2016 Cap Analytics: Denver Broncos

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
Chris Harris Jr.DB99.9%$630
Shane RayF799.8%($8,950)
Derek WolfeF799.3%($42,160)
Demaryius ThomasREC99.1%($175,720)
Sylvester WilliamsF791.6%$121,297
Aqib TalibDB88.0%$837,644
TJ WardDB68.3%$1,030,250
Darian StewartDB65.5%$863,000
Emmanuel SandersREC61.4%$2,159,360
Vance WalkerF751.9%$721,650
Louis VasquezOL51.5%$2,669,150
Britton ColquittKP48.4%$1,677,975
Virgil GreenREC44.9%$1,046,520
Owen DanielsREC31.8%$1,706,000
DeMarcus WareF716.7%$8,328,000
Ryan CladyOL9.2%$8,082,090
Peyton ManningQB7.2%$17,641,500
Expected Change in Cap Room+$46,658,236

 

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$152,805,354
Prorated Signing Bonus Amounts($22,349,635)
Realizable Cap Space$130,455,719
Fully Guaranteed Salary($14,901,993)
Minimum Salary Cap Holds($22,500,000)
True Cap Space$93,053,726
League Rank15th

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$23,798,998
Fully Guaranteed Salary$2,263,990
Current Cap Space($20,413,401)
Net Commitment$5,649,587
Commitment Index Score33%
League Rank (1st = Most Committed)22nd