NFL Salary Cap Manipulation - Detroit Pistons Fan Community

jammertime · #1 (**permalink**) 03-02-2008, 10:44 PM

A VERY interesting article about salary cap manipulation. I had absolutely no idea that this existed. I always thought that the cap was the cap, but teams can actually raise or lower the cap. This sounds more like the soft cap of the NBA.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...res/index.html

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Because of a variety of complicated tricks that savvy NFL team officials have figured out, teams can manipulate their salary cap to the point where their cap figure winds up millions of dollars higher than the teams they're competing with.

They use our good old Lions as an example:

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The Vikings and Lions are both in the NFC North. Both have unadjusted cap figures of $116,729,000, like all 32 NFL teams.
Yet the Vikings' 2008 cap figure exceeds $135 million, and the Lions' adjusted figure is more than $111 million.
So the Vikings this offseason will have $20 million more than one of their division rivals to pay free agents and re-sign their own players. That's an 18 percent difference, and it demonstrates just how much of a difference shrewd cap management can make.

Matt Millen's incompetency strikes again.

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What team lost the most money via cap adjustments? The Lions. They have the lowest adjusted cap in the league in 2008 -- their $111,380,935 figure actually coming out $5,348,065 below the unadjusted cap figure.
Does that surprise anybody?

Do you think this is fair?

Has anyone ever heard of this before?

Are you surprised that the Lions are the worst in the league at this?

Comments?

roscoe36 · #2 (**permalink**) 03-03-2008, 08:46 AM

Yes this is fair.

No I have not heard of it before.

I am not surprised the Lions are worst at this, the General Manager is bad beyond words.

The best team with the Cap in Detroit are the Red Wings.

TheeTFD · #3 (**permalink**) 03-08-2008, 12:49 AM

They better double check. It sounds like the stuff that got the 49ers in trouble.
Is this something other than he who has the most luxury boxes gets to spend the most?