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I have found this as well. I have had my team focus on neutral consistently, but have noticed that when shopping a player, regardless if he's on my active, 40 man, or in the minors, the AI will largely offer 40 man roster players in exchange. I can't say with certainty that the AI ONLY offers 40 man players, but there seems to be a built in bias towards the AI dumping 40 man players instead of prospects.
So here's my $.50 theory: Your team's focus affects what kind of trade the AI initiates, right? If you're in "win now", the AI will offer players with ML contracts who are on active or 40 man rosters, etc. I would then assume that if your focus is "rebuilding", the AI trade logic initiates trades with players that could help in the future? "Neutral" then obviously should remove this bias.
But when shopping one of my players, I look for my trade partner's team focus, as well as their OSA team needs to try to improve the liklihood that both I and the AI team get what they want. But I notice that the team focus doesn't appear to work inversely like when the AI offers a trade.
For example, I offer a veteran, moderately priced player to a team in "win now" who has a slight weakness at (a given) position, but the AI trade partner doesn't appear to reciprocate with kind of talent I'm after in exchange.
My only thought is that if I set my team focus to "rebuilding", the AI would be more amenable to trading prospects to help bolster my organization's future. Sounds great, but if I set my team focus to "rebuilding", does that affect my owner's budget, fan interest/loyalty, and current roster player's intangibles? In other words, is there a detrimental effect to trying to trick the AI?
Sorry if this is a little off track from the OP's direction, I just thought I'd throw out some possibilities to consider.
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