Hey all. So as you know, I delayed the spin by a day to get something figured out before moving forward. The issue was regarding WR Aurelio Smith, who was offered a max contract but had a bit more money added to the base value of his contract (the non-bonus part). We had a rule a while back in this league regarding manipulating bonus money in max contracts like these as seen in this thread https://ncaa-football.myfootballnow.com/forums/1/1105?page=1. However, given the fact that the rule did not specifically state base money, as well as the fact that other owners have been doing this recently too, I have decided to expand the longstanding rule to include both base and bonus manipulation for max contracts but let this signing occur since it was not an explicit rule. To clarify, this means that in future contracts, if offering a max contract, you cannot change base or bonus values to be higher than the max allowed by the sliders. This will allow for good competition when signing the top tier players since a max contract allows everyone who bid one a chance at the player.

When offering the max 6 year contract this offseason, the money cannot be larger than this:

Year: Base: Bonus:
1 6,548,624 19,645,871
2 6,876,056 19,645,871
3 7,219,859 19,645,871
4 7,580,852 19,645,871
5 7,959,895 19,645,871
6 8,357,890 19,645,871

These values will obviously change year to year based on the rising salary cap, but the point still stands. I know multiple owners have tried to manually make it higher than this, so from now on, the rule is in plain sight for everyone to observe. I appreciate everyone's understanding and cooperation, and I'm looking forward to the draft (July 25-26)!

Thank goodness I wasn't in this demolition derby, but the Smirtinator does it even worse than that. I suspect that the jilted runners-up will be coming after me, hard.

I like this. It spares time and puts everyone on an equal playing field. Slider and slider to the max with no write in ballots lol ...much easier this way.

I see I was mentioned. lol Yes, it's either do it or lose out to an Infinity or my homie Michael whom are gunning hard as f*** as well! :)

when I did this about 8 seasons ago, it was posted not to do again. Tommy had imposed a penalty for doing this....like loss of future picks....not sure about that now.
John Wayne Shooters.

I dont remember if anyone set the penalty.
Does the manager have to cut the player & have JB rework his cap and everyone else has a chance to offer a contract once the waiver period is up?
Commish 'assigns' their Round 1 pick (or future picks depending on severity of the offense)?
Other?

I'm not ready to inflict penalties just yet. It does **** that it is someone who has been here awhile!

I'm new to the league, so could someone explain why there is even a need for a rule regarding contracts?

Assuming cap space isn't an issue, nobody is able to offer a contract to a FA that I am not also able to offer.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but if I'm not, why the need for a rule to limit how much you can offer?

If you do want to limit how much can be offered for some reason, why not just have a rule saying you can't offer more than $10 M per year instead of having some number that changes every year?

There is some odd glitch that happens if you manipulate the base or bonus numbers. This causes people to be able to offer more than if I only use the sliders to set the max.

I would much rather have everyone on the same page.

But it isn't more than anyone else can offer, right? It still doesn't make any sense to me.

I ask because for me there is a glitch when I try to use the sliders when paying a max bonus.

I guess someone is going to need to post the max contact values each year.

This is for this year. All I did was move both sliders to the right. I have never played around with manipulating the numbers so I don't even know how to offer more than this.
This may be the only league I ever give max contracts.