The commissioner made himself a chart to see how teams are doing on their payroll budgets and thought he would share it with the GMs as we near the start of Season 17.

Here’s where we are:

Teams under the salary floor

(There is a penalty for not reaching the salary floor. See Rule 18 for details.)

• Athens
• Madrid

Teams under the limit your owner would like to see you under

• Belfast
• Bratislava
• Lisbon
• Liverpool
• Milan
• Stockholm

Teams under the league salary cap but above their owner’s limit

• Copenhagen
• Gothenburg
• Edinburgh
• Kosice
• Prague

Teams over the league salary cap, but under the suspension limit

(You will get less investment money next season as a penalty for going over the cap. See 25 – Team Payroll for details)

• Amsterdam
• Berlin
• Bern
• Dublin
• Helsinki
• London
• Munich
• Oslo
• Paris
• Zurich

Teams over the suspension limit

(If a team is over this limit, no one can play because the simulation will be blocked. It has happened before and we handled it with a house rule that was passed 20-4. For details, go to this story and see “Teams Holding Up Start of Season” )

• Minsk