Can understand you're take on this kicker10, however, it was the AI owner. This happens when a team is left open, the AI uses the "Renegotiation Wizard", which is not good at making roster decisions relative to player worth, same as the trade meter values. So, the "wizard" overpays and the roster goes into a salary cap problem, then the AI goes into "automatic", same as when you get the message if your salary cap has gone over, and cuts the highest paid players to get under the cap. Plus you have the rookies salary impact, which hikes the cap unless you void contracts on rooks that are not worth the pay.

So, there's only two choices that I can see. We let it go and play on as greyghost suggested. Or I temporarily take over Disney and reclaim the players either by having them cut by the teams that claimed them off the waiver wire or by trade.

There are only two high rated players involved, so its not as bad a "dump" as I first thought.

1. LB Joe Rhinehart, 8 yr vet, 97 AI default rating. picked up by the Riptide, greyghost

2. RG Richard Kim, 7 yr vet, 98 DR. picked up by the Burn, setherick

If I missed a high rater, please post it, dont think I did, there were a couple of borderliners, in the 70 default value range.

Like I stated before, I dont want to penalize anyone for being "heads up" and checking the waiver wire on a daily basis, thats a part of the game. What I dont like is the **** AI owner screwing up a team, same as the AI coach not calling a TO when you have the opposing team pinned down inside their own 5 with 1 1/2 minutes to go or less in the first half.

Overall, the damage to the team & league is not as much as I initially thought, so unless there's a strong opinion from others that has merit, I will let this go. Lets have a good season, cheers, gdb

I am fine with leaving it as is and getting the season started. However, G'dad, since you are league admin., I would go with whatever you want to do.

Not so much a bug then as it is bad logic programmed in I guess.

I just spent all off season building up a team with potential, but if it's going to cause problems. I'll just take on that team. It's really not that bad off. Good QB, great RB, manageable WRs and OL. The secondary is a dumpster fire, but 0.4.3 turns all secondaries into a dumpster fire eventually.

I'm all for letting things ride out. It'll get straightened out down he road. May take some time, but balance will return. But if you choose another way, that's cool too.

I have an idea.

I enjoy a challenge, and have no real attachment to the Phantoms, (as I do with my other MFL teams), other than the time I've put into them.

If there's a way to do it without a waiting period, I'll take the Diamonds, as they are right now, just to challenge myself.

Anyone who would like to take the Diamonds, I have no problem, I agree that they are not that bad off, and the roster can be both improved and repaired as far as the cap problem goes. Im going to let it ride, the key player loss was not that bad, both players are in later years, and now Im much more aware of what caused it, will keep a closer eye on the open teams when it comes to off season considerations/rosters. cheers

Sounds good, Gdad. Glad to have you on top of things like this. Thanks. For the now and in the future.

Thanks Coot, am sending out invites to pick up an open team, we have 6 of them which is way too many, so if any of the existing owners has someone they would like to see take a team, send them an invite or pm me, post here, and I will send them the invitation. Playing vs AI teams is no fun IMO, and it hurts a league, like we just experienced when there are AI run teams.

Just a side note, as I thought, when I looked over the Diamonds roster I could see right away that the AI made some bad decisions personnel-wise. There is a ton of "fat" in their roster that can be cut and free up $20 million or more in salary cap. This team can become competitive in a very short time-frame with the right approach and roster management. In the invitations, Im offering a full roster review with suggested changes that the new owner can use to compare with their own assessment, so there is an incentive, especially for newer owners still trying to figure the game out. There are now 2 teams left, the Crush and the Diamonds.