The programs internal evaluation of a player plays a large part in the amount of money a player asks for during extensions and FA. This means there is also a some what color bias in the program. I never payed Garret Blakeslee more that 12 mil a year for the past 11 seasons when he should have reasonably been making way more. Corstan was the same way (The reverse Ronny White). This is nice for the team with those players but can be another contribution to the problem and is some what the flip side of the argument right presented by Dave. Bobby Avocado is a star by all metrics, but if he offers an extension I have serious doubts that it will be anything close to the max. Again, this is another problem we can't fix due to the limitations of fbb3, but I think it highlights why trying a new rule could be a useful venture.