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Originally Posted by bubbsy
Im confused. I thought that the cap hit is the total contract value divided by the term (# of years).
I had just assumed that nylanders first year bump was to get $ he would have lost due to only playing a prorated season.
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It works the opposite way - and he didn't lose any dollars.
They take your salary for the year - let's say $6M as an example - and then the number of games you're playing - let's say 3/4 of the season - and then they
reverse pro-rate it and say that getting $6M for 60 games is the same as getting $8M for 80 games (even though you were never getting $8m and you would still have gotten $6M if you played the entire season).
That's why his AAV went up for the first year. And that's why I argued that it isn't real money. In the example above, the player still gets their $6M, regardless of the number of games played. The league does it this way so that teams can't cheat and slide in some cap circumvention by letting a player sit for some games.
For example, let's say you only had $6M of cap space, but the player wants $8M per year. If you pro-rated the way you were suggesting, all a team would have to do is wait 20 games to sign the player, then the $8M would be pro-rated down to $6M for the first year, at which point the team has artificially improved their cap.
Doing it this way, it is a
detriment to the team to have the player sit, because the cap hit actually goes
up in the first year. This system is much better because it protects players and really punishes the team to have the player sit out for a while.