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Originally Posted by RchW
Maybe so but the QO/FA module is not realistic. Not one pending FA has taken a QO in three offseasons IRL. Players in game obviously don't value FA like RL players do. AI teams offer QO to players in the $10M range which would never happen IRL. This has a cascading effect on team budgets and FA competition.
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And I agree with that sentiment.
AI teams should only offer QO to players that "should" decline it (want a contract over the QO amount or want a multi year deal with an AAV "close" to it - like Cuddyer this year).
Players should decline QO for the same circumstances that the teams offer it (want a contract over the QO amount or want a multi year deal with an AAV "close" to it).
In effect this would prevent players from accepting AI team offers, AI teams would only offer it to players that would decline it, and it would keep human teams honest so that if they do offer it to scrub FA's, the scrubs would accept it and burn them. And it would mirror real life!
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