Question about signing players to extensions...

[Lintyfresh85]

I'm not really interested in resigning anyone yet... but when I look at people's contracts and hit the "meet demand" button, I am always told that the Owner does not approve the money be given to the player to sign a new deal... Yet when I look at the screen, it tells me I still have 18 million free to spend on contracts... what gives? Also, is there a point in the offseason where I will get a chance to resign these guys before the other teams do... and my owner will allow me to do it?

[Andrew]

I'm not really interested in resigning anyone yet... but when I look at people's contracts and hit the "meet demand" button, I am always told that the Owner does not approve the money be given to the player to sign a new deal... Yet when I look at the screen, it tells me I still have 18 million free to spend on contracts... what gives? Also, is there a point in the offseason where I will get a chance to resign these guys before the other teams do... and my owner will allow me to do it?

Not sure about this, but it's happening to other teams as well. I don't have the game in front of me but with the other team this happened to, my guess was that his salaries for next year + players who will receive arbitration was greater than his projected budget.

It was an issue that was supposed to have been fixed in the last patch, but seems to have gotten worse. Not quite sure what to do about it.

[Riverman]

Not sure about this, but it's happening to other teams as well. I don't have the game in front of me but with the other team this happened to, my guess was that his salaries for next year + players who will receive arbitration was greater than his projected budget.

It was an issue that was supposed to have been fixed in the last patch, but seems to have gotten worse. Not quite sure what to do about it.

I don't think this problem is related to expected arbitration awards since teams have the option of declining to offer arbitration to any player. I'm pretty sure it is related to offers made that have been rejected but for some reason the system treats the offer as though it were accepted.

It is discouraging that the designers of this game either can't or won't fix this problem as it has been around since the first version of OOTP 2006.

[Lintyfresh85]

I don't think this problem is related to expected arbitration awards since teams have the option of declining to offer arbitration to any player. I'm pretty sure it is related to offers made that have been rejected but for some reason the system treats the offer as though it were accepted.

It is discouraging that the designers of this game either can't or won't fix this problem as it has been around since the first version of OOTP 2006.

That would make sense... in the off-season I made a lot of offers that put me right at the edge of my budget... but seeing as they didn't sign I ended up with 18 mil. left over. That must be the cause of the problem then.

[Riverman]

That would make sense... in the off-season I made a lot of offers that put me right at the edge of my budget... but seeing as they didn't sign I ended up with 18 mil. left over. That must be the cause of the problem then.

I know Squint, the old Los Alamos owner, had this problem last year and that it was eventually solved but I don't know if the game just eventually fixed itself on its own or if Andrew did something to solve it, but I know he eventually signed the player involved.

[Whale]

I've made zero offers to anyone on my team, have 15m+ budgeted for next year, and still have no money to sign anyone. So even if that is an issue, it's not the whole story. I think it has to do with arbitration eligible players like Stu said

[Riverman]

I've made zero offers to anyone on my team, have 15m+ budgeted for next year, and still have no money to sign anyone. So even if that is an issue, it's not the whole story. I think it has to do with arbitration eligible players like Stu said

Did you make any offers to free agents?

[Andrew]

I think our only option here is for me to input the offers manually.

[Guest]

This happened to me in free agency. I had 20+ million for player signings (said the game), but was only able to offer up to roughly 4 million a year for the guy I was trying to get.

[Jim]

I had something similar to this happen in another league I was in. I chalked it up to a couple things:

- The owner didn't want me to sign that player?
- Owner didn't want me to use almost my entire budget for 1 or 2 guys?