The Salary Engine — Fantasy Dynasty
The only fantasy basketball platform that runs a real, automatic NBA-style economy — not a spreadsheet bolted on, but a CBA-faithful engine built into every league.
Most fantasy platforms track points. Fantasy Dynasty runs a front office. Every contract, every cut, every re-signing flows through a single financial engine that enforces the cap automatically — the same mechanics that make the real NBA off-season the best part of the year. The commissioner turns the rules on with a few toggles; the managers live them out, year after year.
What the engine runs, automatically
- Salary cap, floor & contracts — A real hard/soft cap with a salary floor and multi-year contracts (flat or escalating). Every roster move is checked against the cap in real time.
- Dead money & non-guaranteed years — Cutting a player leaves automatic dead cap. Non-guaranteed years carry no penalty if you waive in time — restructure your books like a real GM.
- Individual max salary — Star pay is tiered by years of service (25 / 30 / 35% of the cap), exactly like the CBA. No one can overpay a superstar into oblivion.
- Bird rights — Re-sign your own stars over the soft cap — three tiers (Full / Early / Non-Bird) by consecutive seasons on the roster, bounded by the max and never past the apron. The classic reason franchises keep their core together.
- Double apron & luxury tax — A configurable absolute ceiling no discretionary move can cross, with an opt-in first-apron tier of extra restrictions and a graduated luxury tax paid in next season's cap (repeater rule included). The hard lines that force real roster-building trade-offs.
- Cap exceptions (MLE / BAE / Room) — Over-the-cap teams still sign free agents through the real NBA exceptions — Mid-Level, Bi-Annual, Room — each sized as a % of the cap and assigned by each team's cap status. Minimum contracts always available.
- Sign-and-trade — Sign your own free agent straight into a trade — 3-4 year deal, Base Year Compensation on the matching math, receiving team hard-capped at the first apron. Straight out of a real NBA off-season.
- Restricted Free Agency — Tender a qualifying offer, rivals submit blind offer sheets, you match or let him walk — a true two-phase RFA, automated end to end.
- Options, holds & extensions for everyone — Club and player options (decided by a synthetic agent), the real rookie scale, max/super-max rookie extensions, veteran extensions, cap holds with renounce on every expiring free agent, and the stretch provision on cuts — the full contract lifecycle.
- NBA-style trade matching — Over-the-cap teams keep trading, exactly like real front offices: incoming salary must fit the real CBA matching formula (200% / Expanded TPE / 125%), with the apron as the hard wall. Opt-in per league.
- Waiver wire with claims — Cut a player and he clears through waivers first: the worst-ranked team can claim the whole contract before he reaches free agency — no dead cap for the team that let him go. Opt-in per league.
- Automatic off-season rollover — Contracts age a year, options resolve, rookie cap holds freeze after the lottery — the league rolls into the next season on its own.
FAQ
- Is the salary cap enforced automatically?
- Yes. Every bid, signing, trade and re-signing is validated against the cap, the apron and the player's individual maximum in real time — no commissioner spreadsheet required.
- Do I have to use all of it?
- No. Every layer — max salary, Bird rights, apron, RFA, extensions — is an independent toggle. Run a simple cap league, or the full CBA simulation. Your call.
- Does it work for WNBA too?
- Yes — the same engine powers first-class NBA and WNBA dynasty leagues.
- How much does it cost?
- Nothing. The full salary engine is free.
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