Many of my high level players are set to be free agents and I cant them to sign. Any suggestions?

Bonus amount is the key figure. Say a player wants a $6 million bonus on a 3 year contract but you don't have cap room. Extend the contract length to 6 years then slide the salary bar left until you get down to the bonus figure you're shooting for, $6 million in my example. By moving the length of the contract to 6 years instead of 3, you can offer half the salary yet still meet the bonus figure.

These players aren't economics majors, they don't care what the salary or contract length is so long as they get that bonus amount they want. What you need to watch out for is doing this to guys already mid-late career. When they retire, all unused bonus money screws with your cap.

Exactly. Just find out what the min bonus they will sign for. Then do what RG69 says below and it will help your cap. Even current players with a few years left you can extend before they are coming up on FA. That will help cap too.

The longer the contract the better just watch out for retirement issues.

Anyone got the connection to that thread?
Pernbronze
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https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CmTtP5yJ2gzR7gaCdzSulvPna_9BgUszMKnYIZPn9PI/edit#gid=1238903267

I tried signing them to higher salary and bonus's, yet they rejected them. Panther's future looks bleak

Use jsid's spreadsheet and offer them $30,000 more bonus than they are asking for.

It's possible they just want to hit the market, or get away from you. I have had teams where players would reject my offers even though I offered exactly what they wanted before the season ended. Idk why exactly or I'd give you a better answer.

On the plus side, you'll have extra cap room to bid on available free agents and may even come out looking better. Every team should have some players hit the market and they won't all ****.

I have only had 1 player ever reject a contract offer. I tried like 4 rounds plus end of season. But using jsid wizard has help me control the salary cap.

I found at the beginning of the season during early free agency I sign the players I know I want to keep. Any players on the fringe that I am not too sure about I monitor them during the season and if they perform around week 14 or 15 I start signing them.

As long as they are happy or neutral, I've never had an issue re-signing a guy for the min bonus required. Maybe they were unhappy?