Split contracts

[runyan99]

As I understand it in the real world, players on the 40-man roster who are not eligible for arbitration have split contracts. They make ML minumum when they are in the majors, and a minor league salary when they are in the minors.

This isn't currently how OOTP seems to work. In OOTP, everybody on the 40 man roster is making ML minumum, even if they play in Low A.

Please fix or something.

[TGH-Adfabre]

Everybody on the 40 man should not be making ML minimum in OOTP.

How far into your league are you?
Is it your team or all of the teams in your league?

I ran into this in an online league and it seemed to be connected to letting the AI make all of my demotions at the end of Spring Training.

[runyan99]

It is an online league and it happens every year for the last 5 seasons. On opening day, everybody on the 40 man appears on the salary screen at 414k and counts towards total payroll.

[TGH-Adfabre]

We had that problem too. I think what needs to happen is this.

The last game of ST needs to be simmed but the game cannot be advanced to Opening Day or (I think, not have evidence for) the last day of ST.

The commish needs to put up a file where the GMs just move people off the 40 man.

Then he uploads and sims through Opening Day. I am convinced that if it is not done before the last day of ST the game hiccups and reads that the players are on the ML roster but their roster contraction to 25 men has not happened yet.

I am in one league that this was a problem and one where we never saw this problem. Both were imported from OOTP 13.

Good luck,
Tom

[snepp]

Players that have a league minimum contract, and are in the minor leagues, make roughly 15% of the minimum in OOTP (16.5% if my maths were correct in that other thread).

This isn't displayed within the game, but can be observed by looking at the actual player expenses that are paid from one game to the next.


Here's a thread from v12 where I gave a specific example with some numbers.

[Le Grande Orange]

Originally Posted by snepp

Players that have a league minimum contract, and are in the minor leagues, make roughly 15% of the minimum in OOTP (16.5% if my maths were correct in that other thread).

This isn't displayed within the game, but can be observed by looking at the actual player expenses that are paid from one game to the next.

That is my understanding as well.

For what it's worth, in real life there are two minimum salary rates for players on the 40-man roster but who are playing with a minor league club. The first is for players signing their first ML contract and who have no ML experience: $39,900 per year for 2013 (8.1% of the major league minimum salary). The second is for players signing their second contract or who have at least one day of major league service: $79,900 for 2013 (16.3% of the major league minimum, or about one-sixth in fractional terms).

The minimum salary for a player with at least one day of major league service but playing in the minors has, as a percentage of the major league minimum salary, dropped quite a bit over the years. In the late 1980s it was one-third the ML minimum salary; for most of the 1990s it was one-quarter; in the early 2000s it was one-fifth; since 2003 it has been one-sixth. (The minimum for a player with no ML service started in 2007 and is set to be about half of whatever the minimum is for a player with at least one day of ML service.)