Our Salary Cap situation as it stands, and the Tax Line

So TigerinATL was kind enough to post this in the Asik thread, courtesy of Mason at BSS:



As you can see, with 9 players, we are at a little over 73 mill. The tax line is 83. It is VERY unlikely we will want to pay the tax at this time, and there are all kinds of penalties for repeaters. So we are not crossing that line. Also keep in mind that the number for the tax line only matters at the END of the season, so we could get under at that time in some ways.

However, if we had the full MLE and full BAE, we are at 11 players and only about 1.5 million under the tax line. We probably want to have 13 players on the roster.

So its going to get dicey.

The only thing I can think of is we split the MLE between two players, the BAE to one player, getting us to 12, and then add a minimum player (rookie? vet?) to get us to 13ish.

There's also the possibility we add some salary that is non-guaranteed so we can cut them before the season ends? Don't know.

Its going to be really interesting now that we have a good idea of what our salary situation is.

Those, like me, who were hoping to use the FULL MLE on a wing look to be shite out of luck.