A salary cap draft is a budgeting problem disguised as a draft. Iron Tuna prices every player to your cap, tracks how the room is spending, and keeps your remaining budget working as hard as possible.

Salary cap drafts reward discipline, not nerve

In a salary cap, or auction, draft, you are not picking in turn, you are allocating a fixed budget across a full roster. Every dollar you overspend on one player is a dollar missing from another slot. The managers who win are not the ones who land the biggest name, they are the ones whose last roster spot still has real points in it. A salary cap draft tool's whole job is to protect that last dollar.

Spend the whole cap, on purpose

Iron Tuna builds a budget-aware plan that turns your cap into the strongest legal starting lineup, then shows you the dollar allocation behind it. You can see, before the draft, roughly how much should go to your top three starters versus depth, and you can flex that with a stars-and-scrubs or balanced slider. During the draft, the plan re-solves after every purchase so you never strand money you should have spent or overcommit early and get priced out of a starter.

• Every player priced to your exact cap, roster, and scoring
• Live tracking of money off the board and each team's remaining cap
• Position scarcity, so you know where the cheap points are still hiding
• A reserve for your final roster spots, so you are never forced into $0 dead slots

Read the room's cap, not just yours

The other managers' budgets are public information you can use. When two teams are out of money, the remaining players go cheap, and a disciplined manager pounces. Iron Tuna tracks every team's remaining cap so you can see those value windows opening before the rest of the table notices, and time your nominations to drain rivals while wallets are still full.

Start free

Get your salary-cap-adjusted custom auction values for free, no signup. For the live cap tracker, opponent budgets, and dynamic max bids during the draft, Draft Night Mode is a one-time $14.99. Prefer to read how the live help works first? See the auction draft assistant.