Combining money available for extensions and FA's

[Germaniac]

It's very annoying, especially in online leagues, that the owner splits the money for extensions and FA's

For example, your owner gives you 15 mill. for extensions and 25 mill. for FA's it should be listed as 40 mill. for extensions and FA's.

I don't think a real-life owner will tell his GM how much money to spend on extensions and how much on FA's - he'll give him X dollars to spend.

It's just extremely frustrating when you want to go after a certain FA (especially when you have another pending offer out there) and you can't offer a competitive deal even though you have a ton of money left for extensions that you don't need.

We all have to operate within a certain budget, so it should be solely my decision if I want to spend the money on extending contracts of my players or use it for signing that big FA.

[kq76]

Those amounts are based on formulas based on what you can afford and when you can afford them. It's not like the owner has 30M in his bank account and he arbitrarily says 20M can go to this and 10M to that.

You might want to search the boards for the formulas. I myself have posted the formulas several times although maybe not in the last couple years so they may be outdated, but even the old ones should give you an idea of how it all works.