*How Players are Paid

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Just as a note, Baltimore's overpayed rookies were a result from players leaving in FA the season prior to the rookies being called up where the new sim required more in some spaces than the old sim. Not trying to excuse my mismanagement, but that we weren't outright trying to overpay rookies at all which seems to be the rumor based on how it's explained here.

I'm not sure I totally understand what you mean here. I'm really not sure how players leaving in FA the season prior forced you to sign all your rookies to $4m contracts? As far as I'm aware that's simply not a thing but I could be wrong.

We has them on $4mil DSFL contracts which is strictly for letting players remain call downs. When we had players jump into FA that we didn’t expect or that things didn’t pan out with another deal, we had to call up those DSFL players. Can’t restructure that $4mil DSFL contract so instead you end up paying $4mil for a player out of pocket instead of the DSFL covering it.

I'm pretty sure y'all gravely misunderstood something, then. Plenty of other teams sign rookies to 1-2 mil contracts after the draft and those players are still paid $4m/season when sent down...The only way a send down doesn't get paid the $4m in the DSFL is if they are called up midseason, in which case they get the salary they are under contract for from their ISFL team. Baltimore could have signed those rookies to ISFL minimum and avoided some of the headache.