Emergency I Need Someones Help

[nyyanks1]

i overbid on a free agent by over 100 points. how do i fix that. PLEASE HELP!! i didnt know what to do so now i increased the bid to 300 points for 7 years. I dont want to get stuck with that contract.

I am the yankees in the House of Gryffindor league. I bid on Scott Rolen, but I screwed it up. PLease help before the next sim.

[takaplan]

Since this is not a public league, we cannot help you. However, if you contact your commissioner, then he or she can edit his contract to a smaller salary.

Unfortunately, it seems no one has ever posted in the House of Gryffindor forum, so I doubt anyone will be able to help you because the league does not seem active.

Tom Kaplan
Moderator

[James Grove]

Here's a start, nyyanks1 -

You are not committed to making your top bid; you are only committed to paying 1 point more than the previous top bidder.

So assuming that the free agent bidding was up to (for example) 30 points for 3 years, and you put in a bid of 300 points for 3 years, your final bid could be as low as 31 points for 3 years.

If the previous high bidder had a secret "max bid" of 40 points for 3 years, then you would have outbid that secret max. In that case, you would get the player for 41 points for 3 years.

In order to reduce your chance of paying any more money, go change the "Max Bid" next to the player. I suspect it probably has a max of 300. Change that number to 0 (or to whatever you actually want for your top price) without putting any numbers in the "Points" or "Years" fields, then click the "Bid" button.

This will revise your max bid without increasing the current high bid.

So while you can't completely undo the damage, you can minimize the future impact.

If you win the bidding and don't want the player, you can try trading him to the other bidder.

And if things are really messed up, send me an email and I'll see what I can do.

-James

P.S. Don't forget that "1 point more than the previous high bidder" assumes that you are bidding on the same number of years. If you offered the player more or fewer years, then he may be willing to accept your offer for more or less money than the current high bid. But your new bid, regardless of the length of the contract, will be equivalent to "1 point more" in the eyes of the player.