"Can no longer afford the contract offered"

**birthday_massacre** · 03-09-2013, 03:31 AM

Re: "Can no longer afford the contract offered"

Originally posted by Majingir

Is this a bug or something in this game? It makes franchise mode unplayable.

I have so much money available and when I try to sign someone, I get that message(the whole "___ can no longer afford the contract offered.....the offer has been withdrawn"). I even tried signing the worst guy to smallest 1yr deal possible, and I still got that message.

Anyone else have this problem, if so, how do we fix this? I was having fun in franchise mode but now I can't even play it again until this issue gets fixed cause I can't advance further since my minor league roster isn't even at minimum. Like I said, my available budget is huge, yet I still can't sign anyone, and only like 70-80 guys signed to contracts too so not like my roster is full.

If this in the off season? If so did you already offer someone else money and are waiting to see if they sign?

For example, lets say you have 20m in cap space.
And you put offers out there for 10m 5m and 4m per year.

You wont be able to sign another player for more than 1m.

**Majingir** · 03-09-2013, 03:34 AM

Re: "Can no longer afford the contract offered"

Originally posted by birthday_massacre

If this in the off season? If so did you already offer someone else money and are waiting to see if they sign?

For example, lets say you have 20m in cap space.
And you put offers out there for 10m 5m and 4m per year.

You wont be able to sign another player for more than 1m.

It's offseason

No, I made sure my pending offers was at 0 and signed someone and I still couldn't.

I checked TSN bug report and seems like someone did report this too. Hopefully it does get fixed. If not, then all these changes to franchise meant nothing cause we can't play it.

**birthday_massacre** · 03-09-2013, 03:50 AM

Re: "Can no longer afford the contract offered"

Originally posted by Majingir

It's offseason

No, I made sure my pending offers was at 0 and signed someone and I still couldn't.

I checked TSN bug report and seems like someone did report this too. Hopefully it does get fixed. If not, then all these changes to franchise meant nothing cause we can't play it.

Make sure you hit plus 1 on the bug report. The more people that haev the issue the quicker it will get looked at and fixed.

Btw a work around for this could be to try and swing a trade maybe a 2 for 1 to get your roster full.

**BBallcoach** · 03-09-2013, 04:25 AM

Re: "Can no longer afford the contract offered"

The Pending Offers says 0? cause they include arbitration offers in there too... I missed out on Lincecum because of that, but I offered 4yrs 6.5 mill/year and he took tampa's 3 yr 4.0 mill/year... Im using boston he would have been my #2 or ace potentially if Lester went down

**Bat** · 03-09-2013, 05:07 AM

Re: "Can no longer afford the contract offered"

The money thing is confusing. it says potential offers or whatever and available on the other side..

I try signing people all the time and apparently I cant afford it ever. I imagine it it is from arbitration and all that but its not clear enough.

A couple things I have caught on to. After the draft ditch the high priced scouts. Only hire more after you have your team set each season. Scouts aren't bound by contract so no penalties for firing. Also if you have the AI renew contracts and do arbitration, offer as little possible. They will offer way more in those type of deals than needed and added up it can be a big difference.

Still seems alittle weird.Having a 84 mil payroll and only 3 guys in the 9 mil range, then everyone else less than a mil... No high price scouts and very high priced coaches in every position (that takes up alot) and I am out of money.

**BBallcoach** · 03-09-2013, 06:59 AM

Re: "Can no longer afford the contract offered"

Originally posted by Bat

The money thing is confusing. it says potential offers or whatever and available on the other side..

I try signing people all the time and apparently I cant afford it ever. I imagine it it is from arbitration and all that but its not clear enough.

A couple things I have caught on to. After the draft ditch the high priced scouts. Only hire more after you have your team set each season. Scouts aren't bound by contract so no penalties for firing. Also if you have the AI renew contracts and do arbitration, offer as little possible. They will offer way more in those type of deals than needed and added up it can be a big difference.

Still seems alittle weird.Having a 84 mil payroll and only 3 guys in the 9 mil range, then everyone else less than a mil... No high price scouts and very high priced coaches in every position (that takes up alot) and I am out of money.

thats a good tip I may have to do that, but the problem is then you have to budget for good scouts.

**decga** · 03-09-2013, 07:22 AM

Re: "Can no longer afford the contract offered"

For some reason I think the sport games nowadays penalize you for not playing all your games. I could be wrong though. I let you guys when I finished a franchise season of 162. If you look at we get unrealistic results when we simmed thru seasons... Just my two cents.

**Spear** · 03-09-2013, 09:39 AM

Re: "Can no longer afford the contract offered"

How come all the teams only have approx $10M for available free agents in Franchise mode? Do the budgets change after year 1?

**Majingir** · 03-09-2013, 12:36 PM

Re: "Can no longer afford the contract offered"

Has anyone NOT had this problem in offseason when signing other free agents?

Here's the link if you wanna vote + on the issue:

http://www.theshownation.com/bug_reports/10566

**Knight165** · 03-09-2013, 12:42 PM

Re: "Can no longer afford the contract offered"

Originally posted by Majingir

Has anyone NOT had this problem in offseason when signing other free agents?

Here's the link if you wanna vote + on the issue:
http://www.theshownation.com/bug_reports/10566

When you are at the FA signing screen....
What is the $$$ amount on the right? (pending offers)

The game is supposed to put in all your offers PLUS all the players you would need to sign to at least the league minimum to fill all 90 spots in that pending area.

M.K.
Knight165

**Majingir** · 03-09-2013, 12:50 PM

Re: "Can no longer afford the contract offered"

There's 2 tries I did, one was before all the signings(so I had yet to offer arbitration to any of my guys, and I didn't make any contract offers to anyone who has contract renewal or up for arbitration) and another was after all the signings(after arbitration period,and contract renewals, so I had 3M left,and still couldn't even sign anyone to 100k deal)

**tabarnes19_SDS** · 03-09-2013, 01:40 PM

Re: "Can no longer afford the contract offered"

Thing to keep in mind is the number(budget) on left doesn't change. It's your total available budget. The number on the right is pending offers. So even though pending goes up the budget number doesn't change.

so for example

20 million budget 18 million pending

That does not mean I still have 20 million available. I have 2 million actually available.

I have been practicing with small market teams and it seems to work fine, maybe a little too rigid. My concern is some teams stock pile budget room in future seasons.

The first couple years the numbers look good. I think budgets balloon too much after that. I've been running some sims and teams 3-4 years out have 30-70 million available. I am not seeing any real penalty to losing. Seems every team gets 10% increase across the board, maybe a little more for some, and 1 to 2 teams take a small decrease(usually yankees) and the maybe one team stays the same.

I don't have a problem with the budgets increasing if salaries increase with them.

**Majingir** · 03-09-2013, 01:45 PM

Re: "Can no longer afford the contract offered"

Originally posted by tabarnes19

Thing to keep in mind is the number(budget) on left doesn't change. It's your total available budget. The number on the right is pending offers. So even though pending goes up the budget number doesn't change.

so for example

20 million budget 18 million pending

That does not mean I still have 20 million available. I have 2 million actually available.

I have been practicing with small market teams and it seems to work fine, maybe a little too rigid. My concern is some teams stock pile budget room in future seasons.

The first couple years the numbers look good. I think budgets balloon too much after that. I've been running some sims and teams 3-4 years out have 30-70 million available. I am not seeing any real penalty to losing. Seems every team gets 10% increase across the board, maybe a little more for some, and 1 to 2 teams take a small decrease(usually yankees) and the maybe one team stays the same.

I don't have a problem with the budgets increasing if salaries increase with them.

I know that, I've already said numerous times that my pending budget was 0 and I still wasn't able to sign guys to 100k deals!

**Majingir** · 03-09-2013, 01:58 PM

Re: "Can no longer afford the contract offered"

My budget:

Message I get(this player who is like 40 overall had full interest in 2 year deal where he gets 30k a year)

"Can no longer afford the contract offered"

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