2007 Salary Cap help:

EMan77 · 04-13-2007, 01:30 AM

Ok, here's what happened. I'm playing NHL 2007, an Atlanta Thrashers dynasty. After completing the first season and the draft/free agent period, I got ready for season number 2.

Before the first game of the year against Tampa Bay, I checked my finances. I was 2 million UNDER the salary cap (the cap said it was 46 million, I figured that after each season it gets a little boost). I played the game against the Lightning, won in OT, and got ready for the next game against Florida.

I did NOT sign any new players between the Lightning game and the Panther one. I did not restructure any contracts. I did nothing with my salaries, and yet instead of being 2 million under the cap like I was at the Lightning game, I'm now suddenly just about a million OVER it. The game will not let me play the 2nd game against the Panthers. Interestingly enough, the Panthers (and quite a few other teams) are also over the cap themselves (the Panthers are way over, at 49 million. But computer teams don't have to worry about the salary cap, do they?

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So is this a bug? Did the game inflate my salary cap and then remove the extra cap room after the first game?

Oh, and I tried editing players salaries in NHLView. I brought Hossa and Kovalchuk salaries down a bit (about a million each), but it still says I'm over. (Yes, I saved in NHLView after making the changes.)

DSgamby · 04-13-2007, 02:33 AM

edit your team salary in NHL View. This is what effects the Salary Cap

EMan77 · 04-13-2007, 03:26 AM

I could try that. I've only tried editing specific player contracts.

Will the game mess up if the salaries of my players doesn't add up to the total team salary if I change it?

DSgamby · 04-13-2007, 01:20 PM

not that I am aware of.

sp4585 · 06-19-2007, 12:30 AM

A solution I found to get the game to automatically recalculate your team salary after making adjustments in NHL View is to release a scrub IN the game (re-sign him if you want). The game is forced to recalculate the sum of your players' salaries.

This is also the problem if you edit your teams total Salary Expense in NHL View because it will only hold until you make another transaction.

The whole salary issue in NHL 07 is really frustrating me because every offseason, a ridiculous number of all-stars go un-signed and just sit on free agency forever until I go into NHL View and just throw them on somebody's roster for that season. It's getting old. They need to borrow some salary cap formulas and math from their EA friends over at Madden. You'd never EVER see a star equivelent to Eric Staal or Miika Kiprusoff just sit on free agency because their isn't AI enough to adjust their asking price or chop off un-needed roster fat from a team and make a move.