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I think some tweaking is in order.
For example, in my game, Andrew Miller sat and rotted through the offseason. Before ST he wanted a 4-year deal worth $40m. Nobody would give him the time of day.
As soon as ST started, he dropped all the way down to a 1-year deal for $7.5m. Suddenly a bunch of teams got into a bidding war for over a month that pushed up near $30m for a single year. I can't imagine any real team paying that.
Perhaps a bit more gradual adjustment in player demands would help. As would some limits on the bidding war stuff. There was one good (not great) RP who was in a bidding war that went weeks into the regular season, a few teams nickel-and-diming each other. I am not sure an RP would really want to sit on the shelf for over 2 months waiting for that to play out (he didn't end up getting a lot extra for his trouble).
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