Resigning

[goorioles]

In my fictional league, every player I have seen is resigning with their team in the offseason for only one year contracts. However, in free agency, players are getting multi-year deals. How do I go about changing this so players sign longer contracts during the resigning period?

[Kelric]

Merely signing their arbitration deals. Most guys sign one year contracts in real life, too, though of course we're now seeing a surge of long term deals for young guys. I don't believe there is any way to change what you are seeing in OOTP.

[goorioles]

Well, the arbitration date is two weeks past the beginning of resigning, so that isn't the issue. This is established veterans getting 1 year deals, at any amount of money (I have seen below average players signing small contracts, and superstars signing one year contracts over 10 million dollars).

[goorioles]

Bump, still running into this problem.

[njherdfan]

Originally Posted by goorioles

Well, the arbitration date is two weeks past the beginning of resigning, so that isn't the issue. This is established veterans getting 1 year deals, at any amount of money (I have seen below average players signing small contracts, and superstars signing one year contracts over 10 million dollars).

If I'm understanding correctly, the people signing the 1 year deals aren't eligible to become free agents because they lack the required service time. Instead, they are agreeing on 1 year deals w/ their teams to avoid the acrimony of arbitration, and they settle for a sum somewhere between what they would have demanded and what the team would have offered. Think of it as arbitration without the arbitrator.

The players signing the multi-year deals are the ones who have hit complete free agency.