Meanings
- USuncountablebusinessThe study or science of salary caps, the rules regulating the total amount of player compensation.
Caps create a pseudoscience, "capology," where it seems that everyone tries to avoid it.
2005, Walter T. Champion, Sports Law: Cases, Documents, and Materials, page 1882 more examples
The 'Team Payroll Range System" and the "upper limit" now require skilled "capology" as managers must calculate the "payroll room" available at particular times, familiarize themselves with the detailed accounting rules that deal with the averaging of payments and comply with other linits on compensation.
2010, John Barnes, The law of hockey, page 403The leaders of our capology division were our president, Bob Vander Weide, who has an extremely acute financial mind, player personnel director John Gabriel, and director of finance Scott Herring.
2014, Pat Williams, Ahead of the Game: The Pat Williams Story
Origin
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