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Originally Posted by InChiefsHeaven
So I assume the cap will go up as a result as well right? Did it go up when we went to 17 games a couple years ago?
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Yeah, the cap has been going up fast. In fact, if I was part of the player's union I'd demand a change to the salary cap calculations. If the owners want to increase the workload for the players, then the players are entitled to more money for that increased workload and the inherently increased risk.
Currently, they calculate the salary cap each year as 48% of the certain league revenues divided by 32, but since that league revenue figure is calculated using the prior year's revenue, the players appear to be getting only about 44% of the revenue in a given year.
The current cap for 2025 is approximately $279 million. That implies that the revenue figure used was $581 million. However, that revenue figure was for 2024 while the salary cap is for 2025. If we look at the salary cap for 2024 which was $255 million, then we see that the players were only paid 43.8% of the revenue that was generated in 2024.
The salary cap is going up by huge amounts every year now, so the larger the revenues get, and therefore the salary cap too, the smaller the percentage gets for the players vs. the actual revenues of that particular year.
Therefore, if I was a player, I would want that percentage to be raised to something like 51-52% to make up for the lag between revenue generation and salary cap reward. This would be particularly important when the NFL is trying to increase the workload on the players to generate more revenue.