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Originally Posted by CharlesC

I have run leagues with free agency and arbitration in the past, and found the salaries to be a bit high but fairly reasonable. Now I am running a historical league that began in 1960, so I do not have free agency and therefore cannot have arbitration. The trouble is, the salaries for second through sixth-year players are absolutely astronomical, MUCH higher than even if they were arbitrated, MUCH higher than the revenues can support. Is there any way to actual negotiate a salary in the pre-free agency era? Or is there any way to lower the salaries to a level more suitable for the revenue streams of that era? As a note, my revenues are set to the 1960 level, but every team is in the red due to the salaries. This seems to be because well over half the players are rated as "above average" by the AI and several mediocre players are given star-level salaries. One would think that in the pre-free agency era, when the owners had far more negotiating power than they do presently, they would use that power to keep slaries lower, rather then making them higher than they are with free agency.

Thank you for any suggestions.

This has been a problem for a number of versions.