Well, it's not a majority of players who are accepting these contracts, so it's a little harder to pinpoint exactly why or how this is happening. Once again, this may be a conversion issue. We've got all our contract extension offers on hold till mid-season in order to find out.
Try this thread:
http://www.whbl.org/main/showthread.php?t=16395
edit: More specifically, I do have one more example. It's harder without historical statistics to make sense of, but it's a potential data point, nonetheless.
http://www.whbl.org/reports/news/htm...ayer_3299.html
Also happened in this league, which is how it came to my attention, through a mutual GM.
http://wbh.allsimbaseball3.com/
Also possible in Shane's league, though I can't remember if that's the case.