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Supply and demand certainly makes sense to a certain point. Both these pitchers were early to mid 30`s both top talents.
They were they only 5 star starters. there was a couple 4 star arms, but they were veterans 38 years old, they still signed for between 60-80k. Its over the 55k financial league setting for a super star, but least it’s reasonable. There were 3 or 4 veteran 3 star pitchers available as well, none went for a huge contract other than Sanchez who i was in a bidding war for but gave up. He signed at 57k per year.
The two comments explaining there is too much unspent money in the league has me very intrigued. I would feel a little disappointed if the OOTP historical settings don't function properly. But i would like to know how to curve the financials so that the biggest markets aren`t spending three times more on a free agent than what his value should be.
I also find it a strange coincidence that the 3 pitchers I made a move for, all got into bidding wars and saw huge contracts awarded. If you look at the list Sanchez Thompson and Jacksons contracts are wildly inflated to everyone else.
For example Robles is a 5 star talent 38 year old RF'er. I never made an offer, not sure what that bidding war was like, but his signed 68k. A perfectly realistic contract considering the set up and era I’m playing in.
New York, Chicago and Los Angeles have budgets around 1.8 million, while Vancouver, Nashville and Detroit have budgets around 880k.
Is the budget disparity destroying the realism of the league? The top budget teams inflating player contracts?
In 1946 the original budgets were Detroit @ 440k at the bottom and New York @ 900k at the top.
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