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Cinnamon J. Scudworth · 04-05-2017, 10:15 AM

Sometimes you will see a flurry of trades early in the standard MLB game because AI GMs just look at their teams as a collection of numbers, not as something that was the result of their work over the offseason. The teams as constructed by their real life counterparts are not necessarily "optimized" from their point of view.

The most glaring example of this was in OOTP 13, in which the AI would almost always very quickly trade Prince Fielder away from the Tigers, even though Detroit had just signed him to a 9 year deal that offseason. This was because the AI, when constructing its ideal Detroit depth chart, viewed him as simply an overpaid backup to Miguel Cabrera. Given that in real life Fielder only stuck with the Tigers through 2013, this looks like a shrewd move by the AI in retrospect, but it certainly felt weird at the time.

As Mr. Marlin notes above, you can disable trading entirely. I sometimes do this in the standard MLB game through the All Star break in the first year, just to give players some history that might better justify AI trades.

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Cinnamon J. Scudworth All Star Starter Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Washington, DC Posts: 1,119	Sometimes you will see a flurry of trades early in the standard MLB game because AI GMs just look at their teams as a collection of numbers, not as something that was the result of their work over the offseason. The teams as constructed by their real life counterparts are not necessarily "optimized" from their point of view. The most glaring example of this was in OOTP 13, in which the AI would almost always very quickly trade Prince Fielder away from the Tigers, even though Detroit had just signed him to a 9 year deal that offseason. This was because the AI, when constructing its ideal Detroit depth chart, viewed him as simply an overpaid backup to Miguel Cabrera. Given that in real life Fielder only stuck with the Tigers through 2013, this looks like a shrewd move by the AI in retrospect, but it certainly felt weird at the time. As Mr. Marlin notes above, you can disable trading entirely. I sometimes do this in the standard MLB game through the All Star break in the first year, just to give players some history that might better justify AI trades. __________________ "Sometimes, this is like going to a grocery store. You’ve got a list until you get to the check-out stand. And then you start reading People magazine, and all this other [stuff] ends up in the basket." -Sandy Alderson on the MLB offseason Last edited by Cinnamon J. Scudworth; 04-05-2017 at 10:34 AM.