[Padreman]

Originally Posted by joefromchicago

Yeah, that sounds about right. It's a combination of three independent factors:

(1) the player won't retire if he's within sight of a major milestone;
(2) the AI won't play a player if there's somebody better on the roster; and
(3) the AI won't trade or release a popular player if it will upset the fans.

Individually, each of these factors is reasonable, and it's a credit to the OOTP development team that the game models reality in these situations. The problem is when all three of them coincide with the same player. Then you have the situation where an aging superstar sits on the bench for two or three years, never playing, never retiring, and never being traded.

Sounds like logical to me but can we confirm this with Markus?