TDL Archived: The 2nd Rnd Pick Yankee Swap

[mvossman]

Good grief, why take us through that convoluted narrative when you can simply post numbers (these come from Spotrac plus the most logical assumptions for Maxi and Wood).  


    Player       Cap Cost
1  Luka          40,064,220
2  THJ  
3  Dinwiddie   21,028,570
4  Bertans  
5  Wood         17,000,000
6  DFS           13,394,160
7  Powell - 
8  Bullock       10,489,600
9  Maxi          10,800,000
10 McGee       5,734,280
11 Green        4,765,339
12 Hardy        1,719,864
13 Hold          1,100,000
14 Hold          1,100,000
15 Hold          1,100,000
 
                     128,296,033

Projected Cap  129,780,000
Cap Space       1,483,967

I think the projected cap is 133 so thats another 3 mil.  I think he is assuming no Green so that gets you 3.6 (salary - hold).  Then he has Maxi extension at almost 4 less than you do (which I think is unrealistic).  That gets you to almost 12.  Depending on the Maxi extension, you are looking at roughly the MLE.  That is a lot of cutting (Timmy, Bertans, Green, Frank) just to get an MLE you already have.

I get the concept of using cap space to facilitate trades, but I'm not sure 10 mil in cap space is that much better than the trade rules that lets you go over on trades.  You can get creative while over the cap too.

I feel like going this route is definitely a negative and the question is if a protected first is enough compensation.  Personally I think its in the ballpark, but I don't see any way either team does it.