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Originally Posted by D as in David
I've never seen someone offer what a cap-compliant system for the playoffs would look like so there may be ways around one problem I see with it. It would disincentivize teams from booking cap space throughout the year as they would not be allowed to have an active roster, at the time of the playoffs, that exceeded the cap even though they would still be under the cap for the entire year. TDL days would be quiet as all get out.
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Having a hard cap for the playoffs would be lame and make it harder for teams to sell assets and rebuild.
I've always had a fairly simple solution: to be playoff eligible a player must have counted against the cap for __ days. I'd put it around 60 days (a little less than 1/3 of the season) but the number could be whatever. And it would have to be for contracts over say 2M AAV.
Or to make it a little more complex it could be a 3 to 1 ratio - for every 3 regular season days on the cap a player earns 1 game of playoff eligibility. So if you want them available for all 28 potential playoff games they have to be on the cap for 84 days. But teams could be aggressive and do enough to earn just 20 playoff games