Well I can't tell you who to sign and who to let walk. That's the fun part of the game.
But I can tell you that you want to
stay under the cap not over.
If you want to keep a player long term one way to save on cap space is to sign them long term contracts with a high bonus with the lowest possible base salary. When you renegotiate a contract, that player will have a bonus demand and wont except anything less. But he will sign for a different length of contract and base salary than he was asking for.
A way to find out how much bonus he will except is to lower the base salary to the min. and set the contract years to "2" and I stress 2 years. Set his bonus to 0% and hit submit. You will get a popup window that will tell you the lowest bonus he will except. X out of the window and offer him a contract that meets his bonus demand.
So give him the amount of bonus he asked for, add the amount of years that you really want him to sign for and lower his base salary as low as you can. If you go too low you'll get a warning box pop up saying the bonus is more than 75% of his base salary. If that's the case just gradually raise you base til it fits. Remember this is for players you want to hang onto to for a while.
Last edited at 11/16/2017 2:25 pm
