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Originally Posted by Curtis
If they're the most ridiculous examples, then they're outliers. I think that's a pretty good definition of an outlier.
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Outlier suggests there are only a few examples out of many many cases. I was trying to make it clear that there are many, many examples and that I was only listing the most extreme ones. No, not every player is overpaid by 2000%, but there are plenty of examples of overpaid players.
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Originally Posted by Curtis
I realize this is only one guy, but allow me to acquaint you with Eddie Kranepool. For several seasons the only reason Eddie wasn't either cut or traded for a lefthanded batgirl to work the third base line was because he was 'an original Met'. Late in his career he became actually useful, and his last four seasons he put on the most sustained performance of superb pinch hitting of which I am aware, but for two thirds of his tenure he was a classic AAAA player.
On the other side of the coin we have Willie Mays, who deteriorated badly his last three seasons, though he continued to make the All Star team every year (the best argument I know for not letting the fans select). Many 'future Hall of Famers' collapse in their last couple of seasons, but if they were playing in an OotP Baseball game I'd expect them to have very high free agent demands and probably bidding wars over them.
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This goes back to what I posted earlier about it not being smart for OOTP to emulate broken or nonsensical systems. Should an aging hall-of-famer be extremely popular? Sure, you can argue that case. Should the game automatically set his "demand" at some absurd number? No.
If an extremely popular player was asking for, say, a 600k contract due to the fact that he's 41 and put up a .675 OPS last year, there would still be room for teams that were interested in him for his popularity to incite a bidding war amongst themselves. But having the game automatically set his value just because he's popular undercuts that aspect of what should be a free market system.