Getting wrong player in draft

[shoop]

Our 70s league draft ran last night and a team that wanted a $750,000 backup outfielder didn't get him as he went to another team.

According to the rules he should have received a player at the same postion with the same or lower salary.

Instead he got a player with a cost of about $600,000 more than the original player he tried to draft.

Not really a complaint, but this is a queston on how it happened and has anyone seen it before.

Thanks

[Great Unwashed]

I've seen it happen a few times. If there are no more .75 players at that position then the program chooses the next lowest priced player, even if it puts cash available into the negative.

[worrierking]

This has happened several times in the 70s set. There aren't enough .75 outfielders to go around. One team I was facing was several million dollars over the 80 mil cap because of it.