MyEra Rookie Contracts

[jeffhamm]

Does anyone know of a way to prevent rookie contracts from skyrocketing during MyEras? Their contracts are borderline max deals by the early 2000s.

This is with the 83 start.

[HeatLifer]

All I know is you can implement a rule change at the start of the season to decrease or increase rookie contracts. Not sure if that's a fix or helpful, but it's an option the game allows.

[jeffhamm]

Thanks for the reply but no luck. #3 overall pick in the 1992 draft makes as much as MJ on his max deal.

[jimbo3772]

Quote: Originally Posted by jeffhamm

Thanks for the reply but no luck. #3 overall pick in the 1992 draft makes as much as MJ on his max deal.

It may be intentional. There were no rookie salary caps until 1995. Jordan's salary for the 1992-93 season was $4 million and rookie Shaq's salary that season was $3 million.

[jeffhamm]

That isn’t too egregious but it gets a lot more one sided. As you move into and past the 2000s. Like $20m+ rookie deals(per season).

[dwayne12345]

Quote: Originally Posted by jeffhamm

Thanks for the reply but no luck. #3 overall pick in the 1992 draft makes as much as MJ on his max deal.

That would be historically accurate. Look up the story of Danny Ferry's first contract.

[Armor and Sword]

Quote: Originally Posted by dwayne12345

That would be historically accurate. Look up the story of Danny Ferry's first contract.

Filed on the whatever happened to this guy!

Danny Ferry.......man talk about a bust.

[jimbo3772]

Quote: Originally Posted by jeffhamm

That isn’t too egregious but it gets a lot more one sided. As you move into and past the 2000s. Like $20m+ rookie deals(per season).

I looked through the franchise options on contracts and there's only thing I can see that would possibly make a difference. If you go into the tuning sliders for the league under the Contracts tab and then scroll down to Salary Expectations, there is a slider for "Max Rating". It says if you lower it, then lower rated players will expect max contracts. One would expect doing the opposite to have the opposite effect...i.e., increasing the slider above 50 would increase the rating a player would have to have in order to demand a max contract. Theoretically, raising that bar to a certain point should weed out the rookies since they come in with somewhat limited ratings initially. What that point on the slider is, I have no idea. I've never messed with that one and never seen any info about using it.