FREE AGENCY Questions

[John1974]

You can make as many offers as you want even if you have say 10mil in softcap room. The game only reads the softcap and not the hardcap so if you have 10 mil remaining in soft cap and make a max offer to any player its going to stop his first year at either the remaining softcap or the max offer for that player if you have enough softcap room for the 1st year.

so for example you have 9 mil in softcap room. you max offer a player who normally max would be 11 mil as mentioned in the FA rules. The game will make your first year of the offer 9 mil due to what you have in softcap remaining. And then every year after that is based off that 1st year at the increases %'s

So keep that in mind.

You can make more offers than what you have in softcap. You could sign more than 1 player brining you into the hardcap. but max offers will be based off what you have in softcap as the game doesnt factor hardcap. So like we mention every year you have to be carefull when you are at or near the softcap because max deals depend on that softcap as the game doesnt allow me to enter more for per year salary in the 1st year then what you have in cap room.

[John1974]

also keep in mind the following if you are over the softcap.

If you are over the softcap you cannot make FA offers during the FA period other than MLE, LLE. If you want to make a normal FA offer you will have to make a trade to get under the softcap. You can however after the normal FA period make 1 year min offers on players to fill a roster.

[New York Knicks]

Thanks for clearing it up John. Now I feel like I gotta chance in free agency.

[John1974]

thing is now is when hardcap and softcap are really coming into play in this league as FA stock heats up.

so people are going to have to be more smart about trades, FA contracts handled out, resigns...etc.

Everything gets very interesting from here on out.

Here is the current as of today caps

Boston Celtics $11,058,844
Miami Heat $9,814,154
New Jersey Nets $4,115,681
New York Knicks $15,893,591
Orlando Magic $43,315,755
Philadelphia 76ers $10,304,028
Washington Bullets $19,424,458
Atlanta Hawks $22,361,676
Charlotte Hornets -$445,072
Chicago Bulls $1,420,893
Cleveland Cavs $26,232,617
Detroit Pistons -$8,112,663
Indiana Pacers $21,679,987
Milwaukee Bucks -$6,034,027
Toronto Raptors $29,002,017
Dallas Mavericks $20,805,628
Denver Nuggets $23,231,290
Houston Rockets $18,313,553
Minnesota Timberwolves $29,780,441
San Antonio Spurs $21,878,275
Utah Jazz $27,456,483
Memphis Grizzlies $29,847,246
Golden State Warriors $14,497,876
Los Angeles Lakers $16,972,654
Los Angeles Clippers $76,612
Phoenix Suns -$8,186,192
Portland Trailblazers $21,938,521
Sacramento Kings $485,154
Seattle Supersonics $29,938,236


Looks like about 4-5 teams in hardcap.

[New York Knicks]

True. It gets realistic now, 20 teams with room to offer max contracts, so at this point just about everybody has cap room (not the case in real life).

[John1974]

also keep in mind if you are in the hardcap and have bird rights to a FA player you can offer the max deal on that player in FA or whatever max would be up to the 70 hardcap depending where your team is at.