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Originally Posted by Fyrestorm3
UPDATE: In two separate tests, using Commish mode to both edit players and offer contracts above budget limits, I had no problem signing a player to a team with great talent at his position.
Here's how I went about it: I set all teams to be controlled by myself, and edited one of those teams to have 4 superstar catchers (first test) or closers (second test), then edited another team to have a single mediocre player able to play that position. I acted as the team with the scrub and offered a star free agent catcher/closer an absurd amount of money, which would have made him the highest paid player in history. Then, acting as the stacked team, I offered the same guy the exact same contract, but upped the yearly salary by $1M.
In both cases, the guy took the money, barely even glancing at the other offer. Both teams had finished atop their division the year before (this is a league I keep around to run these kinds of tests, so it has a history), so it's not a matter of wanting to play for a winner. I did not promise a starting role in either contract. The league does not have the DH rule in effect. I'm fairly certain I eliminated pretty much every other variable by controlling all the teams myself, and it simply did not matter. The guy took the money, regardless of the fact that the team he was going to had 4 players at his position that were much better than him.
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Cool exercise, however, I am not going to discount the observation of TS as being casual and, therefore, without a basis.
We know player popularity has place of birth as a factor and "local boy" is a bit more popular (ok, I don't have the citation handy...smack me if I am wrong about this...but for now, play along, for fun). It would not be inconceivable that the bad teams that gained the desired FAs in the league TS is in had this factor come into play and your test did not take this into account. Perhaps switching the location of the team with the need at C or Cl to the player's town of birth will yield a different result.