Post by Myles (SAS) on Oct 27, 2013 0:18:58 GMT -5
Here's how we are going to handle the situation of signing a free agent that puts you over the hard cap, from being under it prior to said signing. First of all, this is on me and Dylan for not having a plan set in place for something like this, but this is what we decided on.
The team that commits the infraction (in this case Miami) will immediately forfeit their next 1st round draft pick (in this case, the 2014 Miami 1st). The team will also be given until the next sim to bring their team salary to under the hard cap limit, or else the signed free agent (in this case, Tiago Splitter) will be cut and the team will have to eat that salary. This means teams must be extremely careful if they are close to the hard cap during free agency. This disclaimer will also be posted in each FA sim thread so that way teams know the risks if they are dealing close to the hard cap.
If a team is over the hard cap already (such as the LA Lakers, who started the offseason with 110M in team salary due to inflated cap holds) and they make a move that keeps them over the hard cap but reduced them in salary, there will not be any penalty levied on that team. They did not have an opportunity to renounce players until contract decisions anyway, and they should be given the chance to resign their own players. However, any move that either increases their salary, even by $1, or not getting under the HC by the end of the off-season will result in the penalties outlined in the CBA. The reason the ruling is different for these teams is because they were only over the hard cap due to the inflated cap holds, and only the inflated cap holds, and assuming all the moves they made are moves to bring them under the hard cap, should not be penalized for that.
The team that commits the infraction (in this case Miami) will immediately forfeit their next 1st round draft pick (in this case, the 2014 Miami 1st). The team will also be given until the next sim to bring their team salary to under the hard cap limit, or else the signed free agent (in this case, Tiago Splitter) will be cut and the team will have to eat that salary. This means teams must be extremely careful if they are close to the hard cap during free agency. This disclaimer will also be posted in each FA sim thread so that way teams know the risks if they are dealing close to the hard cap.
If a team is over the hard cap already (such as the LA Lakers, who started the offseason with 110M in team salary due to inflated cap holds) and they make a move that keeps them over the hard cap but reduced them in salary, there will not be any penalty levied on that team. They did not have an opportunity to renounce players until contract decisions anyway, and they should be given the chance to resign their own players. However, any move that either increases their salary, even by $1, or not getting under the HC by the end of the off-season will result in the penalties outlined in the CBA. The reason the ruling is different for these teams is because they were only over the hard cap due to the inflated cap holds, and only the inflated cap holds, and assuming all the moves they made are moves to bring them under the hard cap, should not be penalized for that.
tnx for clarification.