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Originally Posted by SFGiantsFan
That's what you can usually expect to happen though. When you "insult" a player with a bad contract offer, they will want to make you pay for it by asking for more money. I feel this works decently well, because it takes more work to save as much money as possible on contracts because you don't want to risk making them mad and ask for more than the initial demand.
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How is giving them more than they are making currently, AND more than the sim indicates they would receive on their next arbitration, AND exactly what they are asking for on a 1-year deal, AND an annual raise on top of that "an insult"?
All I'm suggesting is some measure of transparency. These players are going to have agents. One would assume that the agents would have some inclination as to what the player would want. Therefore it would not be far more realistic for a GM to be able to go to an agent and say "Hey, what do you think it takes to lock up your guy for 5 years?" An agent, being the bottom-feeding scum of the earth, will of course inflate that amount by ??%... But at least there's some concept of what you're dealing with, and then if you want to reduce the offer from there, of course you're taking your chances. I just can't fathom how offering a guy what he wants, but for a longer term, can suddenly justify a massive inflation in his asking price (with NO wiggle room on the term of the contract).