mventres
04-09-2010, 07:23 AM
I have been playing a single player game of 6.3b and am presently at year 2037. Anyways, I moved the yearly salary cap increase range down by 20% on the lower and upper limits. I've recently noticed a weird, unrealistic issue.
An increasing number of CPU managers have been signing players to HUGE contracts which are not feasible, nor realistic, for the salary cap range and estimated future caps. For example, at cap 150mil, several teams have been signing QBs at 40+mil per year on 5+ year contracts, DEs at 25+ yearly, etc. Of course, there are weird GMs in reality who would do this, but the real problem is in the rest of the roster. For example, recently team NOS had 10 players signed to a cap hit of 30mil, total cap hit of 180mil. They then proceed to sign (a) DE at 25mil, (b)DT at 15mil, (c) 2 WR at 20mil each (d) ILB at 20 mil (e) QB at 40mil. Including the original 30mil, the cap hit is now 170 mil, leaving 10mil for the remaining 30 players! After the draft the team was forced to release a just signed WR and a Pro Bowl T.
The problem is compounded by the huge amount of unavailable cap space that amounts after many years of this strategy. In a previous league, one team had about 20-30% of its total cap hit unavailable for about 15 years because it continually signed players and then releasing them to free cap space.
Just wondering if anybody else has seen this weirdness?
I have also experienced several other cap-related oddness. Quickly, another issue is the lack of attempts at resigning present players during the season by CPU managers.
I would suggest incorporating a "capologist" into the game, or to provide some parameter settings which control the spending rate on high priced players. That is, how aggressive a team is in improving it's skill level versus its cap in the present and future years.
It would also be very cool to have a window popup during the draft if another team desires to make a draft pick deal, either at their turn or yours. A listing, such as the gray list, with players/draft pics that a team is looking at dealing. In the case of draft pics, it can be based on team needs, draft quality for those positions and overall, etc...anyways, that is for another posting....
An increasing number of CPU managers have been signing players to HUGE contracts which are not feasible, nor realistic, for the salary cap range and estimated future caps. For example, at cap 150mil, several teams have been signing QBs at 40+mil per year on 5+ year contracts, DEs at 25+ yearly, etc. Of course, there are weird GMs in reality who would do this, but the real problem is in the rest of the roster. For example, recently team NOS had 10 players signed to a cap hit of 30mil, total cap hit of 180mil. They then proceed to sign (a) DE at 25mil, (b)DT at 15mil, (c) 2 WR at 20mil each (d) ILB at 20 mil (e) QB at 40mil. Including the original 30mil, the cap hit is now 170 mil, leaving 10mil for the remaining 30 players! After the draft the team was forced to release a just signed WR and a Pro Bowl T.
The problem is compounded by the huge amount of unavailable cap space that amounts after many years of this strategy. In a previous league, one team had about 20-30% of its total cap hit unavailable for about 15 years because it continually signed players and then releasing them to free cap space.
Just wondering if anybody else has seen this weirdness?
I have also experienced several other cap-related oddness. Quickly, another issue is the lack of attempts at resigning present players during the season by CPU managers.
I would suggest incorporating a "capologist" into the game, or to provide some parameter settings which control the spending rate on high priced players. That is, how aggressive a team is in improving it's skill level versus its cap in the present and future years.
It would also be very cool to have a window popup during the draft if another team desires to make a draft pick deal, either at their turn or yours. A listing, such as the gray list, with players/draft pics that a team is looking at dealing. In the case of draft pics, it can be based on team needs, draft quality for those positions and overall, etc...anyways, that is for another posting....