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Originally Posted by frank_olaf

I came across two issues last night playing OOTP 16 and just wanted to see if there are ways around it or if they are bugs:

1. During the regular season a couple of my players were injured longer term so I put them on the 60 day DL. When the season ended the players were still injured but their 60 days had run out, so I was forced to put them back on the active roster.

In general, this isn't an issue because it's the off season but the issue I had was that my 40 man roster was full and I was forced to make the players active before arbitration and free agency, which meant I had to release a few players to find space for the injured players.

Is this a bug or is there a way around it?

2. After the season my owner set the new budget and payroll and with all my salary commitments I was over the total payroll. I had around 10 players who were arbitration eligible so I tried to negotiate new one year contracts with them but my owner wouldn't allow any offer to be made as it exceeded the budget.

If it was a free agent signing or trade, then that would make sense, but since the players are arbitration eligible, they will get a new, higher, contract anyway, so shouldn't the owner be aware of this and allow me to offer these players new one year contracts?

Thanks

The arbitration issue has been reported. Disappointing that it hasn't been fixed yet. If funds are available for arbitration they must by definition be available for contract offers. Did you non-tender ie withdraw the potential arb proposal? Try that to see if it works.

A variation of this also occurs when you non-tender several players. The estimated arb awards should be removed from the equation which should allow you to offer an extension to another player.

To be fair of course, if you offer extensions etc., then you can't go back and offer arbitration.