"Salary cap crunch"

[SErebel11]

(03-05-2021, 04:49 PM)Au165 Wrote: There is a strong belief that many players, at least good ones, will opt to go the one-year route. Those that don't however will struggle to accept some of the terms you laid out above. Usually, if you want to give out these really low bonuses you mention then you need to combo them with a large year 1 base salary as it acts as a pseudo bonus in essence. The idea guys are going to play for just over league minimum in year 1 just because they got a signing bonus that is supposed to kind of reflect the totality of the contract just isn't realistic. Now will some contenders be able to pull this off? Maybe. However, this will not be something most teams could get away with, even in a bad environment. They will instead take larger one-year deals and come back next year. 

Actually, my belief is for the mid-teir guys that you are going to sign to a 2 year or 3 year contract as structured above a team can get away with it if a huge portion of it is guaranteed money for season 2 and maybe 3 which is what would likely have to happen. Secondly, why would teams want to shell out a larger 1 year deal in a lowered salary cap season? That money goes dollar for dollar on this seasons's cap making it even more difficult to sign other players.