Another part of that is if teams have multiple draft picks in the round it may refer to the saved cap figure used at the start but it doesn't re-calculate it after every signing for every team. So it may put someone a little over if they had more picks when room for one signing but the idea is hopefully not way too much over.soonertf wrote:Looks like to me that it is signing the pciks anyway. All the teams that are currently in the red have recently signed 4th rd picks. Am I missing something?
I can make some changes to it to do more involved financial checking to catch some of that, but I really think that goes against what we need to try to do. We can talk about it more or in the off-season rules discussions as nothing would change til next year (actually might be a couple of things to discuss in the coming weeks before they get too far out of mind or forget next year), but I don't think the purpose should primarily be not having a signing put a team over. We need to get the low round signings done automatically no matter what, as otherwise you have 7th round picks holding out and teams getting until the end of the pre-season games to decide whether to keep or not without them ever having been under contract unrealistically.
Ideally in my mind, we should get the 7th thru 2nd rounders signed entirely even if it puts a team over and give them the 48 hours to correct it. And if they don't address it and that's an ongoing problem, then we'd hopefully have a strong wait list to have a new GM pop in to fix it.
First round holdouts are not entirely common either, but at least happen sometimes even into the season so I could live with us having some first round holdouts every now and then, but don't think we should have low round holdouts at all starting next year personally. Once the 7th rounders are signed, all 7th rounders are signed and no holdouts without contract waiting in the wings to see if he'll be signed or not later.