[Honorable_Pawn]

Originally Posted by voxpoptart

I'm a lot less bothered than many OOTP players by the game's trading AI. I understand how hard it is to program, and I'm quite aggressive about using Commissioner Mode to undo awful trades when I see them happening. But I would say, from that experience, that about 80% of the terrible trades wouldn't happen if these three changes could be programmed in.

1) Teams should remember who they have on the DL. Which I seriously don't think they account for, not competently. Too often I see them trade real value, in the offseason, for a player who deserves to be a regular and *as of January* slots into their lineup, but who will obviously be back on the bench, and wasted, by March.

2) Teams should almost never trade prospects for very marginal/ questionable upgrades (except when in the thick of pennant races). In other words, sure, it's nice to have a 1.5 star batter replace one half of your platoon of 1 star players. But real life teams don't normally deal away a couple of 2nd-round draft picks to do it -- especially not if that 1.5 star batter batted .197 last year. Trade those prospects for a 2.5 star player? Maybe. In OOTP I see a lot of multi-prospect trades for the 1.5 star guy.

3) I'm willing to use Force Trade to undo a trade if I hate it enough, but I prefer not to -- if neither side is interested in taking it back, sometimes I'll decide it's a more believable deal than it seems. But more than half the time, when I'm trying to reverse a trade, one or the other GM will look at the same trade they just made, except offered right back to them in reverse, and say "Yes". I'm not kidding: this is common. So as a basic check: if possible, give the computer the ability to automatically test the same trade backwards. And reject it if it would accept the deal reversed.

I hope these ideas make sense and can help.

Love your bullet points.

I think you are right that the AI "forgets" who is on the DL.