CBA Lab

Roster rules,translatedinto human.

Drag players onto a roster and watch the budget react. Every number comes straight from the rulebook — switch seasons and it all recomputes.

Rules season

Roster model

DemoThe roster builder uses fictional demo players; every rule value is the league's real figure for the season — see Show Me the Rule.

Rules

Nope.

Your Senior Roster charges add up to $6,696,250. The 2026 Salary Budget is $6,425,000 — you're $271,250 over.

Third-DP fee waived: one of your Designated Players is a Young DP.
$2,000,000 of model-bonus GAM must be used by the Roster Freeze (2026-10-09).

Senior Roster

19/20

Counts against the budget

$803,125earns $6,800,000
$803,125earns $2,750,000
$200,000earns $1,650,000
$750,000~~$803,125~~
$750,000~~$803,125~~
$750,000~~$803,125~~
$150,000earns $320,000
$200,000earns $600,000
$150,000earns $275,000
$200,000earns $700,000
$340,000
$290,000
$250,000
$240,000
$205,000
$165,000
$150,000
$125,000
$175,000
Slot 20, Open

Counts against the Salary Budget. Slots 19–20 are optional; unfilled slots below 18 are imputed at a minimum charge.

Supplemental 21–24

4/4

Off budget · Senior Minimum $113,400

$113,400off budget
$150,000off budget
$113,400off budget
$113,400off budget

Senior Minimum Salary players (incl. Homegrowns), Generation adidas players, designated SuperDraft-eligible players, or Homegrowns earning more subject to the Homegrown aggregate.

Supplemental 25–30

4/6

Off budget · Reserve Minimum $88,025 · age ≤ 24

$88,025off budget
$88,025off budget
$88,025off budget
$88,025off budget
Slot 29, Open
Slot 30, Open

Reserve Minimum Salary players, 24 or younger during the League Year (by birth year).

Slot 31 (loan only)

0/1

Off budget · age ≤ 24

Slot 31, Open

Season-long loan to a lower-division U.S./Canadian club; charge ≤ Senior Minimum; no recall right exercised.

Bench

7 unassigned

$520,000charge $200,000
Assign Rafael Duarte to a slot
$1,650,000charge $803,125
Assign Diego Salcedo to a slot
$875,000charge $803,125
Assign Owen Gallagher to a slot
$1,000,000charge $803,125
Assign Jordan Achebe to a slot
$560,000
Assign Theo Lindqvist to a slot
$650,000
Assign Mikkel Sørensen to a slot
$88,025
Assign Malik Turner to a slot

2026 Salary Budget · $6,425,000104% used

Over by

$271,250

DP: 3/2
U22: 4/4
Intl: 8/8
Supp: 8/11
GAM left: $5.28M
TAM left: $1.025M

Nope.

Your Senior Roster charges add up to $6,696,250. The 2026 Salary Budget is $6,425,000 — you're $271,250 over.

Third-DP fee waived: one of your Designated Players is a Young DP.
$2,000,000 of model-bonus GAM must be used by the Roster Freeze (2026-10-09).

Nope

Over by$271,250

Nope.

Your Senior Roster charges add up to $6,696,250. The 2026 Salary Budget is $6,425,000 — you're $271,250 over.

Third-DP fee waived: one of your Designated Players is a Young DP.

$2,000,000 of model-bonus GAM must be used by the Roster Freeze (2026-10-09).

Nope.

Your Senior Roster charges add up to $6,696,250. The 2026 Salary Budget is $6,425,000 — you're $271,250 over.

Third-DP fee waived: one of your Designated Players is a Young DP.

$2,000,000 of model-bonus GAM must be used by the Roster Freeze (2026-10-09).