Does a player's contract extension demand change during the season based on his performance? Or will it stay the same as it  was when the season first started?

Contract demands are constant for the duration of the season. They are based on overall rating. Performance has zero impact to them.

I have heard differerent overeasy, although my original thinking was what you had said

Posted by overeasy on 8/8/2010 5:33:00 PM (view original):
Contract demands are constant for the duration of the season. They are based on overall rating. Performance has zero impact to them.

The second and third sentences are 100% true.

I believe the first is not entirely correct. I think demands can go up or down (mostly down) over the course of a season, as ratings do. Generally you won't see much improvement from a pending FA though, so you'll only notice this if/when the pending FA suffers a bad injury and has a ratings drop.

This is why it is generally best to hold off on signing extensions until very near to the end of the season.

"?I believe the first is not entirely correct. I think demands can go up or down (mostly down) over the course of a season, as ratings do. Generally you won't see much improvement from a pending FA though, so you'll only notice this if/when the pending FA suffers a bad injury and has a ratings drop."



Had a Cy Young type pitcher go from 'want to test market' to a reasonable contract extension request after a major injury. The ratings change can shift demands.

If an older player is going through a natural decline (i.e. not due to injury), his overall rating could decline and I suspect that his contract demands would also go down accordingly.