It was a boring week day afternoon when I was looking forward to the next offseason. Always looking of for new and better ways to track my team plans and progress. I got to see what looked like a nice spreadsheet to track my team with. I inquired about the spreadsheet hopping to map my plans for the future of the Oilers. What I did not know I was walking into a trap.
Its an exciting times for the Oilers. After sticking to the plan with a rebuild though development the team about ready to turn the corner. And now I had the perfect spreadsheet to plan my takeover of the west.
The team was sitting with just over $20,000,000 in cap space with only two spots to fill. In one the spots on the spreadsheet it said "Big FA $12,000,000". That was always the plan until the last few days. Things shifts gears with the plan to take advantage of the young players on good contracts. And bring in a player that would drive scoring and development for the team. After the plans change and the new spreadsheet said "Big FA $14,000,000". There was still a lot of money to go around.
The plan was to try to land one or two guys on good contracts.
The complete first day of FA was lost to work. Very happy to land the number one player on my list but wanted to know what happened with the rest of the list.
The first thing I looked at to how my bids went.
Paul Byron - Oilers (Cap space: $421,991) offered 6 season(s) @ $2,200,000 per season - Offer invalid - Not enough cap room -> Bid Should have been #3 on the list.
Yegor Korshkov - Oilers (Cap space: $421,991) offered 6 season(s) @ $3,850,000 per season - Offer invalid - Not enough cap room -> Bid Should have been #3 on the list.
WTFFFFFFFFFFFF This can’t be right I have a spreadsheet. The first thing I did was go to the site and check the numbers. Hmmmm
Next I go to my roster page and add them up one by one. Crap
If you have not put it together yet the spreadsheet I got from a fellow GM does not add up all the numbers. And it does show all the numbers listed they are just wrong on the bottom.
I don’t believe there was ill intent but you have to check these things. They are old the get passed around so much who knows how old and glitchy it is.
If it was not for that extra $421,991 the offseason would have been lost.
That left me with $421,991. While still needing to put a second goalie on the roster. And add two fourth liners and a 13th forward.
Based on this Kyle Okposo has been traded. Sorry to anyone I may have trade teased. I was against the wall and needed to get some player to fill my roster.