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Old 01-23-2016, 01:28 PM   #5291
Mike F
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Originally Posted by Jay Random View Post
No, that's exactly how it does NOT work. The cap hits go down because you only have to pay the player for whatever is left of the season. The cap space does not go up. The way you try to do it, you account for the same effect twice and come up with a bogus number.
I think General Fanager's numbers are just a different way of conceptualizing the same thing - the $50M is given as the total AAV of contracts that the team can take on, essentially inflating the cap space rather that proportionately decreasing the cap hit, as AAVs are readily ascertainable.

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