What if you could trade cap space?

TheOtherOne

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Team A's cap for the current year goes down 2 million, Team B's goes up 2 million. In exchange, Team A gets prospect from Team B.

Would these trades happen? Who would do it? How would it change the league? Would there need to be a limit?

Just curious.
 

I Hate Philadelphia

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Team A's cap for the current year goes down 2 million, Team B's goes up 2 million. In exchange, Team A gets prospect from Team B.

Would these trades happen? Who would do it? How would it change the league? Would there need to be a limit?

Just curious.

Arizona/Florida etc would have a team full of ELCs & Toronto/Rangers etc would have super teams.
 

aufheben

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Team A's cap for the current year goes down 2 million, Team B's goes up 2 million. In exchange, Team A gets prospect from Team B.

Would these trades happen? Who would do it? How would it change the league? Would there need to be a limit?

Just curious.
You mean B gets the prospect?
 

TheOtherOne

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Arizona/Florida etc would have a team full of ELCs & Toronto/Rangers etc would have super teams.

Maybe, but if the extra space is that helpful they'd probably have to be giving up good value in return. Maybe it would result in Arizona/Florida getting a good foundation to build on for the next few years.

You mean B gets the prospect?

No, Team B got the benefit of more cap space.
 

T REX

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Team A's cap for the current year goes down 2 million, Team B's goes up 2 million. In exchange, Team A gets prospect from Team B.

Would these trades happen? Who would do it? How would it change the league? Would there need to be a limit?

Just curious.

Absolutely not. Hell no. Cheap owners would be purposely trading away cap space.

No...no...no...
 
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aufheben

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Maybe, but if the extra space is that helpful they'd probably have to be giving up good value in return. Maybe it would result in Arizona/Florida getting a good foundation to build on for the next few years.



No, Team B got the benefit of more cap space.
I think it’d be better just to trade a player with a $2M AAV. You save space + salary, and receive additional assets in return for the player.

Teams like Arizona essentially already do what you’re proposing.
 
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mouser

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Team A's cap for the current year goes down 2 million, Team B's goes up 2 million. In exchange, Team A gets prospect from Team B.

Would these trades happen? Who would do it? How would it change the league? Would there need to be a limit?

Just curious.

Simple answer: They would need to reduce the Cap because the change would increase spending on players, and the players still only receive 50% of revenue at the end of the day.
 

JHB

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They should just let teams buy players from the other teams with straight up cash. Remove salary caps too.
 

Legion34

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There should be a soft cap with luxury tax on top to a limit.

Ie: league floor 70 million cap. Soft cap n80 million. Hard cap 90 million

Teams that go above 80 have to pay dollar for dollar to revenue sharing.

It’s win win.
 

mouser

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There should be a soft cap with luxury tax on top to a limit.

Ie: league floor 70 million cap. Soft cap n80 million. Hard cap 90 million

Teams that go above 80 have to pay dollar for dollar to revenue sharing.

It’s win win.

The League isn't going to break the 50/50 revenue split.
 
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Legion34

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The League isn't going to break the 50/50 revenue split.

Hmmmm yep I guess that’s a huge hole in it then....

But if it’s 1 to 1. Wouldn’t that still be 50/50?

If the team had to pay a dollar to the other owners pot for every dollar over the cap?
 

The Missing Piece

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This is an interesting idea.

I assume the cap floor would not change for the team so they would only be trading "Ceiling" space.
 

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