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Originally Posted by Jontler
These things almost certainly are not problems in offline leagues. Buane is asking for some minor changes or measures of control. Something special, specific to online leagues, to allow the commissioner some modicum of control over the situation in order to prevent things from spinning completely out of control.
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Yes let's change the whole way FA works just to suit the online players.
The quick signing is realistic so learn to deal with it. I'm sure players do that all the time so they should in OOTP to. If i was a team and i knew the player would just back to all the other teams bidding and tell them how much and how long i was offering i kinda would put a stop to it. I'm sure the agents will tell a team there are other offers so you will have to up yours but then they will also quick sign if the deal comes along to. Just because the league you are in sims days at a time shouldn't mean that a feature is changed just to suit you. It could be looked at to see if it needs to be toned down but leave it in, it's realistic and that should be all that matters for the most part.
The injury prone SP should lower their demands after awhile, well any player who sits in FA should lower their demands after awhile or at least well before the retire. Though if they are retireing then he can't be very young so i would expect that 37 year old to be more stubborn then a 25 year old. So i don't know what the real problem is.
Your two scenarios:
Player has priced himself completely out of the market, signs with nobody, demands do not lower enough and he spends the entire season as a free agent.
Player has priced himself completely out of the market initially, later his demands lower and he is signed at the end of Free Agency for LESS money than he would have received if he would have had more reasonable demands at the beginning.
That's how it works, the first one can happen though it all depends on how often, so that does and should happen. And the second part is how it works. He demands lower later because he couldn't get the first offer then signs for less money because if sometimes a team will sign a player for less later because they can. So what is the problem when this happens?
Option A What you see as unreasonable you will find many who find it reasonable, as you can tell just from this thread.
Option B Do we know that there is a "minimum" that a contract offer must hit before a free agent will consider the contract offer?
Ignoreing the option only for Online, that is a pretty good suggestion and should be something to look into.
Option C can be done now, have the teams make the offers to the commish then edit the player and contract onto the team, you obviously have an amount in mind the player is worth so it is doable.
Option D Again why just online? how about we improve the game for everyone and not just the Online?
I really wish this game gets separated in 3 games one day, so the online players can have their game work for them, the historical players can replay history to their delight and i don't have to listen and suffer though the game being changed because it didn't suit one persons style of play.