hockeyfreak6000 can confirm whether he allowed this.
i don't recall this being allowed because it results in a lower annual contract value after the fact. that approach would essentially allow the winning team to modify their final bid.
I know in my other leagues (World Cup & Red Line) you can up the years or whatever to make it cheaper.
But it should be in the rules that you can do that.
I think that's why in this league we see a lot of players jump from say a 2m bid straight to a 4.5m bid (1.5m 3 yrs), or in the same token, from say a 10m bid right up to a 22m bid. Or at the higher end, someone bids up to 40m right away to get the 5 year contract.
Even though other leagues allow bids to be upped to the next salary level, if this league doesn't, it makes complete sense not to.
If you're going to bid 18m (6m per year) on a 21 year old player, why not bid 22m instead and get him for cheaper (5.5m per) for an extra year?
It's the same thing as bidding on a guy for 4m ... You would assume you want him 2 years at 2m per year.
If you want him that bad, why wouldn't you just bid 4.5m and get him for 1.5m per year instead, for 3 years??
I don't think it's really a secret anymore of the bid amounts to get to the next price range, as I see them getting bumped to that all the time...
4.5m bid, 22m bid and then the less-often 40m bid that all bump up the price to the next price range of years of the contract.
I always thought.... If you want the guy for 'cheaper' make the appropriate bid to get it to the next price level. Especially if he's only 21 years old.
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