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Originally Posted by No Pepper
Nukester, I had setup a league with free agency and arbitration settings like yours several months ago having the same intentions but the league never got off the ground for other reasons. Do players who have less than 12 years service time and whose contracts expire become eligible for arbitration multiple times?
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Yes if a player has less than 12 years service time they are eligible for arbitration every year until they get to the 12 year mark. So if I draft a player when he is 20 years old, I have that guy locked in until hes at least 32 years old (or maybe 33 years) unless I cut him or trade him, depending on when I bring him up to the majors to start the clock, but he is arbitration eligible after his 1st year in the majors and every season after that. I still have to weight every year whether to let guys to arbitration or whether to sign them to an extension which might/might not be less than what they will get in arbitration.
If you have a long FA setting like 12 years, but set arbitration to something like 3 years, the player will make the same amount of money (usually league minimum I think) for the first few years he is in the majors. Thats why I set it to 1 year arbitration. It keeps player salaries somewhat near where they should be, so as to not render finacials completely useless, but allows teams to lock in players for a long time. Its been a great workaround for me