EHM The Blue Line

Hi fellow EHMers,

I'm currently playing EHM version 3.04 and am in the 2032/2033 season and my team is the Oilers.

My budget is at $43,200,000
Cap is at $44,000,000
Avg club salary $43,900,000
Total annual player salaries $49,450,000

I've been over budget and over the cap and obviously just waive or trade players to get 'under'. I've never had issues signing my prospects prior to their rights expiring.

I've been trying to sign some of my top prospects where the default is $925,000 for a 3 year entry level contract. I lower it and try to sign the prospect and they accept but then the board gives the following message....

"The Edmonton Oiler's board will not let you go ahead with this transfer as they think it is unrealistic."

The transfer is then cancelled as a result. I can't trade in May as I'm in the Playoff Conference Finals. Only thing I can think of is to throw game 7 and then perhaps I can do some trades, etc to enable me to sign the prospect.

I've tried numerous searches of the forum but can't seem to find a solution.

Any suggestions or ideas on how to resolve this would be great.

Thanks!!!

First, you are not over the cap, but you're close. The Avg Club Salary is your cap hit so you have $100,000 in cap space left. You are over budget by a bit though.

What this message is telling you is that your board is saying no tot he contract due to the budget thing.

Couple of questions:
1) do you call up farm hands during the playoffs even though they do not play?

2) Are you trying to sign these prospects now because you want them to play in the playoffs or because you are concerned about losing their rights if you don't get them signed?

You need more cap space. Look at your roster and choose a player with a salary of about 900.000. Put him on waivers and send him down to your farm team if no one claims him. You'll have enough cap space then to sign the prospect.

Hypnotist wrote:First, you are not over the cap, but you're close. The Avg Club Salary is your cap hit so you have $100,000 in cap space left. You are over budget by a bit though.

What this message is telling you is that your board is saying no tot he contract due to the budget thing.

Couple of questions:
1) do you call up farm hands during the playoffs even though they do not play?

2) Are you trying to sign these prospects now because you want them to play in the playoffs or because you are concerned about losing their rights if you don't get them signed?

1) No. I thought that the cap doesn't apply during the playoffs. It's been awhile since I've last played as I was stuck on this thread's topic. Kept losing their rights and lost my bid for the prospects once other teams could make offers


2) I am concerned about losing their rights

Thanks for the help

Thanks!

mxmizuno88 wrote:1) No. I thought that the cap doesn't apply during the playoffs. It's been awhile since I've last played as I was stuck on this thread's topic. Kept losing their rights and lost my bid for the prospects once other teams could make offers


2) I am concerned about losing their rights

Thanks for the help

Thanks!

I don't think the cap applies during the playoffs either (don't know for certain as I don't recall ever being over the cap). The message you are getting, I believe, is your board rejecting the contract due to being over budget & not close to the cap. So waiving players won't do you a lot of good as it won't lower your payroll, just your cap hit. If you have a couple of players on 2-way contracts playing with the big club, you could send them down, which would lower your payroll hit on those contracts by 85% Could be wrong there, but when I've run teams with poor finances I get this a lot.

I also checked and throwing the game to get out of the playoffs won't do you any good either as the no-trade period doesn't end until June 7th and you likely will lose the rights on June 1.

Other than that I can't help much. Sorry.

The board is exerting their authority over you and your job. You will need to shed salary to be able to accommodate the new salary you are planning on taking on.