The AI needs to:
1. Be adjusted so as to appear more patient before promoting and demoting. The AI currently reacts too quickly according to ratings and changes in those ratings.
2. Consider a team's place in the standings
and the league date when making trade offers.
3. Know when a team has clinched and manage accordingly...especially the pitching staff in preparation for the post-season.
4. ALWAYS throw home when a potential winning run is attempting to score in the bottom of the 9th
5. Simulate degrees of loyalty when it comes to roster, rotation and lineup decisions. The AI currently will consistently replace a longtime(I don't mean aging), established veteran in the starting lineup with a player who may be slightly better rated at the drop of a dime, even though the established player's stats haven't proven the decline yet.
There are more but most everything has already been mentioned in the 6 pages so far. I sincerely hope Markus spends some time reading this thread as it begins to grow over the next several days. It already is shockingly big and it's been only a day since he opened it.
