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Originally Posted by PSUColonel

I wish you had to just send offers without immediate feedback, I think it made negotiating a bit more difficult.

Making trading really, really inconvenient for users is not a good solution to trade AI problems. Many versions ago, OOTP forced you to submit every trade offer for AI consideration, and it was extremely annoying.

It is true that the AI attaches little value to players it has placed on the Trade Block. That's usually perfectly fine, because the AI is usually only putting players of negative value (players paid more than they're worth) on the Block. In those rare instances, though, when a good player ends up on the Block, he is sometimes too easy to acquire. I suspect turning the Morale system off would help, since then there will be fewer angry players demanding trades (the AI tends to put all those players on the block, though they're usually angry because they suck and are playing badly, so they aren't worth anything to begin with).

The problem as I see it is how the AI uses the Trade Block to begin with. So as far as this goes:

Originally Posted by RchW

No but I've already written several posts that players on the block should be easy to trade for. That is why they are on the block.

But that's not why they should be on the block. In real life, the 'trade block' is not full of guys no one wants. I mean, sure, someone like Alfonso Soriano was on the block last offseason, but so was Justin Upton.

Players end up on the block because their teams decide the return they can get in trade will be more useful than the player will be. Sometimes the value comes from simply offloading the player's salary, but more often the value comes from acquiring players more likely to be useful when the team is ready to contend, or from offloading surplus at one position to fill a need at another.

The one thing players on the real life block have in common is that their teams intend to trade them imminently, assuming they receive a worthwhile offer. That's how I think OOTP should work too, though the AI isn't really smart enough to use the trade block that way at the moment. AI teams should really have long-range plans, and should understand which players fit in those plans, and which don't, and therefore could be traded away for more useful guys. When an AI team identifies a player who would be better traded than kept, for whatever reason, that player should go on the block, and other AI teams should be 'bidding' on the player once that happens.

Originally Posted by PSUColonel

Colby is only making 2 million a year and is in the final year of his contract...they are willing to also give me 5 million, and the players I offered are absolute scrubs.

EDIT: De Fratus might have a little potential, but that's it.

You might look up the Ervin Santana trade from last offseason - if you ignore the finances it's basically the same type of deal (ostensibly mediocre veteran SP traded for a fringey relief prospect), except that De Fratus is miles better as a prospect than Brandon Sisk. It's really not that far off real life.