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Colby,Have we given up the idea of adopting the cap values you quoted from the New Era League as the "new" starting points prior to implementing this change?
At the end of each season, we combine how the team did (STAND) with their existing cap ranking (CAPR) to determine the value that season will have on their future cap numbers (did they gain or lose cap?). Lets call that RETURN.RETURN[2009] = Max(0.8CAPR(2009),Min(1.2CAPR(2009),3*CAPR(2009) + STAND(2009))To calculate a team's salary cap in any season, we take the simple average of their past three seasons return, skipping the most recent (so we can always forecast one extra into the future):CAP[2011] = RETURN[2007] + RETURN[2008] + RETURN[2009]For the 2007 and 2008 seasons, where we do not have FGM standings, we can either use the actual MLB standings, or just a straight payroll number.
Instead calculating the salary cap one year further in advance:CAP[n] = AVERAGE(CAP[n-4],CAP[n-3],CAP[n-2])**** for seasons where an FGM cap cannot be calculated using the quoted CAPR formula, actual MLB salary is used.That way we'll always know our cap situation for the current and following seasons.
In 2011, the league will feature variable salary caps for all teams based on the three-year average (2008-2010) payroll (as of beginning of playing season) + $20m. The 2009 and 2010 seasons will be numbers from Franchise GM that we have whereas 2008 will be the actual payroll number for the 2008 teams.Use those cap numbers, movement between cap values would be based on the following formula.Cap ranking (CAPR) - 1st for highest cap, 30th for lowest from above listStandings (STAND) - 1st for WS champ, 9th for best team out of playoffs, 30th for worst team in MLBCAPR(2010) = Max(0.8CAPR(2009),Min(1.2CAPR(2009),3*CAPR(2009) + STAND(2009))* see there are 20% bound restrictions.The new cap ranking is then hooked up with the new 3-year average + $20m. This gives the weighting 25% to performance and 75% to current market status.