Last week I posted the Realizable Cap Space and True Cap Space of each team in order to show the degree to which each team has already truly committed its 2016 salary cap space. Today I will examine an updated Commitment Index to show the degree to which each team has committed salary cap space to players on its current roster for 2017 and beyond. As a reminder, Commitment Index measures future salary cap commitments – prorated signing bonus amounts and guaranteed base salaries – net of current salary cap space, measured relative to the average net future salary cap commitments of all teams. The premise is that a team can only “mortgage its future” by committing future salary cap space to the extent that it does so to a greater degree than the other teams in the league (thereby leaving it in a disadvantaged position in terms of the ability to use cap space in the future). Scoring highly in Commitment Index is not necessary a bad thing; it depends on the strength of the roster to which the team has committed.
A few notes on this Commitment Index update:
Team | Proration | Guarantees | Cap Space | Net Commitment | Index | 10/15 |
DAL | 70,400,575 | 3,476,625 | (6,908,119) | 66,969,081 | 388% | 163% |
BUF | 57,068,911 | 3,138,491 | 6,223,991 | 66,431,393 | 385% | 151% |
BAL | 60,936,026 | 2,844,759 | (1,944,966) | 61,835,819 | 358% | 137% |
MIA | 38,142,227 | 14,896,267 | 2,385,569 | 55,424,063 | 321% | 143% |
NO | 40,225,313 | 5,378,913 | 8,005,043 | 53,609,269 | 310% | 149% |
PIT | 58,623,178 | 4,092,128 | (9,797,842) | 52,917,464 | 306% | 133% |
CAR | 66,174,691 | 1,235,794 | (21,640,540) | 45,769,945 | 265% | 140% |
WAS | 45,888,326 | 6,191,735 | (8,958,747) | 43,121,314 | 250% | 122% |
NE | 38,938,518 | 1,127,112 | (4,293,087) | 35,772,543 | 207% | 120% |
ATL | 44,334,314 | 6,824,756 | (18,941,307) | 32,217,763 | 186% | 130% |
SD | 50,860,166 | 3,294,945 | (27,347,859) | 26,807,252 | 155% | 107% |
ARI | 44,669,675 | 1,245,192 | (20,100,688) | 25,814,179 | 149% | 110% |
NYJ | 21,721,052 | 12,692,007 | (11,378,518) | 23,034,541 | 133% | 122% |
KC | 49,638,972 | 3,048,220 | (31,621,449) | 21,065,743 | 122% | 143% |
SEA | 45,241,148 | – | (26,201,279) | 19,039,869 | 110% | 91% |
GB | 43,468,889 | 1,933,146 | (26,401,280) | 19,000,755 | 110% | 78% |
DET | 32,983,635 | 3,302,633 | (18,380,314) | 17,905,954 | 104% | 96% |
HOU | 34,545,219 | 6,611,182 | (29,194,427) | 11,961,974 | 69% | 111% |
PHI | 26,917,683 | 4,423,488 | (20,109,262) | 11,231,909 | 65% | 97% |
NYG | 42,354,729 | 6,579,872 | (42,472,206) | 6,462,395 | 37% | 95% |
CLE | 28,522,815 | 10,007,725 | (32,723,128) | 5,807,412 | 34% | 70% |
DEN | 23,798,998 | 2,263,990 | (20,413,401) | 5,649,587 | 33% | 72% |
MIN | 21,271,013 | 5,969,662 | (22,144,256) | 5,096,419 | 29% | 65% |
IND | 22,863,143 | 1,174,582 | (20,434,444) | 3,603,281 | 21% | 51% |
TEN | 29,280,571 | 8,359,313 | (38,216,155) | (576,271) | -3% | 64% |
CIN | 29,296,070 | 2,392,790 | (36,573,157) | (4,884,297) | -28% | 62% |
STL | 18,295,839 | 9,136,257 | (32,490,626) | (5,058,530) | -29% | 77% |
SF | 30,838,371 | 3,106,960 | (48,289,518) | (14,344,187) | -83% | 68% |
TB | 14,613,157 | 10,033,573 | (48,373,505) | (23,726,775) | -137% | 57% |
CHI | 17,847,215 | 6,375,284 | (51,787,541) | (27,565,042) | -160% | 70% |
JAX | 18,382,835 | 9,445,255 | (70,715,467) | (42,887,377) | -248% | 58% |
OAK | 16,576,122 | 9,378,528 | (70,618,686) | (44,664,036) | -259% | 48% |
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