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Originally posted by Maple Leafs
Excellent thread. Here's a few comments, many of which fall into the "me-too" category since they've already been raised.
1. OOTP desperately needs for teams to recognize whether they're in the race or not. Things like long-term strategies and GM personalities would be nice, but they're not must-haves. However, teams that are contending should not be trading stars for prospects, period. This is the #1 problem with the trade AI right now.
OOTP clearly has some mechanism in place to determine if a team is a contender, because it affects fan interest. Maybe this could be factored into the trade AI?
2. Like most of you, I'm seeing the "five-star prospect for one-star scrub" deals on the table. My hunch is that this is not new to OOTP 5.1, but rather that we're only noticing it now that we can see every player the AI would consider taking in a deal. It seems as if the AI algorithm has some sort of built-in "margin of error" to allow for the occasional lopsided deal, and this is showing up every now and then.
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Two quick reponses:
1. Please think this through all the way. How is the AI going to evaluate it's current situation? Is the AI going to be good enough to recognize whether it's a contender or a rebuilder? In real life, many team fail to recognize where they are in the "success cycle" (think NY Mets) and insist on acting like contenders when they should be rebuilding. This is being discussed in a little more detail
here but needs to be remembered. REAL LIFE GMS SCREW UP all the time while evaluating thier own teams and their chances of contending. I don't know if it's realistic to expect Markus to program an AI that thinks more intelligently than Steve Phillips or Dave Littlefield do (or maybe not ;-)
EDIT: When these AI GMs screw up their self-evaluation and make trades that are inappropriate for their team's current position, arent' we right back where we started? With teams making trades that make no sense for them and their situation? Such mistakes are realistic, so how do we address that?
2. I wish people would stop talking about stars. The star rating assigned by the game are wrong all the time. There can be so much difference between two three-star players. Please remember this when evaluating trades.
Thanks,
Gordy