EHM The Blue Line

Now that the first deadline for the 7.1 challenge has passed(look out for bonus points in 20 minutes or so!) I was hoping you guys could give me your thoughts on the salary cap we've imposed.
Is it too low, or too high?
What about season 2, if you're carrying on with the LA Kings challenge how are you finding the 2nd season with the cap, again is it too high or too low?

Please keep this thread to discussion about the salary cap only, any other questions can be posted in the other thread(s)

Even though I accidentally saved over top of my Kings game, I was still able to get in 40 games or so I think. Anyways, I didn't think that this cap was too hard or too easy, but just right I suppose. It was definitely challenging to keep it low but it was something new and I liked it.

I think that we as challenge players should vote on proposed salary caps for future challenges though.

This Kings challenge was definitely a 'beta test' of the custom salary cap, I'm glad you found it to be ok, and I'm glad you found it challenging to keep it low(that was the whole point!).

With respect to the voting, it's definitely something I'll bear in mind, however if everyone says that the current one is fine then it'll most likely remain the same

Calv wrote:With respect to the voting, it's definitely something I'll bear in mind, however if everyone says that the current one is fine then it'll most likely remain the same

The cap with the Kings was fine, but depending on the team we may need to raise or even lower the cap more. Like Washington for example; they have a lot of good young talent, you really don't need to make many trades to make them cup contenders. So in their case, maybe an even lowering cap would be needed. But now take say Phoenix, they have some players with fairly large contracts who aren't really all that good, and some are even hard to trade. So maybe for them we wouldn't need to change the cap.

Now I know we've already had a Washington challenge, but I'm just using these 2 teams as examples. Overall, I'm really pleased with the challenges. I'm just throwing out some ideas and maybe they'll spark some different ideas from the other members.

I liked having the salary cap on this challenge. It was a nice change to have to try to use youngers players almost exclusively. The Kings team we started with had a lot of older players with high salaries, so we had a lot of trading to do to trim the payroll. It was fun.

I haven't started the second season yet because when I finished the first season, I immediately started my Bruins blog. I'm guessing we'd need a little more of a budget to resign the players we just traded for. It seems a large majority of the players in the game start with being under contract for just the current season. So all those players that were playing for less than $1M a year are now wanting a lot more, especially after the success I had with them. Then again, if we didn't have much more of a budget we'd be forced to make further trades to get back under budget again.

I was thinking of increasing the cap by $2mil in the 2nd season, what do you guys think about that?

Calv wrote:I was thinking of increasing the cap by $2mil in the 2nd season, what do you guys think about that?

That sounds like a reasonable amount.

I like the cap where it is, but I'm all for raising it for the 2nd season.

I have to say, I found the Cap rule very enjoyable as well.

Cheers.

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So, with the next challenge about to begin, will the salary cap actually increase to 38m in the second season ?

yep the cap will be $38mil in the 2nd season