So are we treating PIt-Ten this week as a bye for those teams or for the players of those real life teams? We could potentially run the sim schedule as scheduled and treat any games cancelled due to covid like a bye week for those players (just using average stats) without throwing off our schedule....

that is the signing bonus budget only, correct?

Ultimately teams would not sign a player to a long term contract and then trade them. (because out LTCs have significant bonus money attached) Jared's suggestion of no trade for a year if SB over X amount makes sense because a real life GM would not have a job if they signed someone to big guarante...

Ultimately teams would not sign a player to a long term contract and then trade them. (because out LTCs have significant bonus money attached) Jared's suggestion of no trade for a year if SB over X amount makes sense because a real life GM would not have a job if they signed someone to big guarantee...

Haven't had a change in the rules yet. Someone in effl is offering trading a player to them, they LTC then trade back, for draft picks.

If youre referring to bpboguta I think he is saying in terms of modeling contracts and how there should be a salary to signing bonus ratio. I dont think he meant LTC would be different from regular free agency.

looking into it more I think a signing bonus is paid out to the player immediately but it is split over the length of the contract. So Matt Ryan just got a $100 million dollar check but that it still spread across the contract. I think maybe youre thinking renegotiating? As that would lower the cap ...

I dont know how that would work. Like I said earlier, I dont think teams get actual cap relief by paying out a SB early.

Gotcha I think flexibility in contracts would be nice, how a player counts 16 mil this year, 12 next then 19 the following. But I could see it being a little more difficult to manage like that. Front loading could be an option, but I don't know how that would factor into the free agency calculations...

The main issue i see with it is that it would show an unrealistic cap fiigure. Even though portions of a signing are paid out I think the cap number still shows it. Example.with Matt Ryan's contract, $100 mil guaranteed average of $30 mil per year. I don't think if they pay him $50 mil right now it ...