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A fantasy salary cap draft works much like eBay, except that you offer on NFL players rather than antiques or gadgets. In a salary cap draft, each NFL player is assigned a unit value normally in dollars, and every fantasy team has a unit budget; each team must fill its roster requirements without going over budget. You can offer as much as you want for a player, as long as you still have enough units left to complete the rest of your roster. Often, but not always, these units are described as dollars.

For example, if you have a 20-player roster to fill and a budget of 200 dollars, the maximum you could offer for your first player would be 181 dollars, which would leave you with 1 dollar per player for the remaining 19 slots. However, this would be absurd and doing so would leave your fantasy team in lots of trouble!

A salary cap draft still has rounds — the number of rounds mirrors the number of roster spots — but instead of drafting a player when it’s your turn in a round, you nominate a player and start the offering at an amount of your choice. If no other team outoffers you, the player is yours. If another team makes a offer, the offering continues until no team surpasses the highest current offer; the player is awarded to the highest offerer. Each coach can nominate one player per round; this process continues until all the rosters are filled. (Chapter 4 has more info on preparing for a salary cap draft, and Chapter 8 gives you some strategies.)

Daily Fantasy Football almost exclusively uses a salary cap based format (which isn’t the same as salary cap drafts). DFS usually have a salary cap of $50-60K per contest, rather than the $200 commonly used in traditional fantasy leagues that use salary cap drafts to put together their rosters prior to the season. (For more on Daily Fantasy, see Part 4.)