Salary Cap Drafts are based on a competing offer format and differ considerably from traditional Snake Live Drafts. In Salary Cap Drafts, teams have the chance to sign any player they want, as long as they have the available funds. Patrick Mahomes and Saquan Barkley could be signed by the same team, which would rarely happen in a Snake Draft, because both players are so early and close to one another in the Snake Draft ranking order.

• Salary Cap drafts are available to Standard and League Manager (LM) Leagues.
• The option for “Live Salary Cap Draft” will appear on the Draft Settings page once all teams have joined the league
• Teams have the chance to sign any player, as long as they have the available funds
• Leagues that use the Salary Cap mode to draft are set up with a preset budget ($200) to sign enough players to fill their roster.
• Standard Leagues will have preset default salary values assigned to all players in the pool
• LM Leagues have the option to edit the player default salary values to be loaded in the draft application prior to the draft start
• This page can be accessed via the "Edit Keeper Salaries" in the Keepers page
• Once a player is nominated for signing, the offer process begins
• Team managers can offer any monetary value that their budget permits
  • Team managers continue to submit offers until there is a single remaining high salary offer. The system will then alert team managers and the winning team will have the winning salary amount deducted from their budget.
  • This process repeats until every team’s roster is completely filled.
• When the draft is complete, the league will move into “in-season” mode where teams can start making roster moves, waiver claims, trades, etc.
• Unused budgets DO NOT carry over into “in-season” mode. There is no advantage in finishing the draft with a remaining budget!