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Originally Posted by Astros Fan in Cali
I have had this problem when trying to negotiate an extension. Here's how it went down: I had about 32 million to sign extensions and offered 15 in year one of a four year deal to my star SS. He replied that I needed to seriously up my offer or he was going to test free agency. I decided to up my year one offer to 18 million. However, my owner did not approve because he said I only has 17 million with which to sign extensions for next year (the original 32 less the 15 previously offered) When I lowered the first year to 17 million the owner gave approval. The SS signed the second offer, but I did not recover the original 15 million to offer extensions to other players. My owner (the AI) took the position that I had spent all my money already!
This is with the 1.02 WIP patch.
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I've had problems very similar to the above and others mentioned in this thread. At the end of my first year of play the game indicated that I had about $80 million available for player contracts. I offered contracts totaling about $68 million and players signed contracts totaling about $30 million. I never heard back from the other free agents and I never received back the money offered in those contracts.
For awhile I had $12 million (the original 80 less the 68 oferred) left for contracts but that money dissappeared sometime in early February without me having signed anyone. After the next season started the money available for FA contracts slowly increased as the season progressed but the owner would not approve any major league deals for quite awhile even for the minimum.
It is now early August and the money available is about $26 million according to the message I get but the owner will not approve a deal for more than about $2 million.
If the game is working the way it is supposed to it is very hard to understand what is going on and how much money is actually available for signing players. I think it would be easier and more realistic if owners just gave you a budget instead of having it vary sometimes on a day to day basis. Also, money shouldn't be lost just from offerring a deal if the player does not sign. It would be good if players also responded when declining an offer or otherwise there should be a method to retract an offer or at least a way to find out when an offer has expired.