This season is season 15 in one of my leagues. My team has a very low salary with only 4 people on long term deals. I sent a trade request and got back a warning message that said this trade will violate player payroll in season 17. The projected payroll that season would be around 37M...what is that about? Is there a max you can have for seasons in advance? Is that max around 35M? That seems a little low...

It's based on your current season's payroll. The higher it is now, the higher it will be next season, and 2 seasons from now, etc.

If your payroll budget in season "n" is "x", then your salary cap for future seasons is:

n+1 = x * .80

n+2 = x * .70

n+3 = x * .60

n+4 = x * .50

This is to prevent owners from tying up future seasons with too much guaranteed money.

Just think of all the one and done owners before wondering about future seasons payrolls.

Yea it's a shame bc 21 of my 25 guys are making 600k and below..

Thanks for the replies...