Problem with Real Contract Roster Files

[seymmj6]

Does any else run into a problem with budgets when using real life contracts roster files?

Every offseason there are great free agents and they don't receive a single bid because no team has enough money to make the offers. My last season started with Jose Reyes, Carlos Gomez, Jose Bautista, Madison Bumgardner, and a whole bunch of mid 80's-to mid 70's rated guys.

I think having real contracts add an amazing level of reality to the game. A Rod should be an albatross of a contract and not the wildly inaccurate amount SECA put into the game. But if the franchise mode can't function properly with this then I guess it's impossible to use Real contracts.

Also, I have tried turning the budgets off, and while this has fixed the problem of teams not signing any players the CPU trades (even though I turned CPU trades off) are irritating. Kershaw got traded straight up for Verlander.

Other than using 30-team control has anyone found a work around for having real life contracts?

Also, how come even with CPU trading off the offseason is always riddled with a massive amount of CPU trades for stars?

[HypoLuxa13]

I simmed one season using OSFM rosters, I did not see the budget issue you have reported. Maybe I need to go further? One thing I did see that was really, really weird - Colorado traded Troy Tulowitzki to the Mets for Zach Wheeler early in the first season, probably in late May. Then the Mets waived Tulowitzki and he was a free agent. Only to have the Mets re-sign him a few days later. Really weird, I chocked it up to budget issues as well.

[seymmj6]

To my knowledge OSFM does not use real contract values. They use what SECA had in the game. The budget issue only comes up when you use a roster file that has adjusted everyone's contracts to what they really are, not the fictitious ones SECA uses for some reason.