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Originally Posted by DesertFox07
I'm fine with players taking time to get back to me, but in my 2007 solo league, they took a REALLY long time. I was simming in real time in that league, and after 4 weeks of offers and from 32 teams, no free agent had yet to sign. I simmed forward 30 more days to get things going and only 2 of a possible 150 FAs had signed. Granted, there were a lot of offers for the top players out there, but still. 2 signings in 60 days?
I would suggest one thing to Markus on contract offers next time too. While smaller market/budget teams CAN pursue top name free agents, it's more realistic that they'd pursue second or third tier players who they can more readily afford to sign. I found this off-season three rebuilding teams were in hot pursuit of several of the top 5 free agents who were asking $20MM+ when they really needed to be focusing on their younger players and stop gap FAs.
And one thing that appears to be missing from OOTP 6.x is free agents refusing to sign with losing teams. I have to double check my FAs "desire for winner". but I've not seen anyone turn away an offer from a last place team yet unlike OOTP 6 Where numerous players refused to talk to me when I took over a failing small market team.
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I agree with everything here.
I'm especially keen on seeing some resolution to the signing strategies of small market and rebuilding teams. I see very little strategy difference between Win Now teams and Rebuild teams. It makes me wonder if that drop-down does anything. And too often the small market teams shoot themselves in the foot by signing a 32-year-old superstar to a long-term deal. That really doesn't happen much in real life.