question for those who have played at least 1 season

[Jeff Olsen]

How are the salary demands? Any signs of Clay & Ian curtailing the inflation rate?

[sfbennett1]

Did one season just to see what the free agents would ask ...

POSITION PLAYERS $ / YR (AVG - HR in '04)
Edmonds 18.5 / 6 (.325 - 34)
Piazza 13.5 / 5 (.294 - 43)
Berroa 12.9 / 5 (.305 - 12)
Lugo 12.1 / 5 (.298 - 16)
Cintron 11.6 / 5 (.304 - 20)

PITCHERS $ / YR (ERA - IP in '04)
Schmidt 15.5 / 6 (3.69 - 202.2)
Wood 15.2 / 6 (4.04 - 162.2)
Prior 14.3 / 3 (2.82 - 198.0)
Wagner 13.3 / 5 (3.44 - 73.1)
Percival 12.9 / 4 (3.03 - 89.0)

Dunno if that's what you were wanting to see ... still seems pretty pricey to me, since Vlad got $14, and shortstops are still over-valued.

[Jeff Olsen]

Thanks, that helps. Guess I'll hold off on this one for the time being.

[boomboom]

Jeff,

this game rocks, but you should try the demo once it comes out to see if you like it.

The game is the best yet!

[iansmith]

Originally posted by Jeff Olsen
How are the salary demands? Any signs of Clay & Ian curtailing the inflation rate?

The official position of the Sports Mogul Reserve Board on inflation at this point is that a carefull watching of the player salaries is a possible position that we are considering looking into.

--
Ian "Greenspan" Smith

[TwinswillWin]

Wow if you were a little kid or dumber than me (which is pretty dumb anyways) you might not understand what Ian just said

[Jeff Olsen]

Originally posted by boomboom
this game rocks, but you should try the demo once it comes out to see if you like it. That I will. I see Clay & Ian have attempted to address the salary situation in the first patch.

[Clay Dreslough]

Originally posted by Jeff Olsen
That I will. I see Clay & Ian have attempted to address the salary situation in the first patch.

In all fairness though I only addressed it a little bit.

I tested the game for a while in May and found that it was too easy to grab great players relatively cheaply, so I cranked things back up before we shipped.

What I would like to do is a add a slider so that individual users can experiment -- that's more accurate than me playing 10 seasons.

Clay

[jrmiedzinski]

A slider would be awesome. one thing that would probably get rid of players asking for too much money would be free agent bidding.

[Jeff Olsen]

Originally posted by Clay Dreslough
What I would like to do is a add a slider so that individual users can experiment -- that's more accurate than me playing 10 seasons.If you do, let me know when it's implemented and I'll definately buy the game then.

[Jeff Olsen]

Decided to buy the game anyway. :)

Loaded 1998 into v7.01 and salaries look good. Only about a dozen players are earning above 15M and Junior is the only one of those who isn't a pitcher.

[Jeff Olsen]

Two years later: 15 players earning above 15M and four of them are shortstops. Only four pitchers in the bunch now.

[TwinswillWin]

Carlos Delgado
Age: 36
Avg:.267
HR:27
Games Played:133
Peak:79
Overall:79
Demand for for next 3 seasons: 15.2 mil
Previous salary: 4,500,000

[TwinswillWin]

Vernon Wells
Age: 28
Games Played:151
Avg:.302
HR:22
SB:6
peak:92
Overall:92
Demands for 3 years: 24,900,000
Previous Salary: 5,800,000

[TwinswillWin]

To me Wells' demand was more reasonable him being younger and a better prospect. Delgado has good carrer numbers but 15.2 mil and your getting old come on.