LogFAQs > #912715082

I hesitate to suggest this because I'm wary of how much extra work it would be for you but maybe instead of increasing the cap, you could have 'Dead Money Forgiveness'. Where the first X amount of dead money (3-5m?) is ignored.

That way it would possibly still encourage the better teams to trade to make use of it. Whereas if they opted not to trade, they effectively don't get to make use of it unless they cut. It would also allow teams in dire straits to get rid of a bad contract without screwing themselves.

I know that would be slightly double edged in that it could encourage people to be irresponsible with contract offers and the point of dead money is to punish people for doing that.

EDIT: Also maybe make a note of what the AI spend this year and move ours accordingly. If all the AI are at like 175m+ for example then maybe we need to be in the 160s. However if quite a few of the AI are at 157m or lower (or even like 165m or lower) then maybe we are making too big a deal out of it. Be interesting to see where the Broncos are at too.