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Re: Free Agency 2025

By Tecra031
11/17/2015 6:01 pm
Black Adder wrote:
My 50p view,

BONKERS!

From someone on another post on the forum stating not to offer him "silly trades" (oakbark) ,with NY in this league, he signs a 15 year vet with a SEVENTY % chance of retiring, a 5 year $22.3 million contract!!!

RIDICULOUS.

All teams have too much Cap space right now.


+1

Most of his contract offers for 40% or 50% retire probability players are 4-5 years for 20-30mil. NYK will be unusable for several seasons.

As for too much cap space...i am starting to feel a little bit of the squeeze. I still have 43m in cap space, so i am not in dire straits...but you can no longer resign rookies or even vets to incredibly low contracts. I have had to fork out some big bucks to re-sign my better players. I think the cap space issue will normalize in the not too distant future the way JDB changed the structure for re-signing players.

Re: Free Agency 2025

By Gustoon
11/18/2015 1:13 am
Tecra031 wrote:
Black Adder wrote:
My 50p view,

BONKERS!

From someone on another post on the forum stating not to offer him "silly trades" (oakbark) ,with NY in this league, he signs a 15 year vet with a SEVENTY % chance of retiring, a 5 year $22.3 million contract!!!

RIDICULOUS.

All teams have too much Cap space right now.


+1

Most of his contract offers for 40% or 50% retire probability players are 4-5 years for 20-30mil. NYK will be unusable for several seasons.

As for too much cap space...i am starting to feel a little bit of the squeeze. I still have 43m in cap space, so i am not in dire straits...but you can no longer resign rookies or even vets to incredibly low contracts. I have had to fork out some big bucks to re-sign my better players. I think the cap space issue will normalize in the not too distant future the way JDB changed the structure for re-signing players.


What concerns me about this is when that does happen , that owner can simply walk away leaving a right mess behind him, and as you say in this case the team will be in dire straits for seasons to come. (This isn't a personal attack on NY)

Re: Free Agency 2025

By Wolfpack
11/18/2015 8:18 am
Top Player salaries are still too low I think.

Re: Free Agency 2025

By martinwarnett
11/18/2015 9:44 am
Gustoon wrote:
Tecra031 wrote:
Black Adder wrote:
My 50p view,

BONKERS!

From someone on another post on the forum stating not to offer him "silly trades" (oakbark) ,with NY in this league, he signs a 15 year vet with a SEVENTY % chance of retiring, a 5 year $22.3 million contract!!!

RIDICULOUS.

All teams have too much Cap space right now.


+1

Most of his contract offers for 40% or 50% retire probability players are 4-5 years for 20-30mil. NYK will be unusable for several seasons.

As for too much cap space...i am starting to feel a little bit of the squeeze. I still have 43m in cap space, so i am not in dire straits...but you can no longer resign rookies or even vets to incredibly low contracts. I have had to fork out some big bucks to re-sign my better players. I think the cap space issue will normalize in the not too distant future the way JDB changed the structure for re-signing players.


What concerns me about this is when that does happen , that owner can simply walk away leaving a right mess behind him, and as you say in this case the team will be in dire straits for seasons to come. (This isn't a personal attack on NY)


Sounds to me like some semblance of auto-correction of contracts is needed - when team owner leaves some kind of automatic recognition of such bad contracts is required, then auto-adjust those contracts to more reasonable values. That way new owner doesn't inherit team in cap ****.

Re: Free Agency 2025

By Gustoon
11/19/2015 10:32 am
What the holy **** is going on here?



DT Javier Neely
Signed contract with St. Louis ($24,500,332, 2 yrs) (from KCY)
2025 2025 Free Agency 3
DT Javier Neely
Rejected contract offer from Chicago ($35,413,833, 6 yrs)
2025 2025 Free Agency 3
DT Javier Neely
Rejected contract offer from Baltimore ($1,495,587, 1 yrs)
2025 2025 Free Agency 3
DT Javier Neely
Rejected contract offer from New Jersey ($11,236,429, 2 yrs)
2025 2025 Free Agency 3
DT Javier Neely
Rejected contract offer from Kansas City ($1,495,589, 1 yrs)


That is just INSANE.
BTW 30% chance of retirement which means zip as we've all had players suddenly go on these %s. St.Louis isn't owned by anybody, its CPU. So if the CPU is making these kind of offers...?

Re: Free Agency 2025

By Morbid
11/19/2015 11:13 am
I had so much cap space and needs that I did send a lot of 1 year contracts at high prices. Some I signed and some I didnt. Still sitting with 45 mil in cap space

Re: Free Agency 2025

By Gustoon
11/19/2015 11:20 am
I have tons of cap space too, but looking at this FA just does nothing for me and can't see what the point of signing old Vets is. I know we were in the POs, but feel we did get lucky on occasions, as far as I'm concerned this is Zona's last year of rebuild, next season...!!!

Re: Free Agency 2025

By Morbid
11/19/2015 11:22 am
Gustoon wrote:
I have tons of cap space too, but looking at this FA just does nothing for me and can't see what the point of signing old Vets is. I know we were in the POs, but feel we did get lucky on occasions, as far as I'm concerned this is Zona's last year of rebuild, next season...!!!


I am rebuilding as well but I still try and compete. **** half these old players probably played for me last season..lol

Re: Free Agency 2025

By Gustoon
11/19/2015 11:24 am
Oh don't get me wrong I'll be going all out to win every game,. just not with old dudes (I'm an old dude)

Re: Free Agency 2025

By jdavidbakr - Site Admin
11/19/2015 8:30 pm
Look at the contract though, it's mostly base salary. Which means Chicago's offer must have been a really low bonus as well.


Year Salary Bonus
2025 $9,018,528 $3,006,175
2026 $9,469,454 $3,006,175