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Here's the rules for our league:

MVP/Cy Young awards are capped at 10% of the average yearly salary offered to the player. This means if you offer a $1 million contract, you can offer a max of 100k in MVP incentives. A $25 million average contract can include up to $2.5 million in MVP/Cy Young incentives. This is to stop teams from offering significant portions of a player's salary as MVP awards they are very unlikely to recieve, and to keep teams with this knowledge from gaming the system.

IP/PA awards are also capped. You cannot offer incentives for more than 650 PA or 200 IP. These are reasonable numbers that a normally healthy player can reach. The point of these incentives is to tie salary to time spent playing. If you break either of these rules to get the player to sign with you:

1) MVP/CY bonus: The player will be released. The player will not negotiate with you anymore because you released him. You will also be forced to deal with his salary that has now gone to player expenses. We're serious about this. These bonuses are out of hand.

2) PA/IP bonus: The amount of the bonus will be added to every year of the contract just signed. Offer $1.5m in incentives for reaching 700 PA, and the player gets that much added on, guaranteed, every year. And if by some miracle he does make it to 700 PA, he gets the bonus again.