[Neags23]

So I started a thread earlier this week about how long people set FA restrictions for. I decided to give 10 years a try and give players arbitration for the last 9 years of that.

I was going for kind of a tiered, gain salary with seniority kind of thing, with the better players earning more.

I had superstar players set on $9 million, stars $7 million, good players at $6 million, above average $5 mil, avg $3 mil, below avg $2 mil, fair $1 mil, and poor at $.5 mil.

I figured that this way, the stars of the league in their 6th and 7th years (or thereabouts) would get arbitration awards around $9 million.

Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to be working out at all. The highest arbitration salary I've seen in the league for the 10 years I've been doing this is $7.6 million. This year, the highest VORP player (and also MVP) was awarded $5.4 million. The best pitcher in the league with a VORP of 93 (!) was only awarded $3.9 million.

To make it even stranger, then the highest paid player in the league signed a $15 million/year contract. So he went from making $5.1 million for arbitration, then in his 11th year of service, signed a 3 year $45 million deal.

This just seems really, really off based on the salary structure I imposed in the league setup. Does arbitration not get based on the league setup? Where are those arbitration #'s coming from?

So if I wanted to double the arbitration salaries, I'd end up letting FA salaries be absurdly high.

I just wanted to get a few other thoughts about this before I log it as an official bug.