Crunching Numbers: An Inside Look At The Salary Cap And Negotiating Player Contracts

by Jason Fitzgerald, Vijay Natarajan

Crunching Numbers is the perfect book to gain insight into sports most unique accounting system. It explores how the National Football League (NFL) operates and continues to define success.

Crunching Numbers goes into great detail to explain key concepts from the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) such as signing bonuses, dead money, free agency, salary guarantees, franchise tags, forfeitures, grievances, and many more. By using practical case player examples to illustrate the concepts within the CBA, readers will learn how to calculate a player’s salary cap number and the ways in which teams manipulate those numbers to work within the NFL rules. In addition, the book will explore ways to benchmark contracts and the roles contract negotiators play in today’s NFL.

Whether you are a student with aspirations of working in an NFL front office, a sports agent, a sports writer or just an avid fan, Crunching Numbers will help you better understand the intricacies of the NFL’s player’s contracts, the salary cap, and salary cap management.

For more information, please check out book website CrunchingNumbersBook.com

Genres: Sports, Football

305 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 27, 2016

About the author

Jason Fitzgerald is a 2:39 marathoner, USATF-certified coach, and author of 101 Simple Ways to be a Better Runner.

His coaching website, Strength Running, helps over 200,000 runners a month train smarter and race faster.

Reviews

[Jbussen · Rating 2 out of 5]

Meh. Not bad but certainly not good. Just the rules with no real way to see or a decent explanation of how to work a cap. Just some examples and some rules. I got this to understand how some teams can keep star players under the cap and not others. I still don't really know.

[Matthew Cullen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent look into the world of the NFL salary cap and player contracts.

[Darren Carmon · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent overview

[Alex Leischow · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very informative. Learned a lot.

[DMD · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting for aspiring ball knowers