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Old 02-06-2009, 12:55 AM   #245
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Originally Posted by PSUColonel View Post
The AI is not aggressive with waiver wire or free agent transactions
I'll expand on this.

I claim a serviceable player from waivers but as RL GM's do I decided to trade for him to preclude other teams from getting first dibs. The team asks for any one of my four best players, no other offer was acceptable. Instead I waited and the player was mine for nothing.

This highlights two fundamental flaws:

  1. The trade AI should take a warm body, anything that's offered since the decision has already been made to put the player on waivers.
  2. No other team made a claim, my team is the best in the league. This player was useful at league minimum to any of the lower half of MLB.
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