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Originally Posted by MrGreenGenes
Not sure how you keep missing the point, but this has very little to do with cash on hand, or even the initial demands that the players have. The real problem is how OOTP processes the offers that players receive, and how different people have different counters from players based on where they are in the bidding process and how far into FA it is. Everyone should be pretty much on the same page when it comes to free agents, but currently, that isn't the case.
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I'd argue that the point you're missing is that the game isn't designed for players to react to the exact same amount from different teams in the same way. I can understand that there are leagues that want this as it more properly simulates real life while others would want something similar to what was posted above with essentially players taking the top offer every time.
I did address both issues, though, and as The Wolf mentioned, this seemed to be a secondary point that didn't appear until 3-4 pages into this thread. Like I said, though, I did examine the issue and gave a game mechanic reason Neef didn't come back to ask for the previous offer. However, that said, I still think it's possible he actually preferred to sign with the other team, so I don't see any major issues with the signing described.
The system isn't currently designed for players to treat offers/bidding from GMs exactly the same exactly the same. There are real other variables in the offers and the difference between what that player was looking for and his counter offer could be accounted for in other ways. It wasn't like he was offered $10M and $5M a season and took the lower. IMO, it's too small of a difference to get worked up about, knowing that other things are included in the player's consideration. The fact is he may have had little interest in playing for the team he didn't sign with.
The point is that while I think it was good to include a specific example and maybe things aren't working as they are supposed to, you'll need a lot more evidence that shows something more drastic than this one.