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Originally Posted by coljesep
But you are always allowed to offer arb whether you are in the negative or not. So in your gaming the system method, the team would just be more in the negative anyway. Further, nothing would stop them from moving forward with a traditional arb offer.
If you are counting the money against the balance before it's officially offered - then you shouldn't count it if the offer is taken off the table.
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You're allowed to always offer arb, but that doesn't mean you should be allowed to completely ignore finances.
Lets say you have arb estimates for a total of $75M, and are projected to be -$5M. The game acknowledges that you can offer arb to all your players even though it will lead to you being in the red. That doesn't mean you should be allowed to offer $70M in FA contracts then also offer arb to all your players and go to -$75M though.
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To your last point, the offer is only "taken off the table" once the arb hearing passes. But if you do want to take it off the table earlier in the off-season, just release the player. That will free up his arb money immediately for you.