re: If We Sign Holiday, What Next?

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Hopefully league will send exact cap number soon after finals

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They can't. The reason the signing moratorium at the beginning of July exists is because that's the period that league and player's union accountants get together, add up all the numbers for the last fiscal year and figure out what the cap for next year will be.

2 years ago the cap got enough of an unexpected bump from the projection that the Pels could have signed Koufos with cap space instead of Asik with Bird Rights, an option that wasn't available under the cap projection. By that point most of the 1st and 2nd round of deals had been made with players. I don't think Demps would have actually gone after Koufos instead of Asik, but it shows that the exact number is usually not known before most of the deals are made.