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Originally Posted by DanT
The current Collective Bargaining Agreement (a bandwidth-unfriendly PDF document) is available at the NFLPA site. That's the document that spells out the details of the salary cap, but it's kind of hard to figure it all out unless one has a lot of time. 
http://www.nflpa.org/Members/main.as...e=CBA+Complete |
Seriously, I'm impressed at your research and interpretive skills. I need to think through the scenarios outlined in the portions you cut and pasted to fully get it. I understand why teams hire salary cap experts. It's a mess, with a lot of room for interpretation. The whole LTBE and NLTBE issue seems especially subjective. There just seem to be unlimited scenarios, with a given player, that could create anomalies - so how do you peg incentives that are fair to either the player or the team (or in this case, the team's competitors, as it pertains to the salary cap)?
As for the CBA, I decided once about a year ago that I was going to set out to better understand it - so I started reading it. As you can imagine, I didn't get very far. It's not exactly, can't-put-it-down, high-suspense reading.
Thanks for the response. It's interesting, and great food for thought.