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Originally Posted by rujasu
Therefore, if no team is making a big enough offer, it's because no team finds the player to be worth that.
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Then you are more rational than real-world team owners. Your real-life counterparts have no problem throwing lots of money at any player or players they really want to get.
It's also not (in real life) just a question of what the player is worth in terms of salary versus statistical performance - it's also a question of how much revenue the team thinks will be generated for the club by that player. You may think based on statistical performance that a player is only worth $5 million per year, but if that player adds $10 million in revenue to your club due to increased ticket sales, more merchandise sold, etc., then paying him $8 million per year in salary is a net plus since the club is still earning an extra $2 million per season it wasn't earning before.
There's a whole branch of Sabermetrics that looks at the player's salary versus the revenue that player is estimated to have earned the club due to his contributions to the team. (Search for articles on the 'marginal revenue product' of baseball players; there's a section in the book
Baseball and Billions that covers the topic, for example.)
I have no idea if OOTP actually examines that aspect when it comes to the salaries of players. I would assume not, but maybe it does.