manhattan Silver Hawks $47,127,500
14 Staten Island Mummies $44,399,880
15 Honolulu Tamarins $44,228,700
16 San Antonio Wizards $25,908,112

Rank Team Attendance
1 Dallas Rats 3,681,877
2 Houston Sabrecats 3,621,285
3 Seattle Bearcats 3,518,374
4 Austin Adversaries 3,471,422
5 Nashville Blue Oxen 3,443,207
6 Brooklyn Buffalos 3,380,048
7 Washington Smash 3,294,534
8 Staten Island Mummies 3,185,783
9 Oakland Cougars 3,165,657
10 Memphis Squalls 3,151,567
11 Honolulu Tamarins 2,854,996
12 Sacramento Whitecaps 2,826,871
13 Virginia Beach Honeybees 2,604,938
14 Manhattan Silver Hawks 2,396,686
15 Kansas City Furnace 2,255,305
16 San Antonio Wizards 2,247,886

Rank Team Gate Revenue
1 Dallas Rats $56,705,097
2 Houston Sabrecats $55,919,535
3 Nashville Blue Oxen $54,871,884
4 Austin Adversaries $52,181,090
5 Washington Smash $51,777,577
6 Seattle Bearcats $51,621,769
7 Brooklyn Buffalos $51,473,376
8 Staten Island Mummies $51,411,316
9 Oakland Cougars $51,182,225
10 Memphis Squalls $50,336,715
11 Honolulu Tamarins $43,935,557
12 Sacramento Whitecaps $43,769,084
13 Virginia Beach Honeybees $41,248,451
14 Manhattan Silver Hawks $39,019,145
15 Kansas City Furnace $38,116,927
16 San Antonio Wizards $36,877,836

Rank Team Media Revenue
1 Austin Adversaries $25,000,000
2 Memphis Squalls $25,000,000
3 Brooklyn Buffalos $25,000,000
4 Virginia Beach Honeybees $25,000,000
5 Nashville Blue Oxen $25,000,000
6 Dallas Rats $25,000,000
7 Sacramento Whitecaps $25,000,000
8 Manhattan Silver Hawks $25,000,000
9 Kansas City Furnace $25,000,000
10 Houston Sabrecats $25,000,000
11 Seattle Bearcats $25,000,000
12 San Antonio Wizards $25,000,000
13 Staten Island Mummies $25,000,000
14 Honolulu Tamarins $25,000,000
15 Oakland Cougars $25,000,000
16 Washington Smash $25,000,000

Rank Team Merchandising
1 Nashville Blue Oxen $32,973,083
2 Brooklyn Buffalos $31,916,103
3 Dallas Rats $31,498,875
4 Austin Adversaries $30,994,675
5 Houston Sabrecats $30,664,261
6 Seattle Bearcats $28,793,742
7 Washington Smash $27,562,741
8 Staten Island Mummies $27,385,945
9 Memphis Squalls $27,002,204
10 Oakland Cougars $26,679,561
11 Sacramento Whitecaps $25,107,617
12 Honolulu Tamarins $20,438,157
13 Manhattan Silver Hawks $17,401,084
14 San Antonio Wizards $16,155,725
15 Virginia Beach Honeybees $14,822,226
16 Kansas City Furnace $12,730,461

Rank Team Current Budget
1 Houston Sabrecats $183,784,121
2 Nashville Blue Oxen $172,382,106
3 Washington Smash $163,829,927
4 Virginia Beach Honeybees $162,726,761
5 Staten Island Mummies $128,366,621
6 Manhattan Silver Hawks $119,249,183
7 Oakland Cougars $118,215,908
8 Seattle Bearcats $112,254,621
9 Dallas Rats $105,297,227
10 Brooklyn Buffalos $98,797,467
11 Austin Adversaries $87,724,676
12 Sacramento Whitecaps $57,835,122
13 Memphis Squalls $39,244,967
14 Honolulu Tamarins $32,969,497
15 Kansas City Furnace $25,000,000
16 San Antonio Wizards $25,000,000

Rank Player Team Salary
1 Jeremy Boswell Austin $12,500,000
2 Lance Parizo Dallas $12,380,000
3 Donovan Fleming Austin $12,030,000
4 Dave Celis Virginia Beach $11,490,000
5 Nick Fetter Seattle $10,616,960
6 Gabriel Tompkins Nashville $10,140,000
7 Zachary Setzke Oakland $9,630,000
8 Jason Pressley Memphis $9,310,000
9 Ali Walker Seattle $9,280,000
10 Scott Perry Honolulu $9,270,000
11 Tom Knight Brooklyn $9,260,000
12 Columbo Cartellieri Staten Island $9,240,000
13 Nick Kohnert Manhattan $9,220,000
14 Chris Houston Kansas City $9,190,000
15 Jarod Edmonds Austin $9,090,000
16 Nick Courville Seattle $9,070,000
17 Justin White Oakland $9,000,000
18 Tim Sommer Kansas City $8,790,000
19 Joe Viviani Dallas $8,770,000
20 Humberto Velarde Houston $8,640,000
21 Jeremy Bunker Sacramento $8,580,000
22 Austin Jeffries Dallas $8,510,000
23 Fernando Montano Staten Island $8,510,000
24 Daniel Canales Memphis $8,500,000
25 Michael Christan Brooklyn $8,500,000