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Originally Posted by bababui
No one forces you to offer a lowball contract, do they? Its an issue but is it really something to get so upset about?
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I didn't notice this because of something I had done. I noticed this because of receiving a news email saying Detroit had given Jeremy Bonderman a 4 year extension worth 7.1 million...I said hmm...that seems kind of low for a guy who is a pretty decent pitcher, so I looked and he is in the last year of a 4 year $38 million contract, making $12.4 million...
Personally I wouldn't do this because it is completely unrealistic, regardless of if it benefits me or not. At the very least, there should be some kind of limit to how much lower you could even offer a player an extension at, based on the final year of their current contract.
So, for instance, if Bonderman is making $12.4 million this year, you cannot offer an extension that is below 15% of that value, or $10.54 million. Secondly, the player should probably outright reject any extension offer that is below what he is making this current year until at least August, when his season's numbers are not going to improve by much. These 2 simple things will prevent this situation from occurring.
If the team doesn't want to give the player a raise from the previous year, the player is almost 100% going to go to free agency and at least test the market(what agent would advise his player to take a crap extension, without at least seeing what else is out there?). While this makes it more likely he will not resign with his current team, if they make him a fair offer in free agency, he could resign with them. This way, he at least will allow 29 other teams to bid on his services, rather than taking a crap offer from 1 team who is basically bidding against itself at that point of the season...
Any way you look at it, it is ridiculous for this to be happening at this point in OOTP's development...just my 2 cents...yes it was pretty strongly said, but the standard this game should be held to is pretty high...it does a lot of things tremendously well. Its simple things like this that drive player's nuts because it is so far from reality that it is just silly. What makes it worse are the fixes I suggested would pretty much completely eliminate this issue, and would only require a few simple checks.
Check 1: Is ExtensionOffer >= (CurrentContract * .85)
If yes, check date before allowing extension offer(if extension below current contract---if it is a raise, no need to check date).
If no, team cannot offer this extension to player
Check 2: Is Month >= August(or whatever month/date, etc is set)
If yes, team can offer below current contract extension
If no, team cannot offer any extension below current contract.
Simple fix, simple to code...