[injury log]

A few points here:

* in my solo leagues, my compensation round in the draft is typically 50 picks long in a 30 team league, so there clearly is no shortage of comp-eligible FAs;

* since Type A/B designations are only known with certainty at the end of the season (not only because the player's stats matter, but because he's ranked against other players, so their stats matter too), I don't know how the game could tell you midseason with any certainty what comp status to expect. If you look at a guy's performance and ratings, you can take a reasonable guess, however;

* while I'd like the game to be perfectly accurate as Type A/B free agents go, right now there's a problem: too few players accept arbitration offers, and too many players are offered arbitration. This leads to far too many picks in the supp-1st round. The optimal solution would be to fix that - for players to accept arbitration often enough that you need to think twice about making the offer. But as a compromise solution, so that the supp-1st round isn't 80 picks long, I'm happy if slightly less than 40% of players get comp tags;

* in OOTP11 a ton of bad relievers got Type A designations. In real life, most Type A relievers would accept an arbitration offer unless they were star pitchers, since few teams would consider surrendering a draft pick to sign them (the difficulty Juan Cruz had securing a contract comes to mind, as does Rafael Soriano accepting an arbitration offer from the Braves). Not so in OOTP - these guys will refuse arbitration and just go straight to free agency. So if the game were fixed - if enough RPs got Type A tags, but equally enough RPs accepted arb offers - then using your strategy of accumulating Type A FAs, you'll just end up with a lot of overpaid bullpen arms. They'll just accept your arbitration offer instead of declaring free agency. So from your team-building point of view, you probably should be happier if those RPs are Type B, not Type A.