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Originally Posted by Fyrestorm3
I think the solution (if they choose to fix it) should be to have the fan interest drop in full when the player hits Free Agency, and then don't bother with the extra coding that would make it drop more when he signs with another team - since the fan interest is directly tied to his popularity, if you eventually re-sign him, the fan interest will go right back up.
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As I recall, it used to be that fan interest would drop as you describe. I don't know when this was changed.
I don't have much of a problem with how it works right now. The issue, it seems, is that good free agents often wind up sitting out for months or an entire season, sometimes even after lowering their demands to minor league contracts. This happens frequently in my league, a small fictional league that started with 8 teams and subsequently expanded to 12. The number of unsigned free agents isn't very realistic. If this issue were fixed, the odd fan support behaviour the original poster describes wouldn't occur.