Owners box

[Koredesu]

At the end of the year, does the money you made from the owners box get added to you cap room?

[Chomppig]

nope it dosen't :(

[Koredesu]

so how do you get more money i have 13m in cap room but it doesnt hurt to have more :O?

[Chomppig]

It goes up alittle each year. I'm not sure how. maybe burtal attack can answer that one.

[DraftMaster]

are you serious?
from my brain
cap room is dictacted as a % of all NFL reevnues -- all teams have the same, no matter what

in theory inflation casues price increases, whice result in reveune increases thus cap increases. also player get paid more the deeper you go into your fracnshise (see inflation)


not from my brain
http://www.vertgame.com/sal_cap.html
Rookie salary pool

Note: the 2005 salary cap is expected to be approximately $85.5 million per team, compared to last year's $80.582 million. This year's figure is still not final because it is subject to adjustment after the league's final gross revenues are determined by the NFL's auditors.

The salary cap is the absolute maximum each club may spend on player salaries in a capped year. For 2005, that amounts to 65.5 percent of league-wide "Defined Gross Revenues" (divided by 32 teams from 2004) made up of pre-season, regular season, and post-season gate receipts and radio and television rights. (In 2003, the percentage was 64.25%, and in 2004 it rose slightly to 64.75% of said revenues.) The salary cap remains in effect at all times, although certain exceptions make it appear as though it's not being applied at times.

A team may not exceed this cap with the salaries of players that are under contract and on their roster. If a team does exceed the salary cap at any time, the NFL can waive players from the team, starting with those earning the lowest salaries, until the team's payroll has fallen under the cap. In addition, the NFL may fine a team up to $1 million per day for exceeding the cap.

Teams must spend at least $67.3 million under the cap rules.

Only players under contract count toward the salary cap. Free agents do not count toward the cap until they sign a contract with the team.

Often it may appear that the cap is not in effect. How, for example, can teams have up to 80 players on the roster (in training camp) yet not exceed the cap? Here's the explanation.

From February 24 to the day before the season begins, a club's top 51 salaried players count towards the cap, plus pro-rated signing bonuses, incentives, etc., but not base salaries of other players on the roster up to 80. Thereafter, not all salaries on a club's roster count toward the cap. The maximum salary cap for 2005 is now expected to be about $85.5 million per club.

To get around the cap, teams typically structure their player contracts in such a way that much of the money is designated as "signing" or "roster" bonuses, or "incentive clauses." A signing bonus or roster bonus does count toward the cap but is prorated over the length of the contract, even though the entire bonus has been paid in cash "up front" to the player. When you read about a player and team agreeing to restructure a contract, it virtually always means that the player has agreed to convert at least a good part of his coming season's base salary into a signing bonus.

Incentive clauses are often made easy to reach as an indirect means of playing a player more while keeping his "base salary" low. Too easy to reach, however, and they're likely to be considered salary by the NFL, which must approve all contracts. (Incentives adjudged likely to be earned are counted against the cap.) For instance, if Drew Bledsoe, who's big and known for being immobile, had an incentive clause paying him $1 million for each game he started, the NFL would almost certainly rule that such payments are salary rather than genuine incentives, since Bledsoe has been a starter for many years. But a clause paying Bledsoe a bonus if he rushes for 500 yards would be legitimate, since he's known for his lack of mobility.

There are many additional rules, some of them highly technical. An example is the so-called "Deion Sanders rule" that was enacted after Dallas owner Jerry Jones gave Sanders a (then-)astronomical $13 million signing bonus, combined with base salaries of the then-minimum salary of $178,000 for the first three years. The new rule states that the first three years of any player's salary must equal the prorated amount of the signing bonus. The intent is to restrict circumvention of the salary cap.

Here's another little-known technicality. Those "likely to be earned" incentives mentioned above? Well, when they're not reached, they become cap credits the following year, which can mean a hidden bonanza for an underachieving franchise. A team that plays poorly, and which writes incentives into many of its player contracts, may actually reap a reward the year after. Case in point: the 2004 Vikings, who are an astounding $33 million under the cap. In actuality, the Vikings' cap is almost $95 million, because Minnesota gets more than $14 million in cap credits this year for "likely to be earned" incentives that weren't earned by their players in 2003.

Player benefits currently are $12,156,000 per club above the salary cap number.

Past salary cap amounts were as follows:

Year Salary Cap (per club)
2004 $80,582,000
2003 $75,007,000
2002 $71,100,000
2001 $67,400,000
2000 $62,172,000
1999 $58,353,000
1998 $52,388,000
1997 $41,450,000
1996 $40,777,000
1995 $37,100,000
1994 $34,600,000



The minimum salary structure for 2005 is as follows:

Years Salary
Rookies $230,000
Second-year players $305,000
Third-year $380,000
Fourth-year $455,000
Fifth- through seventh-year $540,000
Eighth- through tenth-year $665,000
10 or more years $765,000



Finally, there is a rule promulgated by the league, designated "Cap Relief For Veterans," which allows teams to sign players with more than four years of experience to one-year contracts and have those contracts count for only $450,000 under the cap. Suppose that a 10-year veteran signs a one-year deal. He will make $765,000 (the minimum salary), but the team that signs him only has to count $450,000 against its cap. Any player receiving this benefit can receive a maximum signing bonus of $25,000. <--- does this apply in madden?????

also i remember their beeing a salary bottom in the real nfl, however i have not seen it in madden
and also madden odes not report salary cap correctly the titans DO NOT have 30+ mil in cap space they have BIG PENELATIES


http://www.howstuffworks.com/question644.htm
http://www.askthecommish.com/salarycap/faq.asp