2016 Cap Analytics: Arizona Cardinals

Expected Contract OutcomesExpected Contract Value 2.0 utilizes an algorithm based on a player’s contract characteristics, age, position and 2015 performance to forecast probabilities as to the outcomes of contract termination decisions.   The lower the Expected Outcome, the more likely the player’s contract will be terminated in 2016.  A pay cut is treated as a termination.  We have applied ECV 2.0 to all contracts scheduled to count $2 million or more against the 2016 salary cap with the exception of exercised 5th year rookie options.  Expected Savings is the calculated by multiplying the probability a player will be released by the cap savings realized by the team upon such release.

PlayerPositionExpected OutcomeExpected Savings
Patrick PetersonDB99.9%($14,163)
Mike IupatiOL99.7%($11,390)
Deone BucannonDB99.2%($7,952)
Jared VeldheerOL97.7%$122,850
Larry FitzgeraldREC96.5%($344,350)
Carson PalmerQB96.2%($336,875)
Justin BethelDB93.1%$69,000
DJ HumphriesOL91.7%($4,988)
Calais CampbellF788.9%$1,085,175
Jonathan CooperOL76.1%$409,806
Corey PetersF746.0%$665,620
Daryl WashingtonF739.7%$1,205,800
Cory ReddingF74.2%$2,875,500
Expected Change in Cap Room$5,714,033

 

True Cap SpaceRealizable Cap Space depicts the total amount of salary cap space potentially at the team’s disposal in 2016, and True Cap Space makes further adjustments to take into consideration amounts that are accounted for in practical terms.  Most True Cap Space will be used on players currently under contract as a result of the team choosing to not release them.

True Cap Space (2016)
Adjusted Salary Cap$153,084,788
Prorated Signing Bonus Amounts($34,455,481)
Realizable Cap Space$118,629,307
Fully Guaranteed Salary($13,635,932)
Minimum Salary Cap Holds($22,050,000)
True Cap Space$82,943,375
League Rank23rd

Commitment Index – Commitment Index identifies the degree to which a team has “mortgaged its future” by measuring its net future salary cap commitments as a percentage of the average net future salary cap commitments of all teams.  A Commitment Index Score of 100% is average, and a negative Commitment Index Score indicates that the team has more current salary cap space than future salary cap commitments.  The Commitment Index Score of every team in the league changes to at least some degree with every transaction executed by any team in the league, so Commitment Index Score is measured as of a specific point in time (in this case, January 11, 2016). 

Commitment Index (2017+)
Prorated Signing Bonus Amounts$44,669,675
Fully Guaranteed Salary$1,245,192
Current Cap Space($20,100,688)
Net Commitment$25,814,179
Commitment Index Score149%
League Rank (1st = Most Committed)12th