The salary cap is the ceiling on what your roster can cost. Every contract on your team counts against it, and the space left over — your cap space — is what you have to sign free agents, absorb salary in trades, and bid on waivers. Managing that space is the game inside the game.
One budget, not two
Unlike most fantasy platforms, Capr has no separate FAAB budget. Your cap is your bidding budget: when you bid on a free agent, the bid amount becomes the player's contract salary and lands on your cap. This is why cap discipline matters all season — the team hoarding cap space in October is the team that wins the waiver war in November.
It's a hard cap
The cap is enforced to the dollar. There's no soft cap, no luxury tax, no going one dollar over. Capr blocks any move that would put you above the cap before it happens.
Cap size and floor
| Setting | Default | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salary cap | 200 | 200–10,000 | Total cap per team. Also your bidding budget for waivers and auctions. |
| Cap floor | Off | — | Optional minimum percentage of the cap each team must spend — keeps rebuilders from fielding bare rosters. |
| Cap rollover | Off | Up to 15% of cap by default | When on, unspent cap carries into next season, up to the configured maximum. |
Bigger caps (1,000+) give you finer-grained salaries and more room for creative contracts; the 200 default keeps numbers small and readable. Both play the same — pick the scale your league likes to talk in.
Two kinds of escalation
Each new season, two separate escalators fire, and the difference between them is the engine of long-term strategy. Cap escalation (default 10%) grows the league-wide cap ceiling, like the real NFL cap rising each year. Contract escalation (default 12%) raises every existing contract's salary year over year.
Because contracts grow slightly faster than the cap by default, long deals get more expensive in real terms as they age — a contract that looked cheap in year one has to keep earning its keep in year three. That's deliberate: it stops teams from locking up a roster forever and forgetting about it.