Game Signing Coaches for You?

[bulldog55]

This has happened to me two years in a row now. Last season my team inexplicably hired a hitting coach at over $1M per season. I went with him since he was good (even though I normally wouldn't have offered that deal) but with my team in financial straits I decided to release my hitting coach, pitching coach and scout, while my AAA manager's contract expired.

I went into the coaches screen and the game has made offers for all four positions without my consent. The things is, we're in debt so we shouldn't be allowed to offer anything above the minimum.

This has happened two seasons in a row so I have to believe there is some bug going on. Has anyone else experienced this?

EDIT: Here's the transactions screen:

New York (A) Transactions
Tuesday, 1/26/2006
Sunday 1/24/2006 :

Coach/Scout signed: Pitching Coach Ben Stroup, $200,000 per year, for 2 years.
Coach/Scout signed: Hitting Coach John Humbles, $200,000 per year, for 2 years.
Coach/Scout signed: Minors Manager Jerrel Felty, $200,000 per year, for 5 years.


Monday 1/25/2006 :

Coach/Scout signed: Minors Manager Chris Sorenson, $200,000 per year, for 2 years.
Coach/Scout signed: Scout Paul Shelly, $200,000 per year, for 3 years.
Coach/Scout signed: Minors Manager Jerrel Felty, $200,000 per year, for 5 years.

This is completely messed up. On day one it said I hired Felty as my AAA manager (though I offered him 3 years, not 5) and yet he hadn't signed. So the next day I signed Sorenson (to whom I never made an offer, but he was probably the guy the computer tried to offer a contract to) and then on the same day signed the same manager I allegedly signed the day before, to the same overly-long contract.

I check in my coaches screen, though, and it has him at the contract I offered.

Somehow with a payroll of $17M last season I managed to get charged $29M in player expenses. I have a feeling that extra money went to ghost coaches I signed.


EDIT EDIT: And looking at the almanac I'm right on target. And it's much, much worse than it was this season:

Sunday 1/24/2005 :

Coach/Scout signed: Hitting Coach Fred Safwat, $200,000 per year, for 3 years.
Coach/Scout signed: Scout John Hooglandt, $200,000 per year, for 3 years.
Coach/Scout signed: Minors Manager Jeff Owens, $200,000 per year, for 3 years.
Coach/Scout signed: Hitting Coach Billy Hemker, $1,023,100 per year, for 5 years.
Coach/Scout signed: Minors Manager Frank Ward, $200,000 per year, for 2 years.
Coach/Scout signed: Minors Manager Richard Crain, $1,001,900 per year, for 3 years.
Coach/Scout signed: Pitching Coach Will Burns, $937,200 per year, for 2 years.
Coach/Scout signed: Minors Manager Zack Lundmark, $432,000 per year, for 2 years.
Coach/Scout signed: Scout Donovan Mayotte, $1,036,100 per year, for 2 years.
Coach/Scout signed: Hitting Coach John Humbles, $200,000 per year, for 2 years.
Coach/Scout signed: Minors Manager Jerrel Felty, $200,000 per year, for 5 years.


Monday 1/25/2005 :

Coach/Scout signed: Minors Manager Richard Crain, $1,001,900 per year, for 3 years.
Coach/Scout signed: Pitching Coach Will Burns, $937,200 per year, for 2 years.
Coach/Scout signed: Scout Donovan Mayotte, $1,036,100 per year, for 2 years.
Coach/Scout signed: Hitting Coach John Humbles, $200,000 per year, for 2 years.
Coach/Scout signed: Minors Manager Jerrel Felty, $200,000 per year, for 5 years.


Tuesday 1/26/2005 :

Coach/Scout signed: Minors Manager Richard Crain, $1,001,900 per year, for 3 years.
Coach/Scout signed: Pitching Coach Will Burns, $937,200 per year, for 2 years.
Coach/Scout signed: Scout Donovan Mayotte, $1,036,100 per year, for 2 years.
Coach/Scout signed: Hitting Coach John Humbles, $200,000 per year, for 2 years.
Coach/Scout signed: Minors Manager Jerrel Felty, $200,000 per year, for 5 years.


Wednesday 1/27/2005 :

Coach/Scout signed: Minors Manager Richard Crain, $1,001,900 per year, for 3 years.
Coach/Scout signed: Pitching Coach Will Burns, $937,200 per year, for 2 years.
Coach/Scout signed: Scout Donovan Mayotte, $1,036,100 per year, for 2 years.
Coach/Scout signed: Hitting Coach John Humbles, $200,000 per year, for 2 years.
Coach/Scout signed: Minors Manager Jerrel Felty, $200,000 per year, for 5 years.


Thursday 1/28/2005 :

Coach/Scout signed: Minors Manager Richard Crain, $1,001,900 per year, for 3 years.
Coach/Scout signed: Pitching Coach Will Burns, $937,200 per year, for 2 years.
Coach/Scout signed: Scout Donovan Mayotte, $1,036,100 per year, for 2 years.
Coach/Scout signed: Hitting Coach John Humbles, $200,000 per year, for 2 years.
Coach/Scout signed: Minors Manager Jerrel Felty, $200,000 per year, for 5 years.

I'm using CBLv2.1. I released all of my major league players and coaches at the start of free agency last year (see this thread). I don't see why that would make this happen though.

[bulldog55]

Here's the final transactions report from this year. Same guy signed every day:

New York (A) Transactions
Friday, 1/29/2006
Sunday 1/24/2006 :

Coach/Scout signed: Pitching Coach Ben Stroup, $200,000 per year, for 2 years.
Coach/Scout signed: Hitting Coach John Humbles, $200,000 per year, for 2 years.
Coach/Scout signed: Minors Manager Jerrel Felty, $200,000 per year, for 5 years.


Monday 1/25/2006 :

Coach/Scout signed: Minors Manager Chris Sorenson, $200,000 per year, for 2 years.
Coach/Scout signed: Scout Paul Shelly, $200,000 per year, for 3 years.
Coach/Scout signed: Minors Manager Jerrel Felty, $200,000 per year, for 5 years.


Tuesday 1/26/2006 :

Coach/Scout signed: Minors Manager Jerrel Felty, $200,000 per year, for 5 years.


Wednesday 1/27/2006 :

Coach/Scout signed: Minors Manager Jerrel Felty, $200,000 per year, for 5 years.


Thursday 1/28/2006 :

Coach/Scout signed: Minors Manager Jerrel Felty, $200,000 per year, for 5 years.