Salary Cap Drafts are based on a limited budget 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. John Tavares and Carey Price 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 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 draft any player, as long as they have the available funds
• Leagues that use the Salary Cap mode to draft are setup with a preset budget ($260) to spend on a set number of players (17-man roster)
• Standard Leagues will have preset default Salary Cap values assigned to all players in the pool
• League Manager leagues have the option to edit the player default Salary Cap values to be loaded in the draft application prior to the draft start
• This page can be accessed via the “Edit Salary Cap Draft Values” link on the main “My Team” page
• Once a player is nominated for Salary Cap, the offering begins
• Team managers can offer any monetary value that their budget permits
  • Offers continue until there is a single remaining high offer. The system will then alert team managers and the winning team will have money 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.
• Salary Cap salaries DO NOT carry over into “in-season” mode. There is no advantage in finishing the draft with a remaining budget!