I had a busy week, and made an offer to an International Free Agent (IFA) who had been available for negotiations for a few days. I made him a big league offer, and there is a suggestion that IFAs will not accept 1 yr big league offers so it recommended making an offer with a minimum of three years. So I did.

The cycle happened to end right after I made the offer, and I got a message from the IFA saying that he only wanted a one year offer so a minor league deal would do - and that he would accept my offer if I remade it as a one year deal. But when I tried to make that one year offer, I learned he had already signed with another team - for less money (he accepted a $3M bonus, my offer was $5M).

This is a rather minor issue, but I would suggest either changing the wording in that message/sending a different message if the player accepts another offer in that same cycle OR changing the programming so that if an IFA has a higher offer on a three year big league deal, then he doesn't accept a lower, one year, minor league deal until the other owner has a chance to make the higher offer on a one year, minor league deal (which the player would obviously wait for in real life).

Thanks,

David

I am pretty sure you can only offer bonuses to IFAs, with the possible addition of a spring training invite. The contract, different than the bonus, will be whatever minor-league level you assign him to, with the Rookie level being the default.

So if I read your post correctly, your offer of a $5M contract (not sure of your bonus offer) would have been trumped by a $3M bonus.

The $5M was a bonus offer. You can't enter anything but the Rookie-level minimum for the 1st season. So it was not trumped by $3M, which also had to be a bonus offer.