Trying to Keep Track of Sporting Kansas City's Salary Budget

The rules to the salary cap are fairly complicated. This is my attempt to keep track of it for Sporting Kansas City.

Only roster spots 1-20 are counted towards the cap, 19 and 20 are "optional" spots (meaning you can fill spots 21-30 before you have to fill 19 and 20), and GA players don't count towards the cap. Any one player can only contribute up to $350,000 to the salary cap as well. Sporting Kansas City's salary spots currently look like this (as of 12/12/12 which includes the Feilhaber and Opara trades)

1	Feilhaber, Benny	400,000
2	Nagamuro, Paulo	250,000
3	Collin, Aurelien	210,000
4	Kamara, Kei	210,000
5	Convery, Bobby	200,000
6	Nielson, Jimmy	200,000
7	Zusi, Graham	105,000
8	Opara, Ike	100,000
9	Besler, Matt	91,751
10	Myers, Chance	86,000
11	Peterson, Jacob	81,000
12	Kronberg, Eric	69,850
13	Dwyer, Dom	60,000
14	Sinovic, Seth	60,000
15	Thomas, Michael	55,000
16	Gardner, Josh	54,120
17	Kempin, Jonathan	46,500
18	Joseph, Peterson	44,100

Which puts the total salary budget at $2,273,321. Now, we would expect Feilhaber, Opara, and Gardner to take some pay cuts (mostly Feilhaber), but we would also expect that Besler got quite a bit of a raise when he was re-signed this morning (although the pic Robb took wasn't sharp enough for me to tell ;) ). Let's just call it a net wash between those four players so far.

$2,273,321. So we still have over half a million in cap space BEFORE we pay any of it down with allocation money.