This may be a dumb question, but here goes:

This is my first year in HBD. I took over a franchise that was carrying more than $7million of salary for released players. Is it possible to resign a player that had been released in a previous year? The players are no prizes, but if we're paying their salaries, they could at least be helping relieve fatigue, etc. If it is possible to resign one, how will that affect my salary cap situation -- do I basically just take on the salary that we would have been paying anyway? Maybe it's not even possible. But before I hit the "submit" button I want to have an idea of what the effect would be.

I'm pretty sure you'll just end up paying them anyway, butif you try to trade, waive, etc. you'll only move the ML min. salary that you're paying "this time".

You're stuck paying the original contract until it has run its course. If you resign the player you'll pay the original plus a new contract for his demands. You'd be better off finding help somewhere else unless there are no other options.

Quote: Originally Posted By sparrow31 on 7/02/2009
You're stuck paying the original contract until it has run its course. If you resign the player you'll pay the original plus a new contract for his demands. You'd be better off finding help somewhere else unless there are no other options.

If a player has been released, they only demand the ML minimum. And if nobody else signs him, you'd be paying that, too.

Thanks for the help. It's actually about $9 million in sunk costs this year for guys the previous owner released. Two of the three guys wouldn't even be worth taking up a 40-man roster spot for, but one is getting paid so much that it might have made sense to get him -- but only if I wouldn't have paid him more than I already am. I guess I'll have to just suck it up until his contract finally expires.

Quote: Originally Posted By iain on 7/02/2009I'm pretty sure you'll just end up paying them anyway, butif you try to trade, waive, etc. you'll only move the ML min. salary that you're paying "this time".

Is that true? I thought that if you re-signed a guy you were already paying, that the two parts of his contract (the ML minimum and the rest) were "re-joined"?

I thought somebody had proved that a couple of years ago (?)

Quote: Originally Posted By tecwrg on 7/06/2009

Quote: Originally Posted By iain on 7/02/2009
I'm pretty sure you'll just end up paying them anyway, butif you try to trade, waive, etc. you'll only move the ML min. salary that you're paying "this time".

Is that true? I thought that if you re-signed a guy you were already paying, that the two parts of his contract (the ML minimum and the rest) were "re-joined"?

I thought somebody had proved that a couple of years ago (?)

Nope. Quite the opposite.

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I could have sworn a n00b was on here complaining that he couldn't move the entire salary of a player that had been released by a previous owner, then reaquired by subsequent previous owner.

Meh.

Why are you listening to n00b's?

your name is bill?

Fresh eyes, dude.

Fresh doesn't always mean stupid.

Quote: Originally Posted By sergei91 on 7/07/2009your name is bill

sergei says what we're all thinking. :)

Damn contradictions...
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2/18/2010 2:12 PM zbrent716
Why hasn't the contract for Nicholas Graham (http://www.whatifsports.com/HBD/Pages/Popups/PlayerProfile.aspx?pid=2753198) "merged" back into one contract?

He was auto-released and then I resigned him, but when I go to trade him now, the only money a new team would be responsible for is the league minimum, instead of having the contract merged and be treated as a single contract for full value.

2/18/2010 3:21 PM Customer Support

When you release a player, you're responsible for his contract, even if you sign him back.

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Tec, could you please share the ticket # of your original ticket, so that I can reference it in my response when I try to get past the first-level CS.

Ticket #77336.