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Originally Posted by Mel Ott
Well, I wasn't sure whether you meant he should favor prospects, or the computer should. 
But I also noticed this:
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1) I rarely go for free agents over the age of 29, although I'll make an exception for a stud pitcher in his early 30s. If there is a hitter around the age of 26 who has already proven himself, I will spend whatever it takes to get him. My salaries tend to have a few guys at the top making a gazillion dollars and a bunch of guys making the minimum, or at least a reasonable sum thru arbitration. The result of all this is that I am rarely paying a lot of money for a crap player. I have crap players, but they aren't often expensive.
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...which is a pretty good strategy, actually, but you can see how the AI might have problems competing with a team that did this repeatedly and successfully. |
This is one area where I'm not concerned with making the game more difficult. Obviously I think it's a good strategy ... I think it's a good strategy in real life, and the sooner my favorite Giants get rid of that idiot Sabean and replace him with someone who agrees with me, the better off the team will be :-). But I understand there is more than one way to build a team. I prefer to leave those kinds of OOTP settings on neutral or average or whatever. In an ideal OOTP world, some teams would be like Sabean, some would go only for prospects, and the mix would make for an interesting game. Outside of that, I let average/neutral carry the day.