The team was put in cap **** by owner Qwertyuiop before he bailed! I talked to him and he apologized and is embarrassed but never once asked for any help.
The situation is the Miami Nemisis is -80,159,733 under the cap. The team was -20 million (approximately) after the end of season spin and Qwertyuiop cut players, signed free agents and drafted which made the problem much, much worse.
Step 1 -80,159,733
I resigned these players to extensions, all young with experience in parenthesis which saved a total of 4,617,273
TE Johnson (2) 1.77M RG Magee (3) .215M SLB Mason (2) 1.453M MLB James (2) .597M FS Mason (3) .580M
Step 2 -75,542,460
I cut 17 aging vets with large cap numbers plus any low rated player being overpaid which saved 86,249,747 million giving Miami over 10 million in cap space. The cuts will put around 65 million in dead cap next season which will mean they have over 100 million in dead cap next season.
QB Morton (16) 6,662,631 QB Crawford (2) 13,872,502 QB Mah (R) 2,648,400 RB Okane (12) 4,120,642 WR Becton (R) 1,549,870 LG Orlando (10) 4,167,229 C Jorgensen (10) 3,227,980 C Martin (R) 685,172 K James (6) 3,349,428 LDE Twedt (4) 2,117,952 DT Nuzzo (10) 6,813,935 DT Baker (12) 6,897,771 RDE Robb (11) 3,964,971 SLB Boyd (11) 11,022,733 WLB Schultz (12) 7,254,034 SS Damore (3) 2,992,774 FS Frizzell (5) 4,901,723
Step 3 10,707,287
These cuts left the team with 38 active on the roster so I offered contracts to 19 free agent players to fill out the roster.
Step 4
I will stick around as owner until after the next spin to see what players signed and make sure everything is OK before dropping the team and await a new owner.
He only joined 3 weeks ago. Did he flat out not read any forums about roster management and salary cap before joining? Sheesh.
All the more reason to ask for help...I managed to fix the cap issue without losing any of the young talent he needed to keep.
Some of his contracts were insane like the big contract for a QB where the bulk of the contract was base salary so cutting him saved 13 million and had very little dead cap
Or, if you know the right people, you can just give them your login information and let them do it for you. While they're at it they can do all the gameplanning too :O
Unfortunately, as league administrators we sometimes have to take a chance on a newbie because there simply aren't that many people looking for new teams. There was a time when I had no problem rejecting new applications for USFL. Now when there is an opening, I pretty much take what I can get because I have to.
