Greetings (and Merry Christmas!),

I am trying to figure out how the Franchise Payroll is actually calculated, first for my own team but also how you can see this number for other teams. When I look at the "Franchise Payroll Analysis" report for my team, it shows a bunch of players, and a total at the bottom right. But, this number never matches the "Season X Used:" amount at the very bottom of the page in the footer. In my case, the "Used" number is about $10mm more for my teams than the total from all the players on the report. How/where is this actual "Used" number calculated? This is my main question.

Secondarily, since the total at the bottom-right of the report for my team is different from the real total, when you look at other teams is their total on the Franchise Payroll report also different from the true total? Since the report for other teams doesn't include the bottom section shown for our own teams, is there somewhere to see the true total for other teams?

What I'm really trying to do is figure out how much money each team has available - if they transferred from player payroll and paid the 50% tax - for IFAs late in the season. Is there a simple way to see this amount for each team? If so, I'd still like to know how the true payroll is calculated for my team, but wouldn't have to analyze all the other teams manually.

For clarity, here is the bottom of the Franchise Payroll report for one of my teams...

Totals - - $0 $36,013,092 $-22,683,728 $13,329,364

Player Payroll
Season 16: Budget: $45,500,000 Used: $24,662,329

Thanks for your help!

It looks like you have a little over $11M in your minors. The $24M number is the $13M for your ML team and whatever you have in your MiL teams.

You have this much in the minors and majors. Have you offered $1,899,964 to a player or sent that in a trade offer?

ML	$ 13,329,364
AAA	$ 5,371,456
AA	$ 1,907,633
HiA	$ 775,201
LoA	$ 1,078,923
Rk	$ 299,788
Total	$ 22,762,365

Perfect...thanks for clarifying...never noticed the "All" as one of the level selections on the report. Thanks for the help!

and, the $1.9mm is an offer currently to an IFA.

A good way to check other franchises is 1) the budget page will show transfers as $x($y) or 2) go to trade page and do mock trades (just don't hit submit) by putting different teams in the trade with and you'll see what they have available at the bottom