[Corsairs]

I'm noticing an issue in our league that has me considering a new house rule. Whenever the season start there's a small number of top players still remaining in the draft pool due to their excessive salary demands. Once the season begins they start asking for 1-year contracts and the amount they demand slowly lessens as we progress further into the season. So far, so good; that's exactly as it should be.

The problem I'm finding is that around July or so, these remaining free agents are getting so "desperate" that teams are able to sign them for ridiculously low multi-year contracts. As an example, we just had an elite catcher who had been asking for around $14M per season before the season started. By mid-July he was down to asking for a 1-year, $8M contract. A team was able to sign him to a 4-year, $8M contract... just $2M a year for one of the best-rated catchers in the league!

My first question is: has anyone else experienced this? If so, what do you do to combat it? I'd love to discover it's due to a mistake in the way I've configured the league settings. Barring that, I'm considering instituting a "house rule" that no free agent may be signed to a multi-year deal following the June Amateur Draft.