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Originally Posted by Tullius
When you use financials you have to option to turn off Free Agency. What i have seen is that players still have contracts and this contract will be extended automatically. Does it mean a player will have the same salary the whole career when he is not released or can file for arbitration ? In the years of the reserve clause a player had at least the option to retire.
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This is an interesting question. To test it, I created a small league and ran it out 10 years with finances on and no free agency.
What I noticed was contracts are renewed as you said, but the money paid follows a realistic career arc, a bell-curve for established players who stick around long enough. That is, they don't make the same amount of money their whole careers.
I did not see any evidence of salary arbitration. Players retired as normal, however.
One thing I can add; although I saw salaries differentiated by talent level and career stage, the overall financial averages remained the same because I never varied the Financial Coefficient number from the default of 1.000.