Updated today. Includes Bengston at 120k. Would love to know how big the transfer fee was and how many years it will be amortized in the DP budget. If it was not huge, the Revs could have all three DP slots open next year. http://www.mlsplayers.org/salary_info.html
Top 5 paid Revs (guaranteed comp) 1. Feilhaber $446K 2. Alston, $169K 3. Reis $160K 4. Rowe $156K 5. Moreno, $149K Well done, Burns. Most teams have key players in the 200-300K range. Not us.
I'm hoping to have the time later today, but anyone have the chance now to come up with where we stand on the cap? Our top 20 players?
That list is embarrassing. The fact that we only have one player making over $200k is probably indicative of our performance thus far this year, huh? Here's how I look at our current situation: 1. Overpaid primadonna 2. Kevin Alston (seriously, Kevin Alston?!?) 3. 37 year old goalkeeper 4. Rookie 5. Out of shape bum who never wanted to come here in the first place.
Going by the rules and regulations listed here... Here's what our cap figure looks like (with the current players, at their current salaries, and not including GA or DAP), in thousands: Alston-169 Barnes-69.313 Boggs-44.1 Cardenas-99.996 Feilhaber-350 Gavin-80 Guy-44.1 Lechner-48.104 McCarthy-82.95 Moreno-149 Nguyen-50.5 Nyassi-90.75 Reis-159.667 Sene-148.844 Shuttleworth-44.1 Simms-78.333 Soares-116.45 Tierney-74.792 Bengtson-350 Imbongo-50 Brettschneider - Off-Budget Player Fagundez - DAP Murray - Off-Budget Player Polak - GA Purdie - Off-Budget Player Roach - Off-Budget Player Rowe - GA I freely admit I'm making a guesstimate on Imbongo. The 20 players on the "senior roster" add up to a whopping $2.3m. The expected cap for 2012 was around $2.8m. The numbers above obviously don't include Joseph, but then again, I've included a full year for Bengtson, so those even out. Lozano's half year could have been used, but that didn't fit the parameters I set above.
I did not see Bengston in your list above. I may have missed him. What is DAP by the way? But that being said, I think Benston makes less at a full year salary (120) that SJ would have at half a season (175). Also, while we may never know for sure I have to think the Revs are paying some of his salary to help facilitate the trade.
Edited: Going by the rules and regulations listed here... Here's what our cap figure looks like (with the current players, at their current salaries, and not including GA or DAP), in thousands: Alston-169 Barnes-69.313 Boggs-44.1 Cardenas-99.996 Feilhaber-350 Gavin-80 Guy-44.1 Lechner-48.104 McCarthy-82.95 Moreno-149 Nguyen-50.5 Nyassi-90.75 Reis-159.667 Sene-148.844 Shuttleworth-44.1 Simms-78.333 Soares-116.45 Tierney-74.792 Bengtson-350 Imbongo-80 Brettschneider - Off-Budget Player Fagundez - DAP Murray - Off-Budget Player Polak - GA Purdie - Off-Budget Player Roach - Off-Budget Player Rowe - GA Corrected for Imbongo. The 20 players on the "senior roster" add up to a whopping $2.33m. The expected cap for 2012 was around $2.8m. The numbers above obviously don't include Joseph, but then again, I've included a full year for Bengtson, so those even out. Lozano's half year could have been used, but that didn't fit the parameters I set above. Thanks, fixed. He's on the list, and DAP is development academy player, they don't count on the cap. I'm going by the rules I had listed, where the budget would be $175k... May be true, but can't include that in these numbers since we have no idea.
Bengston is only making $120K, but the transfer fee, which made him a DP, counts against the cap too, so he gets the DP cap charge of $175K for half a season.
Cap space is fantastic. When you're about $500k under at this point though, it doesn't help you much.
Kraft is going to sign a sweet wide receiver with that cap space. What? That cap space can't be carried over to football? Why the hell did I buy this team??
You have to figure in all the money paid to players who aren't here any more. I'm not sure if what was paid to Joseph balances out the extra half year you included for Bengston, but there's Lozano, Rjunstrom and White to figure in. Plus there are some other nuances, it's not quite as simple as your calculation (as Mike Burns loves to point out ). For some rough numbers, it's fine, but please don't use $500K under the cap as "fact".
In regards to Joseph, I did take exactly half his cap hit and put it to Bengtson, so those equal out. In regards to Rjunstrom and White, their half costs are covered by my putting in Imbongo at full cost. Those don't matter anyway since they were all miniscule. You can add $70k or so for Lozano if you want, doesn't really matter. As I'd noted "Here's what our cap figure looks like (with the current players, at their current salaries, and not including GA or DAP), in thousands:" Since we have no idea what the nuances are, and we see other teams spending way over us ... I think $500k is a safe figure and they could have gone higher (as other teams have)...
Ok, but KSG/theRevs have absolutely nothing to gain by dumping salary at this point. The only logical reason to do so is to open up space for other players. It's not like Shalrie was doing much anyway.
Same thing has been said repeatedly the past few years. I guess it depends on if you're thinking for this year, or next. We've got a good amount of money (don't want to use $500k as fact after all), and it's most likely really too late to bring in anyone that's going to a) cost you a lot and b) help all that much. So the money is there, for next year ... along with Moreno's salary I'm assuming, and some others (which will help cover the increase for Nguyen).
Let me reframe this: 1.) If the status quo remains for the rest of the season, MLS would distribute the remaining $500k under the budge equally (as described by the MLSPU). 2.) If we sign a player or two, MLS would pay the remaining budget space to that(those) player(s). In both scenarios, KSG has to pay approximately $26,000 max ($500,000/19teams) to the league during next years capital call.