Tag Archive: cap space

Mar 31

Reported vs Effective Cap Space

Great question yesterday from DMB asking about “reported” cap space versus “real” or “effective” cap space. Upon reading it I realized it would be a great post topic and since I have a large Jets readership we will focus on them as an example.

There are a number of misconceptions that occur when people talk of salary cap space during this time of year. Perhaps the biggest comes from a majority of the media who say the team needs to set aside x amount of dollars for the rookie class, which in the Jets case is $5.6 million. We have … Read the rest

Feb 10

Estimated Cap Space for All 32 Teams Feature…

I just wanted to point out what should be the final static link in the menu which is going to be an estimated cap total for each team. Please note that these are all estimates and we are working our way (slowly) through last years transactions to come up with somewhat accurate dead money costs for each team, so if a team has a great deal of dead money it will probably lead to some drastic differences between what is on the site and what you read elsewhere. The totals are all based on a $121.1 million dollar salary cap … Read the rest