# Option to round down?

**URL:** <https://community.ottoneu.com/t/option-to-round-down/12809>\
**Category:** Baseball Rules\
**Created:** [March 13, 2023, 9:06pm UTC](https://community.ottoneu.com/t/option-to-round-down/12809 "2023-03-13T21:06:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![naandre](https://community.ottoneu.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@naandre](https://community.ottoneu.com/u/naandre)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2023, 9:06pm UTC](https://community.ottoneu.com/t/option-to-round-down/12809/1 "2023-03-13T21:06:51Z")

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Has giving leagues the option to have the cap hits for player cuts round down to the nearest dollar ever been considered? I feel like having the cap hit for $1 players round down to zero is more in-line with how salary caps work in real-life sports leagues where there are almost always cap exemptions for adding players on league minimum contracts. While I’m sure opinions will differ I would personally find it more fun to be able to churn the bottom of my roster. Also it sucks being capped out and hit with a rash of injuries where you get stuck either having to make a trade or exposing a better player to waivers to pick up someone to temporarily fill a lineup spot.

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**Author:** ![legendaryan](https://community.ottoneu.com/user_avatar/community.ottoneu.com/legendaryan/32/3002_2.png) [@legendaryan](https://community.ottoneu.com/u/legendaryan)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2023, 9:59pm UTC](https://community.ottoneu.com/t/option-to-round-down/12809/2 "2023-03-13T21:59:59Z")

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> [@naandre](#):
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> Also it sucks being capped out and hit with a rash of injuries where you get stuck either having to make a trade or exposing a better player to waivers to pick up someone to temporarily fill a lineup spot.

This sounds much more like real-life than being able to chug freely through free agents. I’d rather ottoneu continue to reward the owners better at navigating this situation.

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**Author:** ![nivshah](https://community.ottoneu.com/user_avatar/community.ottoneu.com/nivshah/32/613_2.png) [@nivshah](https://community.ottoneu.com/u/nivshah)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2023, 10:18pm UTC](https://community.ottoneu.com/t/option-to-round-down/12809/3 "2023-03-13T22:18:31Z")

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Making cap penalties go down to $0 was considered back in 2006 when Ottoneu started out and just made the game entirely too easy. The $1 min cap penalty adds a surprising amount of depth for such a simple rule that we haven’t considered changing it ever since.