Player signs 9/12/06 becomes FA 11/12/06

[CaLíKrAzY]

Player signed a 1 year deal after becoming a FA, then wasn't immune to Free agency on 11/22, thus becoming a FA once again.

[White Sox]

That kind of makes sense figuring the FA period hadn't started, so any contracts signed for one year would still be applicable to the FA year you are in. As soon as the new FA season starts, that contract expires.

[Erik W.]

Originally Posted by Waninski

That kind of makes sense figuring the FA period hadn't started, so any contracts signed for one year would still be applicable to the FA year you are in. As soon as the new FA season starts, that contract expires.

Yup.

I just hope that contract was prorated, or you spent a whole lot of money for not that much return.

[bulldog55]

Why did he become a free agent on 9/11? Is that when your season ends? If the AI signed a player between the end of the season and the start of free agency, they shouldn't have to foot any of that bill, since team's pay a prorated amount if they sign a player midseason (see Roger Clemens this year). If they signed him after the season was over, they wouldn't have played any games and therefore shouldn't have owed him any money. There's really no way to check whether he actually got paid but just for kicks I tested out signing a player after games ended and I wasn't charged any additional money. This should be able to be fixed but in the meantime you can just write it off as a cosmetic bug (though it does suck to have that team in his history when he never played a game for them).

[andymac]

Originally Posted by bulldog55

Why did he become a free agent on 9/11? Is that when your season ends? If the AI signed a player between the end of the season and the start of free agency, they shouldn't have to foot any of that bill, since team's pay a prorated amount if they sign a player midseason (see Roger Clemens this year). If they signed him after the season was over, they wouldn't have played any games and therefore shouldn't have owed him any money. There's really no way to check whether he actually got paid but just for kicks I tested out signing a player after games ended and I wasn't charged any additional money. This should be able to be fixed but in the meantime you can just write it off as a cosmetic bug (though it does suck to have that team in his history when he never played a game for them).

Well, I'm not even sure it is a bug. Were Yucatan & Pittsburgh in the same league or different leagues. If they were in two different leagues I would think that this entire case would be peferectly fine. If they are in the same league, you are right, he should never have become a free agent oon the 1st date.

[bulldog55]

Originally Posted by andymac

Well, I'm not even sure it is a bug. Were Yucatan & Pittsburgh in the same league or different leagues.

That's actually a very good point. I was wondering why there was a team called the Pittsburgh Pirates in a league with Yucatan, but I wrote it off as a fictional North American league. Yucatan is a default Mexican League team and their season is only 110 games long, so becoming a free agent at the start of Sept and then getting picked up by an MLB team for the stretch is perfectly reasonable. Good eye.

[thomamon]

It is prorated :-)

[CaLíKrAzY]

I guess they rented him for 2 months at almost 11mil jesus, but eventually he was returned to the Mexican Leagues after I failed to pick him up off FA .. Anyway, I'm washed up from playing all night dunno what I'm thinkin

[jbsnadb]

Originally Posted by CaLíKrAzY

I guess they rented him for 2 months at almost 11mil jesus, but eventually he was returned to the Mexican Leagues after I failed to pick him up off FA .. Anyway, I'm washed up from playing all night dunno what I'm thinkin

The same thing as the rest of us!

I have time for ONE MORE GAME...

[bulldog55]

Originally Posted by CaLíKrAzY

I guess they rented him for 2 months at almost 11mil jesus

Yes, they signed him to an $11M contract, but if you're using a normal MLB setup, they'd only have him for about the final month of the season, possibly less (depending on when your season actually ends). The way MLB contracts work is that the amount is prorated for the number of games they're actually with the team. Take Roger Clemens signing with the Astros this season. His contract is actually over $20M but since he's signing about 1/3 of the way into the season, he's only going to end up taking home $12M and change. An $11M contract over one month is actually going to be worth less than $2M. In the Front Office page, there's an entry for "Player Expenses So Far" and that updates every game by paying every player one game's worth of their salary. Compare that to the actual Payroll figure and they will almost always be different, sometimes greatly so (as would likely be the case here, with a discrepancy of some $9M).

[blackrussian]

see my comments here: http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...d.php?t=121593

same thing happened in my setup, except i had a guy sign 3 contracts within a year.

[bulldog55]

Originally Posted by blackrussian

see my comments here: http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...d.php?t=121593

same thing happened in my setup, except i had a guy sign 3 contracts within a year.

Yes, but the third contract was a normal offseason free agency contract, which the OP's player inevitably would have signed after 11-22. The progression is going Mexican League free agent->Major League stretch rental->Major League free agent.

Perhaps the real thing that needs to be tweaked here is eligibility. The game could probably benefit from a posting system a la Japan in this regard so players can't be signed for the last month of the season as seems to be the case.