Rookies

[Tigerman]

Are rookies signed for 3 or 4 year contracts? It seems like a last round pick gets a one year contract automatically.

[brooks_piggott]

Round 1 gets more years... as you go further into the draft they get shorter contracts. Since the majority of 7th round picks rarely make rosters we only do 1 year contracts to make them easier to cut.

[Tigerman]

Round 1 gets more years... as you go further into the draft they get shorter contracts. Since the majority of 7th round picks rarely make rosters we only do 1 year contracts to make them easier to cut.

Okay... but I have 4th and sometimes 3rd round picks getting 1 year contracts.

[brooks_piggott]

7th rounders are all 1 year deals, 6th rounders have a small percentage of being 2 years, 5th rounders have a larger percent of being 2 years, 4th rounders are 1-3 years, and 2/3 rounders are 2-4 years. 1st rounders get 3-6 year deals.

[Tigerman]

Ok thanks. I usually play in sandbox so I can change them to whatever I want.

[backinpoint]

This feels like a place where realism might better serve the goal. It is very frustrating to me to get a good player in the 6th round (often a line man that I hope to grow), try to resign them in their first year-but because they went up 10 or 12 points in training camp-instead of having a 6th round player deal they are demanding 1.5 million for years with no negotiations. The NFL rookie deals are bad for labor, and as a union supporter I would like to see them be more injury protective, but for a simulator to not have that rookie deal lock in at a cheap price changes the value of draft picks dramatically.