EHM The Blue Line

I asked this question in the SI forum but got no reply so I will try here.I am slowly learning how to play this game,but mainly by reading the forums.The manual is very general and not much help.In the area of finances I am lost.If you send a player down to the minors does he count against your cap? If you offer a young player a contract does he count against your cap(Ect,Ect.)I know there was a tactics manual written to help people and It helped me.Does anyone know if somone has written a finance tips manual?I printed the tips file that comes with the game,but it too is very generaland not much help.

No-one has done a finance guide to my knowledge.

The amount against the cap can be confusing. In the preseason, EHM takes your highest earning 24 players and counts them all as contributing to the cap whether they are in minors or not.

During the season, only those players on your active NHL roster will count against the cap, regardless of age.

Hopefully this helps, but feel free to ask any questions you have

hluraven wrote:During the season, only those players on your active NHL roster will count against the cap, regardless of age.

See now thats what I thought, but I noticed during a trade, if I offer a guy who is in the in the minors, his salary is taken away from my total salary...So that doesn't really make sense if what you said is true.

Joe wrote:

hluraven wrote:During the season, only those players on your active NHL roster will count against the cap, regardless of age.

See now thats what I thought, but I noticed during a trade, if I offer a guy who is in the in the minors, his salary is taken away from my total salary...So that doesn't really make sense if what you said is true.

yeah its taken from the total salary. not the salary against the cap.

For the guide, i don't think there was a financial part in the 05's edition. But if there's a need, maybe we could include one for 07 By the way, we already have lot of demandes about practice, so we'll soon start to work on this section. Along with Archibalduk, we do our best to write it as fast as possible, but it takes a lot of time and we don't always have a lot of time for us, so be patient

But of course, TBL users will help you in the forums

redwingsfan wrote:

Joe wrote:

hluraven wrote:During the season, only those players on your active NHL roster will count against the cap, regardless of age.

See now thats what I thought, but I noticed during a trade, if I offer a guy who is in the in the minors, his salary is taken away from my total salary...So that doesn't really make sense if what you said is true.

yeah its taken from the total salary. not the salary against the cap.

I'm actually pretty sure that in the trade window it was salary against the cap. My current salary against the cap was something like $34 million, while the total salary was a little over $40 million, but in the trade window, it showed the $34 million salary...

If you want to know what your cap situation looks like in your current season, and will look like the following season, go to the finances screen, click 'view' in the top right corner and select 'salary cap chart'. It breaks down which of your players count against the cap and for how much. Because things like staggered salaries and signing bonuses affect the cap in different ways you may be over or under what you expect to be. For example if you sign a player for 1 million for one season and 3 million the next, the cap hit averages out and will amount to 2 million each year. The only way to be sure how you stand with the cap is to check this screen, as other financial information is less detailed and sometimes misleading (like the contract chart shows total cost of players in the minors and on your roster, not cap room).

Thundercleese wrote:If you want to know what your cap situation looks like in your current season, and will look like the following season, go to the finances screen, click 'view' in the top right corner and select 'salary cap chart'. It breaks down which of your players count against the cap and for how much. Because things like staggered salaries and signing bonuses affect the cap in different ways you may be over or under what you expect to be. For example if you sign a player for 1 million for one season and 3 million the next, the cap hit averages out and will amount to 2 million each year. The only way to be sure how you stand with the cap is to check this screen, as other financial information is less detailed and sometimes misleading (like the contract chart shows total cost of players in the minors and on your roster, not cap room).

How does a signing bonus affect the cap?

Woody19 wrote: How does a signing bonus affect the cap?

I'm fairly sure it's averaged for the length of the contract, i.e. if you give someone a 3-year-deal worth $1 million a year, with a $150,000 bonus, the cap hit is $1,050,000 each season. The contract offer page seems to have this wrong -- it adds the entire bonus directly to the salary, thus saying that this example contract would have a cap hit of $1,150,000, which is, as far as I can tell, not true.

I've been meaning to ask about this in the SI forum for ages, but always forgot...

Thundercleese wrote that if you sign someone to a 1 million dollar contract,and then a 3 million dollar contract the cap hit would average it out to 2 million dollars per year.what is the difference then between that and offering 2 million per year for two years?why would you want to do it the other way.By looking at the answers to my origonal question, I think a lot of people are unsure on this aspect of the game and would benifit from a manual on this subject.

The Senator wrote:Thundercleese wrote that if you sign someone to a 1 million dollar contract,and then a 3 million dollar contract the cap hit would average it out to 2 million dollars per year.what is the difference then between that and offering 2 million per year for two years?why would you want to do it the other way.

As far as the cap is concerned, there is no difference. The situation where it might make a difference is one where your board doesn't give you enough money to even reach the cap. If they give you $38 million of spending money and your wage costs without this guy are $35 million a year, signing him to a 2-year, 2 million/year deal means you can get one additional million-dollar man for two seasons. Giving him a front-loaded contract with $3million now and just one next year, means you have to tank now and do without outside help, but next year you can sign a $2-million guy.