Make the complicated uncomplicated

Capmath is a free salary-cap site built on a computation engine that models the real rules: active contracts, dead money, free-agent cap holds, draft-pick holds, and the salary cap, luxury tax, and first and second apron lines. It renders every team's cap picture from live data, and every number can explain itself.

It is built for two readers at once. A casual fan gets the instant answer in plain English. A cap nerd can open any figure and see the rule, the inputs, and the math behind it. Same page, two depths.

The brand covers pro sports caps generally. The content live today is the NBA: all 30 teams, the full glossary, the league trackers, and the Ask the Cap chat. More leagues come later.

The NBA cap is a soft cap with a thicket of exceptions, holds, and apron penalties. That complexity is exactly why most explanations either oversimplify until they're wrong or drown you in tables. The old canonical reference for these rules has gone quiet just as the apron era made them harder than ever. Capmath exists to be the living version: current, interactive, and tied to real team numbers, not a static FAQ.

Every number comes from the engine, never from memory or a guess, so pages can't drift apart and we can always show how a figure was built. We lead with the answer, then back it with the math. We don't claim our figures are official or accurate to the dollar, because the league doesn't publish team cap numbers and cap holds are estimates that reasonable sources read differently. Transparency is the standard, not a precision guarantee. How all of that is computed is laid out on the methodology page.

Capmath is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the NBA, the NBPA, or any team. Team and player names are used for identification only.

Questions, corrections, or partnership ideas: bobby@capmath.com. To flag a specific number, the corrections page is the fastest route.