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Originally Posted by Bagpipes5
A lot of people here are saying to just edit it. But if you are playing Challenge Mode, which I assume most people do, you cannot make this edit.
I am having the same problem. My budget gets cut by $10-20 million each year. Problem is computer teams are also going through the same thing in my saves and the race to cut payroll is very real. 10 years in and most teams are operating in the red, making them about impossible to trade with.
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I've had similar issues with trading coming to a deadlock due to teams all being in the red. Some of it is definitely from budgets being cut, but I also keep running into teams who have signed their star players (young studs like Holiday/Langford/De La Cruz) to INSANE extensions where they buy out the arb years for ~$30m per year, but then escalate to $65m well into the players 30s! In a recent save, by 2029, shopping around any player making over $15m only shows a dozen or more very good but way over played stars. Like the O's sign Rutschman and Holiday to huge contracts and then immediately try to offload them because they can't afford a team with two players taking up $100m+ in payroll. It definitely makes for some odd financial situations that feel off - I should not be able to sign fairly young 2 WAR free agents to minor league contracts because no one else has any money.
Are the inflated contracts maybe a product of whatever algorithm getting thrown off by Ohtani's contract not being deferred in game?