Salary Cap

[dkalphy]

There's been a grey area in terms of player contracts, and unfortunately unlike other codes such as the NBA where you can simply find player contracts to the exact dollar, and if a team is over/under their salary cap from a simple google search, the AFL doesn't allow the public such access to this information.

To avoid the nitty gritty stuff, in short the AFL salary cap will continue to rise, and the recent CBA agreement meant player salary would increase by 20% on average, in-turn increasing club salary caps from $10.37m to $12.45m, and player salarys from $309,000 to $371,000. By the next CBA agreement, in 2022 this will continue to exponentially increase where players will on average be earning in the 400k range.

Now to understand how clubs are able to stay under the salary cap, its important to note that players who have served for 10+ years at a club can receive payments that dont count towards a team salary cap, under the "veterans" policy. A player such as a Shannon Hurn would fit this criteria, and also Nic Natanui will join that list at the years end. This is why his contract was designed to end during his 10 year tenure, therefore when we resign him this year he will still get paid, but it wont affect our salary cap. Players such as Hurn and Naitanui have up to 50% of their salary affecting the clubs salary cap, the more players their are under the veterans policy the percentage drops, and the salary will eat up the clubs salary more and more.

In addition, club need to spend 95% of the their budget on the team, "salary floor".

 

[WCE_phil]

There's been a grey area in terms of player contracts, and unfortunately unlike other codes such as the NBA where you can simply find player contracts to the exact dollar, and if a team is over/under their salary cap from a simple google search, the AFL doesn't allow the public such access to this information.

To avoid the nitty gritty stuff, in short the AFL salary cap will continue to rise, and the recent CBA agreement meant player salary would increase by 20% on average, in-turn increasing club salary caps from $10.37m to $12.45m, and player salarys from $309,000 to $371,000. By the next CBA agreement, in 2022 this will continue to exponentially increase where players will on average be earning in the 400k range.

Now to understand how clubs are able to stay under the salary cap, its important to note that players who have served for 10+ years at a club can receive payments that dont count towards a team salary cap, under the "veterans" policy. A player such as a Shannon Hurn would fit this criteria, and also Nic Natanui will join that list at the years end. This is why his contract was designed to end during his 10 year tenure, therefore when we resign him this year he will still get paid, but it wont affect our salary cap. Players such as Hurn and Naitanui have up to 50% of their salary affecting the clubs salary cap, the more players their are under the veterans policy the percentage drops, and the salary will eat up the clubs salary more and more.

In addition, club need to spend 95% of the their budget on the team, "salary floor".

It used to be a 50% discount in regards to veterans. It is my understanding it's now a max 100k discount applied per player per year against the salary cap. In saying that someone else mentioned with the last CBA and salary cap change that may have been removed as well.

 

[Kwality]

its important to note that players who have served for 10+ years at a club can receive payments that dont count towards a team salary cap, under the "veterans" policy.

You sure?
What did the Eagles spend last year? Are we under or over on our spend going forward?