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[Guest]

And, whenever you reneg in the final year of a contract, the cap hit is the worst in the year of renegotiation. That's because you have (salary $) + (pro-rated bonus of new deal $) + (bonus you're already paying him). If a guy wanted 1/3/5 I would give him something like 2.6/2.6/2.6, or try to. Guys always inflate their offers in future years, but what they care about most is the year 1 money. I'm pretty sure the game is setup that they will take even salaries, because that's always what I do.

A lot of the time when I look at renegs it seems like there's a lesser cap hit in the current year of the reneg'd deal than the cap hit I would take otherwise, but maybe that's because I don't use a lot of science when I currently reneg. I mostly just give people what they want and don't game it much, which I probably should do.

[Aston]

Ahhh - I was going by what I usually do, which is make every year of the salary the same. That is what makes the first year hit the worst, at the benefit of future years. By default what many players ask for will ease their cap number this year for you and then tack it on in the later years.

You can still end up giving players what they want (or most of it) by moving the money around between the various years, and the bonus. If you have the cap room to take the hit now, then doing so can save you a lot (20-30%?) on the overall sum of the deal. I've had to really start paying attention to the contract stuff lately so that I don't wind up screwed or right on the line.