jdavidbakr wrote:
If you reduce the bonus, you can get a bigger total because the base salary increases each year, but the bonus does not. Try building an offer with the minimum bonus allowed, you'll see you can at least match if not exceed the top offer.
BUT - the player will sign for the highest bonus, so just because someone has the offer with the most money that doesn't mean that the player will sign for that offer.
So the notation of 'Top Offer' isn't necessarily accurate? Also, shouldn't a player then take the first contract offer that gives the max possible bonus? I offered him max possible salary/bonus on the first round of FA, which was some $30M higher than the next offer, but he decided to continue to test the market, despite it being literally impossible for him to be offered anything higher than what I already had on the table. On the next day it listed a team offering more total money as the 'top offer' (which could only be accomplished by offering less bonus).
Also, it might be necessary to up the total possible bid, since this is two leagues now where I've seen the artificial cap get bumped into.
