I had the 3rd overall pick and selected someone who was only looking for first 5 rounds, yet he’s been holding out for 10 real life days. He’s not asking for more money, will offering it even help?

He is just about the last first rounder left to sign and with my settings set to very conservative I wasn’t expecting this issue.

I’d really like to sign him as he projects to high 80s/low 90s.

Anything I can do at this point?

He'll sign, just be patient.

Don't offer more; you'd be just throwing your money away.

and losing your comp pick of he doesn't sign.

If you offer more than slot and he doesn’t sign you lose your comp pick?

Posted by mike22182 on 6/17/2018 10:46:00 AM (view original):
If you offer more than slot and he doesn’t sign you lose your comp pick?

Not sure about this, but I am pretty sure there's never any reason to offer more than his demand. It won't "convince him" to make up his mind.

Posted by damag on 6/17/2018 11:21:00 AM (view original):

Posted by mike22182 on 6/17/2018 10:46:00 AM (view original):
If you offer more than slot and he doesn’t sign you lose your comp pick?

Not sure about this, but I am pretty sure there's never any reason to offer more than his demand. It won't "convince him" to make up his mind.

This is correct. Don't ever up your offer before he ups his demands.

On this topic, do players who want to be drafted in the first 5 rounds ever come back and demand more money or do they just occasionally drag their feet prior to signing?

On this same topic, in a similar situation but my guy has come back with increased demands. Shrewdly (hah!), I spent the rest of my prospect money signing other guys and can’t match his demands. Do I lose out on a potential comp pick since I can’t meet the new demands? Or was meeting the original demands enough?

Posted by CheezyWriter on 7/24/2018 9:38:00 AM (view original):
On this same topic, in a similar situation but my guy has come back with increased demands. Shrewdly (hah!), I spent the rest of my prospect money signing other guys and can’t match his demands. Do I lose out on a potential comp pick since I can’t meet the new demands? Or was meeting the original demands enough?

If you met his original demand, you did not withdraw the offer, and he turned it down but asked for more, you are now eligible for a Type D comp pick in next season's draft.

Whew! Not all is lost! Thanks, damag!

I had a similar situation. Here's what happened to me. I took over a very poor team. It had 3rd draft pick. I set my draft settings for Round 1 where I think on the draft settings page it says "if you set for Very Conservative" the draft engine will draft (for you) only "openly signable players." Well it drafted (for me) a GREAT Pitcher who would not and did NOT sign! I went to war with WIS over this. 1st they told me it wouldn't draft "openly signable" players with that setting. I pointed them to their exact wording; but they wouldn't budge. To Make a long story short, I found that they have a contradictory statement in another place in their guidelines...so you can get screwed even if you have a very conservative setting...

p.s. I will look for the contradictory verbage again and report it here again when I find it again.

So, I find they have corrected the contradiction now. On the draft settings page, under signing risk level, it USED to say (I cut and pasted it from there page at the time and sent it to them and I am retyping it from the saved message to them now...

"A "Very Conservative" approach will ensure that any player drafted in that round will be openly signable for "slot money."

While at the time in their Players guide under Amateur Draft, it said:

"A "Very Conservative" Approach will ensure that any Player drafted in that round will be openly signable."

At the time, and in setting up my draft settings and referring to the statement on the draft settings page and not realizing their was a contradiction elsewhere, I budgetted only enough for slot money and the guy demanded $2.1M more than I had; meaning I needed to get about $6.0M more to transfer $3.0M more into the prospect budget to make the $2.1M more.

They 1st argued pointing to the Players guide and stating..."It isn't that they will sign for slot money, only that they are openly signable.
I pointed them to the Draft settings page contradiction..

So, now I see they have taken out the "For slot money" clause on the draft settings page, making both statements equal.

So now it seems they will sign, but to figure a way is not clear....