[Isryion]

Not much to add here except to say to the OP that I took a look at league finances. It's NOT just a cash on hand issue, it's also a factor of how much money teams have available within their projected payroll.

There are several teams that are way under budget (tens of thousands of dollars), and I think this is what's causing a larger issue. In fact, only a handful of teams are posting a balance of less than $10M. Guessing from the report expenses, it looks like almost everything goes to payroll, so any money not being spent in the budget is the player payroll. In your case, that's a heck of a lot of money (I'd guess between around 200 million+ or more -- Heck, two teams have over $130 just between the two of them).

This means the financial situation in your league is not comparable to the MLB, where teams leave far less space in their payroll, and certainly not to the extremes we see in your league. GMs have far more money available than what they are spending on players, so it doesn't surprise me at all that you have a few FA who are asking for ridiculous amounts.

It does seem like a decent feature to insert would be to allow a GM to insert a "projected payroll" to allow for leagues like this and so that FA properly calculate it out, but as the game stands now, this is an issue where FA expect a more realistic use of teams' budgets but aren't seeing what teams actually want to spend. On the other hand, this may be an issue of just far too much money in your league and the engine doing what it can to bring player demands in line with it.