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Originally Posted by joefromchicago
Indeed, a bigger problem is that OOTP automatically bases pay on a player's performance in the previous year. Play well and you get a pay raise, play poorly and you get a pay cut. As Willie Mays could attest, however, that wasn't always true in real life.
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Indeed. Clubs generally found it better to release an unproductive player rather than cut his salary. About the only time where there was mass cutting of salaries was, unsurprisingly, was during the Depression (there was also a cut in the active roster size).
On average, a player in his fourth year made double what he did in his debut year; by his seventh or eighth year the salary had doubled again.