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Originally posted by Johnny Slick
Why not? Real life GMs do it all the time (think: Bret Boone's 3-year $36M deal last offseason, or for that matter Sammy Sosa's mega-deal in the mid-90s, before he'd shown definitively that he was, in fact, a superstar and not the scrub he was in Texas). One of the challenges of a game like this *should* be to decide whether or not the guy who just went from average to MVP is really as good as he looked.
but I do like the idea that if a player has a poor season in his free agency year, he shouldnt get superstar money. A nice balance between statistical output from the player (based over the past year and past several years to avoid the one year wonders), mixed in with player potential (younger players who should be expected to contribute more) is good for the contract extentions/negotiations, etc.
Well... I wouldn't want too much to be read into the past 3 seasons either. I mean, a guy who hit .300/.400/.500 5 years ago but who has slumped to a .240/.320/.400 level the last 3 years probably isn't going to be expecting a megadeal.
Anyway, the "based on stats" thing is great news; once it gets implemented into manager AI, it will allow teams to replace players midseason, even if their slump is the result of nothing more than bad luck. I don't think any manager in baseball would stick with a first baseman who's giving them .170/.260/.330 for a whole season, no matter how good his scouts say he is.
John Craven
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I was mainly generalizing. I even mentioned in an earlier post Mo vaughn's name as he is someone very overpaid... People get overpaid for all kinds of reasons.. I was just generalizing that a person with one great year even if a MVP year that year, shouldnt suddenly get paid the most in baseball ie: A-rod money.
I was simply trying to say the ideal system would be one that took a look at stats both one year, three year, career wise, and then combined it with other factors such as potential, position, supply & demand, etc.
I have no idea how to program it to do this since I am a network architect, so I am looking forward to seeing the changes Marcus makes. I just dont like it the way it is currently is all