hahaha yeah it is. Sorry, there was a lot of moving parts in the league so had to give some context lol
When you say picks counting against the cap, do you mean that they have a dollar value that gets added along with the player contracts? If so, no, they don't count against the cap but my proposal is asking that they do have a dollar value (not counting against the cap) but a value that we can now burn/forfeit in order to receive cap dollars instead of drafting a pick. So say a 2nd rd pick is valued at $8, I can now forefeit that pick and receive $8 in cap back and they'll skip my pick in the draft order. I'm hoping this gets approved bc it's not always easy to get a trade done for extra cap or for players due to their contracts. Which is in a way to force you to make cuts so more players go back in the pool. But at least there will be an option now. And as a result you would then have to draft from 6rd+ in order to fill the rest of your roster, so it's a risk to burn picks.
Yeah, so it's based on EOS rankings 1-5 = $25, 6-10 = $24, 11-15 = $23, etc. At 120+ = $1. Lol yeah, I drafted BTJ, Bowers, and held Brown from last season but he had a "breakout" season which is when a player moves up 75 spots (rankings) from their original contract price (he was $1). This is to mimic a player "holding out" for a new contract. I also drafted Goff who was put back into the FA pool this past season. So this offseason I just got hit with $91 in cap, which is 60% of my entire salary cap for those 4 guys lol
I'm hoping someone can make a deal once I put my trading block out there but if not, I have to hope this pick burning propsal gets approved. If it does, I could burn pick 2nd rd - 7th rd and have $40. That would allow me to keep everyone I want except Kirk. But then I only have my 1st rd pick and the remaining spots will have to come from Rd 8+, which is going to be scraps lol
Or, I still cut (Scary, Kirk, Olave) and only burn $12 worth of picks and that would leave me with picks 1.02, 2.04, 2.08, 3.01, 3.11.
Or I keep Olave, burn $25 in picks and have 1.02, 2.02, 2.08.
So there are some options, I'm just not sure what the best would be. Cutting the 3 guys still leaves me with 5 picks that I can potentially replace them with in the draft as there will be rookies and vets that have been cut/dropped. 2nd option allows me to keep a young WR and I still have 3 strong early picks.
I apologize if its in these posts somewhere, I'd need to know the schedule of what draft picks cost. And what that leads to is, the cost versus replacement. For example, I don't understand why you would keep Goff. Why he's not an automatic release. The cost of his replacement seems highly likely to be much cheaper. Or is it, that you are forced to keep Goff? But I can't think of a good reason why the league would have that rule.