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Originally Posted by SirMichaelJordan
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You offer incentives to make a deal more appealing, if you the player reach those goals then you have to pay him the extra cash.
Seem to have an impact on gameplay to me.
Seem to me that you are over paying people. Lol of course a guy will accept a team option deal if the money is good the ideal is to maybe offer him a player option and pay him less money...
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Nope, I'm a cheap bastard in real life and in OOTP. If I could get a guy to sign a cheaper a deal by signing him to a bonus he is unlikely to ever win (the MVP, since as I pointed out, l only one player in each league can win it.) I'd do it. But I have not had any results from that.
For those of you who have difficulty with contract signings:
1) If the player asks for a multi-year contract with escalating salaries, take 90% of the first year asking price (assuming that is within your budget and it usually is lower than what I think I"d offer) and offer that for the number of years you want to offer.
Chances are good he'll take it.
2) If that fails, offer what he's asking for the first season over the contract length. That almost always get him signed. Again, that first year is quite low.
3) Lastly, if he's still not signed and you absolutely have to have him, offer the average value of the contract he's asking for (yes, there could be long division involved!) with the last two years at the team's option. I've never had that turned down.
No need for incentives.
And as I pointed out, I can ALWAYS change a player option to a team option and get him signed, so offering a player option year and have it make a difference is simply not true. It is the total value of the contract over 'X' number of years that is key, IMO.