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Originally Posted by Bluenoser
FA demands are based on money available in the league which comes from revenues. It is not based on what the GM's willing to pay. That's why not everyone bids on Albert Pujols, because they can't afford his asking price. Plenty of examples where some teams are willing to pay that and others aren't. What teams are willing to pay and what FA's are going to ask for are two entirely different things. Albert Pujols didn't lower his demands just because only 4 or 5 teams could afford or were willing to pay it. He knew what was available for a player of his talents and he asked for it.
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I don't necessarily disagree with what you've said above because I think we're talking about "willing" using a different definition.
I might be
able to pay $1 million for a lawnmower.
I might be
willing to pay $300 for a lawnmower (but no more)
I'd
like to pay $200 for a lawnmower.
Someone who wants to sell me a lawnmower should aim to get $300 from me. I'll try to talk him down to $200.
It would be a foolish lawnmower salesman who starts off asking $1 million for a lawnmower
simply because I can afford it (as $1 million is far above what a lawnmower is worth to me). This is particularly true if I can get a serviceable lawnmower from someone else for $250 and I already have a bunch of lawnmowers I'm paying $100 for.
I'm not sure about OOTP's FA model but sometimes it seems, in essence, to start off by asking for $1 million simply because that is the money someone has. That seems to be a mistake as that isn't the way pricing/negotiation works in the real world; it isn't the way supply/demand works at all.