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Originally Posted by remangiii
I agree. The NFL allows teams to go over next season's salary cap and the teams just must be under by a deadline. The NBA has a soft cap, as does MLB.
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MLB has a salary cap? The MLBPA has been asleep at the switch if they let that happen!
If you meant the NHL, it has a hard salary cap, not a soft one.
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Originally Posted by remangiii
The problem, however, is that there isn't a way that a team can force itself under the cap because contracts are guaranteed, unlike in the NFL, perhaps the game should more accurately model a soft cap.
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An alternative which can allow a hard cap and guaranteed salaries is to allow the club to pay a buyout fee in order to get out of the contract and release a player.
In the NHL, the buyout fee is either one-third or two-thirds of the remaining contract value, depending on the age of the player. The buyout fee is then spread out in equal payments over twice the number of years left on the contract. This allows a player to be released and get paid while leaving the club cap room.
I would argue OOTP needs selectable contract buyout fee amounts anyway. It would allow for much better recreation the reserve clause era, where players could be released from their contract and were owed as little as 10 days' termination pay. Add to that the flexibility buyout fees offer to salary cap leagues.