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i have draft pick trading on. baseball is like a grumpy old man that refuses to change even in the face of inctrovertable fact. every modern american professional league allows pick trading. they are allowed to trade compensatory picks or something now, anyway.
there is a point where you cannot trade five picks and move up 1 round. so, those later picks i try to package with prospects that i will never use in order to trade up. by the teens, you can trade five picks and move up a couple rounds. i will trade my low 1 with 3(if extra),4(any),5, etc.. and see how high i can get.
rounds 1-3 maybe 1-5 i value a bit more. the rest is a like winning a lottery, and please remember that the lotter is a tax on the poor.
someone did a run down on likelihood of players developing based on rounds etc... had to do with the talent change randomness setting. find that thread and you can see where a draft pick becomes worthless in comparison to what you can trade it for.
my goal is to add 3-5 prospects that have a real chance of making the majors from the get go. if there is really good talent, i will try to get 2 first round picks and forget the rest.
with the tigers i can max scouting and development, pay for good to great minor league coaches (always controlling), and maintain a 150million dollar payroll. it's more fun to maintain than to build, because it's tougher. it really forces you to understand the value of various options/strategies. you find one of many strategies that work, but you don't force a strategy down the game's throat.
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