It’s an online league converted to OOTP 11…
We just had our first arbitration. Players went from making 3 or 4 million in arbitration to 10 or 10.5 million. Not just a few. 23 of the 205 cases earned eight figures. Before that, there where only 34 players in the entire 24 team league making eight figures.
The worst part is we got really bad information in the arbitration offers screen.
For example… a mediocre SS (good with the glove) went from making 2.18 million to a suggested offer of 3.812 million… which was met in the offer submissions. That player an his OPS+ of 93 and 86 in the last two seasons won an award of 10.5 million. He was one of 23 players who went from a 3-6 million dollars suggested offer in the arbitration screen to a 10 or 10.5 million dollar contract.
A relief pitcher with a 5.88 ERA, 1.73 WHIP and ERA+ 77 went from 1.59 million in the previous season to a 6 million dollar award. Another from 2 million to eight million despite a 4.46 ERA in 38 innings… and only a 4 million dollar default number in the arbitration screen.
Again, we went from 34 players making 10 million or more to 57… in one day.
First off, is it normal for the default numbers to be so inaccurate? Second how do we fix arbitration to get realistic levels to fix our current salary structure and 100 million dollar cap. Every decent player shouldn’t make 10 million in arby, should they?
here is a snapshot of the league settings:
http://monkeytorium.org/ttbl/files/ootp11-settings.JPG