What happens if you re-sign a coach......and it takes you to negative cash flow. What will happen on the next cycle?

The deal won't go through. My strategy is to start by offering min contracts to position coaches to free up cash, then go after the coordinators and head coach.

wouldnt giving a deal to your head coach free up cash so you could get coordinators and positions coaches ?

do you have to do it in the matter you said??

just seems so bothersome if you have to free up cash only by doing position coaches 1st then top of coaching staff next.

Oh, Punisher.

Coordinators and Position Coaches are pretty inconsequential. It's all about the Head Coach, His Playbook and whatever success his high ratings may derive for your team. The other coaches may have some value with draft picks developing (I guess) but coaching has never been refined enough to have it effect outcomes.

Infinity's pouring his assets at the top of the food chain (Head Coach) and letting the rest fall where they may. Why allocate resources to barely influential positional coaches? :(

Yeah, the position coaches are where you find your cash savings. You don't need to pay a bunch of also-rans $5-10 million, which is the situation you find with most AI teams. After you clear the books, you can always go back and hire better position coaches at competitive rates.

New coaches get added to the pool late in the regular season. This is a good time to take a swing on a 30-year-old who isn't great overall but maybe has 80+ or 90+ in a key attribute.

Here is my situation. The last two seasons, I built the Parlor City Phantoms up from the bad news bears team they was. I scraped together a solid team without spending too much.... this let me zero out the dead cap and free up tons of cap room. We also got lucky and won the LC last season. So what I did with most of the free cap room is spend it...........bringing in a few more high skill players. A few of my high level players were also in their last year of their contract.... so my strategy was to go and make sure I keep those players first... so I already renewed a few of their contracts that start next season. Now I have only a few thousand left in cap room. I am thinking the cap room is still connected to "Cash Flow" when it comes to hiring, or renewing coaches contracts.

Well my head coach is good for now. I do not need to resign him, but 8 other coaches need to be resigned, including the offensive coordinator. Tyrone Acosta is my offensive coordinator rated higher than my head coach with an 86 overall. Now I am worried we might lose him to FA and even Erika Badu was pounding on my office door yesterday. When I opened it up she said, "You better caaaaaaaaall Tyyyyyyyyyrone........ Call him!" Don't really want to lose him, but I did not realize how many coaches I need to resign until a few days ago. I don't even think I have enough cash flow to resign any of the position coaches for dirt cheap. What can I do?

Cap room has nothing to do with coaches salary pool. I think the coach money comes from attendance but idk for sure. The thing to do is what's already been said, hire some young position coaches at cheap contracts and spend big on a HC.

If you have no money for coaches, then find one of your high salary position coaches and fire him, replacing him with someone young and cheap. Coaches are not a huge factor in the game. Yes they influence player development some, but like Smirt said, the HC is the one who matters because of his playbook. The position coaches aren't much more than window dressing/a pool of candidates to promote from within.

I like hiring position coaches whose arrows are pointing up (coaches have rating swings just like players) and have them develop. In later years when HC's and coordinators retire, you'll be able to promote from within rather than poach.

Looking at the cap situation for your players, I think you're in OK shape. You can squeeze in a couple more extensions if you really need, and you should have about enough to cover your draft picks next year. You just won't be a mover and shaker in free agency.

Regarding coaches, the only guy you need to be concerned about right now is your OC, because he's good enough to want to hang onto. I think you can extend him without giving him any extra this year (in other words, no effect on your coach cap). Your position coaches with expiring contracts are all expendable. For example, you're paying $6.3M to a secondary coach whose m2m and b&r ratings are in the low 60s.