[Long_Long_Name]

My online league has a huge number of very, very rich teams. A lot of them have stockpiled amounts of cash way over 50 million dollars. Now, there is a problem with this: it's absolutely impossible to sign anyone in the game, either as free agents or to extensions. The players completely disregard the salary scale, which is really annoying, because it's nearly impossible to sign contract extensions. The salary scale is normal, varying from 400k for a poor player to 2mil for an average player to 16mil for a superstar. However, star players are asking for 26millions, and a mediocre middle reliever wants 13mil a year as a contract extension.

Now, other than taking cash away from my owners, is there any way to work around that and get players to make reasonable demands? Is there any way that players can actually follow the salary scale (that's what it's there for anyway, isn't it?) rather than adjust their salary demands on the cash floating around? (I assume that's the problem - we have tons of it, and some have reported on this board that it could be the issue). This is a pretty major hurdle for our league, as we had to scratch the in-game FA system in favour of a separate bidding war format, and now it looks like extensions will be nearly impossible to sign, since no one is ready to spend that much on players.