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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Okay...so how 'bout 2 years?
Can I extend him the year before he hits the market? At that point, why shouldn't I just give them all 2 year deals and next season, throw another 2 year deal the way of guys I really want to keep?
I feel like this can be gamed a little bit.
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You can't extend contracts. Once you assign a contract to someone, it ticks to zero. At that point they hit the open market. You can still keep them, but you have to beat their best offer. You have to want to keep a player more than the rest of the market, which means you'll be paying a premium on all your player. My feeling is that it will be okay to do that once in a while, but if you end up doing that on every player you won't have enough money to retain them all and you'll end up with a lot of second contracts that are too long for the expected life of the player.