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Seeing this every season in a reproducible manner. Typically it goes like this (standard fictional league):
- Top relievers demand $14M+
- No computer team makes an offer
- During spring training, all unsigned relievers have dropped their demand to less than half
- Now the AI teams will start to offer 1-year contracts
- Some time near the end of spring, or even during the first two weeks of the seasons all relievers have signed one-year contracts
Multi-year contracts for relievers have been very rare because of that. Also, I've seen a lot of them hold out until the season had already started, signing for less than half of their original demand.
It seems that the gap between the self-evaluation of the relievers and the way the AI teams see them simply is too big. If AI teams are only willing to pay $6-9M max per year to relievers, it doesn't help if they want twice the amount every time.
So I agree that this could use some tweaking in a future patch.
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