But he will not have an effective salary floor. That's the point. I've also had a similar problem. You (jeff) should check your economy page on Monday after the financial update. If your salaries are in total lower than the salary floor, then by all means you should not see the amount of the floor deducted from your account. As you said, new teams don't have to pay a minimum total salary for the whole team for the first 16 weeks.