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Originally Posted by NoOne
position strength weakness of prospects / mlb players and the different scouting results of each team are probably the biggest factors. their mode may cause a preference for prospects vs. vets... plus your own choices of settings augment all of this further.
so, there's alot of moving parts. it's impossible to tell you the best way to create value. you'll have to look at each team's situation. a really good talent can trump 'need' on occasion. always test the waters... use different packages exploiting needs.
as far as shop player, i use that only to save myself the work of finding a suitable trade partner. i figure this shows me which team's scouts think highly of the player as well as a need on their team. don't expect it to be perfect.. this is just somethign that's fast and messy.
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But I tend to notice this as well when I ask for Player X (even if I don't have an obvious need for Player X), and offer Player Y (even if it don't look like the other team really needs to have Player Y). I also notice even when I get a proposal from a team like the White Sox (for example), they'll offer me someone who I could find a fit for somewhere in my organization, and who they ask for back tends to be reasonable for who they offer. If they offer me someone like Avasail Garcia, they'll ask me for Garin Cecchini and Andy Wilkins back. If they ask for someone like Jorge Lopez, they offer me a Carson Fullmer or Tim Anderson back. I may not personally make
those trades, but I can usually find something else we can work on if I feel a trade is something I'm looking to do. While it may not be exactly those players in an offer, you get the idea of the types of offers I get from a team like the White Sox.
On the other hand, if I get a proposal from someone like Tampa Bay, they want something like Lucroy and Isan Diaz , or Keon Broxton AND Orlando Arcia or Brett Phillips, and they're nice enough to offer me back Logan Morrison.
Again, it's not necessarily always these players involved in the offer, but you get the idea of the types of offers I receive from the Rays.
I don't know if this is just a quirk with the settings I'm trying out during the game, or if there is something programmed in where some teams will just have better success with more reasonable trade offers with some teams, and others just don't happen. Either way, I like that this happens, because I'm sure every GM in real life has other GMs and teams they enjoy working with, and others who they just don't often see eye-to-eye with. I think it adds some unexpected realism to a game that already offered more realism than any one of us could have even imagined was possible before we first played. If it was unintentional/accidental, who cares? I like it.
