2020 Offseason SIM 1 (Options/Arbitration) Complete - Next SIM Tues 1/24

[Matt]

Toronto is the only team with player expenses for 2020 so something is still off. I have a feeling the game charged him (possibly several times) for the Manning bug. I'll wait until we figure out if this is correct or not before I release a new file.

I was wrong. Maine has them for 2020 and 2021, around $7m for each year. NY has them for 2020 but it's only $419k.

[Spear]

Matt - I sent you a new PM. On the November 7th HTML transaction log, Donovan, Nelson, and Manning were all "released" before the December 1st date. Technically they should have been released to the FA pool on December 1st.

It appears I'm being penalized for those expiring contracts.

[PaulC]

I can't even find him on your team. I had to search for him and cut him. Your player expenses went from $19m to $29m for 2020 but I lowered it back to $21m due to the buyout.

You now have $5m for FA. I'll release a new file shortly.

Obviously this is a bug. It needs to be reported in the OOTP forums and we need to watch this in the future. Maybe just a thread of who was released for the commish to check over. We might have to do more 0.5 Offseason SIMs so if this happens again the commish can release them before we get to this point.

Maybe it's just the exchange rate??

[Matt]

This doesn't seem right either. Did you release any other players that would give you $19m in owed money for 2020?

Toronto is the only team with player expenses for 2020 so something is still off. I have a feeling the game charged him (possibly several times) for the Manning bug. I'll wait until we figure out if this is correct or not before I release a new file.

[Spear]

I can't even find him on your team. I had to search for him and cut him. Your player expenses went from $19m to $29m for 2020 but I lowered it back to $21m due to the buyout.

You now have $5m for FA. I'll release a new file shortly.

Obviously this is a bug. It needs to be reported in the OOTP forums and we need to watch this in the future. Maybe just a thread of who was released for the commish to check over. We might have to do more 0.5 Offseason SIMs so if this happens again the commish can release them before we get to this point.

Thanks Matt.

I'll have that $5M + the lowering effect of PD and Scouting. But it's still meaningful.

[Matt]

I can't even find him on your team. I had to search for him and cut him. Your player expenses went from $19m to $29m for 2020 but I lowered it back to $21m due to the buyout.

You now have $5m for FA. I'll release a new file shortly.

This doesn't seem right either. Did you release any other players that would give you $19m in owed money for 2020?

[Matt]

Right. We did the same thing for Manning which it shows in the HTML logs but he's still on my roster and sucking back a valuable $8M from us.

Starting over is reissuing the Dec 1st file with Manning off my roster.

I can't even find him on your team. I had to search for him and cut him. Your player expenses went from $19m to $29m for 2020 but I lowered it back to $21m due to the buyout.

You now have $5m for FA. I'll release a new file shortly.

Obviously this is a bug. It needs to be reported in the OOTP forums and we need to watch this in the future. Maybe just a thread of who was released for the commish to check over. We might have to do more 0.5 Offseason SIMs so if this happens again the commish can release them before we get to this point.

[Spear]

Just write down your offers you made, and it won't be a big deal.

Toronto needs their money dammit!

We're talking 2 real life years in rebuilding. It's time for us to try and compete! We can't even make any offers at all with Manning on the team.

[Pat]

Just write down your offers you made, and it won't be a big deal.

Toronto needs their money dammit!

[Spear]

Pawtucket did that on purpose . We just needed to shed salary. Do we really need to start over ??

Right. We did the same thing for Manning which it shows in the HTML logs but he's still on my roster and sucking back a valuable $8M from us.

Starting over is reissuing the Dec 1st file with Manning off my roster.

[funclown]

Thanks Matt.

Oscar Sanchez on Pawtucket was the only other one in the HTML transactions log that had a buyout and showed the same thing as Manning. However, he actually went into the FA pool.

Pawtucket did that on purpose . We just needed to shed salary. Do we really need to start over ??

[Spear]

I'm gonna have to release a new file. No imports can be used without advancing so it will be like starting over for everyone.

Before I do this does anyone else see this is any transaction logs so we don't have to do this again?

Thanks Matt.

Oscar Sanchez on Pawtucket was the only other one in the HTML transactions log that had a buyout and showed the same thing as Manning. However, he actually went into the FA pool.

[Matt]

Matt/Brad/Z,

Any thoughts on we can resolve this Manning situation?

I'm gonna have to release a new file. No imports can be used without advancing so it will be like starting over for everyone.

Before I do this does anyone else see this is any transaction logs so we don't have to do this again?

[Spear]

Matt/Brad/Z,

Any thoughts on we can resolve this Manning situation?

Offered Cardona $4 mil but the arbitrator ruled in favor of him and he got $5.5 mil. Would've liked the extra cash, but that's still a decent price for him. Won my case with Johnson and lost with Farris, but that was only like a $100k difference.