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Performance Bonuses Overage & 7.5% Cushion

Asked Oct 18, 2020 by Nick

Are performance bonuses (PB) for a given season counted against a team's cap for the season being played, or are they counted against the next season's cap?
- Are PB monies paid out following a season (the following offseason) counted in aggregate against a team's 10% "supercap" overage? Or are they just considered overages for the specific days that they are paid out on? 
- Are teams granted a max cushion of penalty-free 7.5% cap overage, or are they not? (That 7.5% figure appears on this site under another response to a PB query)

Answer

Oct 23, 2020
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