Extension Money

[mfitterer1]

If you dump salary in season does it increase your extension money or FA money?

[kq76]

For FAs, yes it will:

$$ left for FAs = [Last year marketing revenue + Last year Gate revenue + This year TV contract + Cash] - [salary of players on the team + salary of coaches]

So if "salary of players on the team" decreases, then "$$ left for FAs" increases.

For Exts, it depends:

$$ left for Exts = [Last year marketing revenue + Last year Gate revenue + This year TV contract + Cash] - [salary of players with 2 or more years left on their contract + extensions signed + salary of coaches]

So, if you dump contracts of "salary of players with 2 or more years left on their contract" or "extensions signed", then your $ left for Exts will go up. Dumping the others (soon to be FAs, auto resigns, arbitration eligibles) will have no effect.

To me, this does not make sense though because I think the whole point of "$ left for.." is for it to be a budget mechanism and if you are still on the hook for those contracts of players who you dumped, then they should still be counted in your budget and reduce what money you can spend on future contracts. I call that an exploit.

EDIT: Of course the more contracts you dump, the more expenses you will have and the less profit you will have and as a result you'll have less cash in future years which also figures into the equations. That will only effect you in future years though, not this year. But if you regularly have a cash surplus (you end up with more than the cash max), then it doesn't matter if you lose that extra cash through contract dumping because you'll lose it anyways to the cash max.