Sign & Trade

[Godard]

When trading for a guy who's in his contract year, it's possible for the other owner to sign the guy to a long contract at terms you might not want before pulling the trigger.

I wonder if there's a way to prevent this, like perhaps not allowing you to extend a guys contract if you have trades offered to others/trades offered to you that are not yet rejected.

Did any of that make sense?

[Particleman]

Here's what happened to Godard, he is the GM of Minnesota in the Mogul Enthusiasts League. Minnesota has a tiny budget as we all know, and I guess he wanted to make a playoff run or something. So he traded for a young ace pitcher on the last year of his contract earning 1 pt. However before the other party accepted the trade he signed him to a 7 year 70 pt deal, one that Minnesota can't possibly afford. I edited the contract back to one pt on its last year, since Minnesota can't possibly afford the renegotiated contract.

[Godard]

1) Thanks for fixing that, Particleman

2) I really appreciate the condescending tone about my playoff run ;)

3) Is there anything that can be written into the code to prevent this sort of childish shenanigan in the future?

[Cipster]

Well Godard, June is right around the corner and we all know what happens to Minesota in June :)
Must be the warm weather or something....

[James Grove]

I'll take this one up with Clay and Ian and see if we can find a solution.

Thanks for pointing this out.

-James

[Godard]

Yeah, I have my best team yet, and am in a terrible division, and I didn't even have my usual fast start. Good lord, where are the Twin Cities gonna end up this year?

(A: in 4th place and on free agency)

[drew]

Well, there's one person not responding to this thread... He's the one who ruined the trade by signing the extension


(edited to avoid a flame war)