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Originally Posted by skoormit
I appreciate the advice, and I will probably abide by that house rule for the time being.
To be honest, I find it frustrating that the AI is so poor at trade valuation that we need to operate under house rules just to have a playable experience.
I know that it is very hard (or near impossible) to make an AI that is absolutely unexploitable by humans. But the AI trade reactions that I see fail to exhibit even elementary valuation rules.
Unless I'm missing something. Which is why I'm here asking.
To recap the situation:
AI will not give me $1 for Curtis Terry. Won't even discuss the idea. This indicates that the AI values Curtis Terry at either $0 or some negative amount. (While I find it hard to believe that he's not worth $1, I can accept that perhaps my scout thinks more highly of him than all the other team's scouts, and all the other teams think more highly of all of their own 1B/3B prospects than they think of Mr. Terry, and therefore no one wants Mr. Terry taking up valuable playing time.)
AI will give me Yoervis Medina and $2.75M in cash for Curtis Terry. This could only make sense (alongside the zero-or-negative value of Terry) if the AI places a value of $2.75M or more on getting rid of Medina. But Medina has a 1-year contract for $1.92M. If the AI values getting rid of him at $2.75M or more, they are better off by just releasing him outright than by trading him to me along with this much cash.
Can anyone provide a cogent explanation for the above scenario?
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Yes. Money & contracts are valued in a very complex way in trades, and also when the trade difficulty setting comes into play, the AI may not accept contracts that would seemingly make sense somewhat for them, this is to prevent making ripoffs harder.
In your case, I'd have to look at the league files, but something causes the AI to value the contract it loses (not only current year, but also arbitration estimates) pretty high because they likely have a proper replacement for the role lost in the bullpen.