All this would have been avoided if you had simply waited until after the cut down to 27 players to adjust the PB values for park effects. That was the best option.

Given how it is now, it seems fair to raise the cap slightly so that teams who may have gone over the cap simply due to the change in values are not penalized. This isn't perfect because its probable a few teams were adjusted downwards to being below the cap now, and they get rewarded for not having made the effort to comply earlier, which is too bad.

Worrying about teams trying to shave off a half point in PB value due to adjustmenst out of their control at this point doesn't impact the super-team "problem". So raise the cap a bit this time.

The bigger issue is for next year - although why I bother to bring this up is a valid question as you won't remember - but the current cap value should be in place and the current PB vlaues should be used until AFTER the cut down to 27 next year. Then run the park effect adjustments.

This way teams all year know that any trade they make, any talent they take on, impacts their cap value in a way everyone knows about. If a team wants to make moves to get below the cap the day the season ends they can and be done with it, when teams are even taking on tons of rookie picks they can figure out what might happen. No changes midway through the off-season, no weird artifacts of park adjustments. Its even for everyone this way.

Fred Cline