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Old 01-22-2014, 11:13 PM   #36
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and Joe, I was trying to be civil but you seem to want to jump down my throat about "it's not the game, it's you" I have no problems with going in and giving certain players a no trade clause...I asked a specific question you posed. I am NOT expecting OOTP to do something like that.
I'm sorry if it appeared that I was jumping down your throat. I'm not being hostile, just maybe a little too direct.

As I see it, you want to play by reserve-clause rules but you don't want to play by OOTP's reserve-clause rules. That's going to be a problem, because you're playing OOTP's game. That being said, I agree with you that the rules need improvement, I'm just not sure if the improvements I'd make are the same improvements you'd make. And finally, I get the sense that you want OOTP's reserve-clause rules to emulate your version of what baseball under the reserve clause was like, but I'm not convinced that your version is more accurate than OOTP's.

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With what LGO said, and in my Greenberg scenario, why doesn't the team cut him, rather than send him to AAA? If a player not matter who, had 7 great years for you and was a league superstar, and you have better options, cut him or trade him rather than send him up and down to AAA for 3 years.
Probably because the AI is still primarily based on a free-agency model. That's something else that, ideally, OOTP would change.

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I wouldn't even mind if the team sends a player down for the rest of the season and cuts him afterwards, but to keep him and send him up and down when he is a Veteran, seems the AI should use the 'refuses to be demoted card' but that and waivers are not a part of the Reserve Clause it seems.
Waivers still apply. They're not really affected by the reserve clause.

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I've never seen a player claimed on waivers under reserve clause rules but maybe I'm doing something wrong on that end, even though I have expanded and secondary roster as 40 and waiver length at 5 days
I've seen it plenty of times. In fact, one of the problems with the AI, in my experience, is that it places too many players on waivers.
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