Thanks

Looking at my cap space left vs (almost) everyone else one of two things is going on:
Either I'm using a different strategy in regard to contracts OR I have very little to no clue what the hell I'm doing

Sadly, I suspect the latter is the case.......at least I'm consistent, I'm doing it in both leagues.

I think there are multiple strategies that can be effective. A few people appear to be taking an aggressive win-now strategy where they are mortgaging the future (both in terms of salary commitments and draft picks) in order to put the best possible team on the field over the next year or two. One thing is for certain, if an owner has a lot of talent on his roster, and if many of them are on short contracts, that owner will bleed a lot of talent into future FA pools. Due to needs to sign their star players coming up on short contracts, they may also end up not being as active in future FA pools. Or maybe they manage to thread the needle and maintain key members of their overall talent and put a strong team on the field for years.

I think those who sew up their key talent early on can be really successful down the road as long as the players careers are productive throughout the length of their contracts. Ideally you'll have fewer needs down the road and an easier time filling key needs. The key risk in this strategy is if certain players fade in the latter parts of their contract you could end up with a lot of dead cap space.

I don't think anyone has a lock on a long term winning strategy at this point.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but there's still not a way to see how long people are signed to on potential trade partners' rosters, correct?

EDIT: Hell, I just now saw that you can see how many FA dollars people have to spend. **** me - I thought I was in pretty good shape. As it turns out, about 1/2 the league can dwarf my piddling FA budget.

Nope. Coming soon. I want to get contract lengths as transparent as possible. For now if you are doing a trade, it will be worth discussing the present contract length and I expect people to be honest until we can make it more transparent.

Same here. My team is probably more in need of a key free agent or two than most teams, but I'm probably not going to be able to afford to win any bidding wars. I guess that means I should play with an eye toward the 2014 season or so.

The big guessing game at this point is gong to be what it takes to win a bidding war. I haven't delved into the market in depth yet so I don't know the supply. Will tons of money get thrown at a few big names? Will a little money get spread across a lot of solid players? It's going to be interesting to see how it plays out.

Wait what where do you see how much everyone else has?

Edit: wow found it, a lot of people have tons of money left. You think about it though a lot of top players are older, so you're not going to give a tom brady a 7 year contract when he probably has 3 seasons left.

Yes.

The bidding war for Richard Sherman is going to be LEGENDARY.

I'm sooo glad I'm not going in on that. LMAO

haha I bet he goes for more then 200 easy

Double-ewe Tee Eff

How the hell do some of you have so much money left over? I'm going to be lucky to pick up the 3 guys I need to fill out my 53. Shit.

There are few big names out there, Sherman and Cruz are gonna cost top dollar.

The opening bid is going to b more than $200

If he goes for under $400 I'd b shocked

LMAOLMAO

I bet there is some crazy ****er who only wants an upgrade at CB and will go hog wild.

Here's the thing - there aren't a lot of teams with a shitload of cap space that also don't have several holes in their roster.

The teams that have that kind of cap space probably shouldn't be throwing $400 at one player. There are a bunch of good players out there.

I put together a budget that I'm going to scrap now (way more money than I thought there would be) but I had 8-10 legitimately excellent players out there. If you're after interior O-Linemen, it's a damn gold mine.