UK_Seahawk":3o06y5ik said:
Have been looking at Overthecap.com and it seems bigger cap savings are made if we cut players after June 1st.
Am I reading this correctly and what is the logic here?
E.g. Lynch cap saving pre June 1st 6.5m post June 1st 9m.
Before June 1 all remaining guaranteed money goes into dead money for the next year.
After June 1 the remaining guaranteed money for next year goes into next year, and the remaining guaranteed money after that goes into dead money for the following year.
The cap savings are "bigger" next year because the dead money is being split across multiple years rather than being consolidated into next year; in the end it's the same, it's just how you choose to distribute it.
For a team like the Hawks unless they're pushing problems down the road if they want to cut Lynch pre-Pune 1 makes sense. Next year they're last in the league for players under contract (by a wide margin) but also have cap room to absorb the dead money hit while trying to fill out the roster.
The year after that they've got the 6th most money in the league already committed to the third fewest players in the league under contract.
I think 2017 is really the year JS has to be ready for, so pushing dead money into it isn't really that wise.
Just my take though, who knows what he does.