Personally I don't expect there to be much of a jump in the cap, certainly not enough to get into any exotic formulas. The financial numbers coming out of the financial reports of the 3 community owned clubs, who coincidentally held down the top 3 spots in average attendance the past 2 seasons, are still at best modest.DanoT wrote: ↑Wed Nov 14, 2018 8:49 pmI think the best way for GMs to deal with the uncertainty of the CBA in terms of date signed and SMS amount, is to offer a variable contract. So if SMS is X dollars, the key player gets Y dollars, and if the SMS goes as high as X+, then the player gets Y+. It is simple, really.
Last time around the cap jumped from $4.4M in 2013 to $5.0M in 2014 with minimums jumping from $45K to $50K. That last new CBA also coincided with the new TSN deal that saw teams get approximately an extra $1.8M annually. There is no such bonanza coming this time. I could see a one time jump of $250K which is less than 5% over the 2018 cap of $5.2M and perhaps a bump on minimum from the 2018 rate of $54K to something like $57K. When one considers the other things that count under the cap such as PR wages and maybe there's an extra $4K per player on the 46. Some fans think they should add another couple players to the roster and a couple more again to the PR. Those additional costs would also come out of whatever overall bump might happen. I think many players will want to see what happens in the new CBA to be sure they don't leave significant money on the table. I think those same players will be sadly disappointed.
