Quoting: Ledge_And_Dairy
You were right about the accrued cap, Klefblom hasn't played in so long I completely forgot about him. The 200k was from the player in player out difference.
No accrued cap space is reverse prorating. Each team is given a budget of 83.5M and they can never exceed it unless they use LTIR. Over the course of the season they pay off each player off bit by bit and a percentage of their cap hit is reduced each day (depending on how many days are in the season but usually about 180). The call it accrued cap space because it is easier to calculate the cap total cap you can add at the deadline equal to the players initial cap hit than it is calculate every players prorated cap hit. For example Dallas started the season with $457,171 in cap space. Their projected TLD cap space assuming no changes is $2,041,322. This year the season is 192 days long and the TDL is on day March 8th which is day 151/192 making it 78.6% of the season complete, meaning there will be 21.4% remaining 21.4% x $2,041,322 = $435,907, which is roughly the Stars season starting cap space. The difference in 22k would be their transactions so far this season
Yeah, you have it about 80% right.
There's a bit of confusion from how you've written it again. Accrual is the cap space earned through the regular season by the pro-rated cap hits/salaries of the individual player, each day of the season it is added, You're not reversing the days remaining in the season, you're subtracting the days that have already passed.
Also, you've altered Puckpedia's breakdown in a way that doesn't work. You cannot calculate the accrued cap space using the team's cap hit overall, you have to use the individual players' cap hits. You might wonder what the difference is, but when you have players who are only up for a day vs. players who are up all season it adds up.
It's not Ax + Bx + Cx = Dx
It's Aw + Bx + Cy = Dz