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Originally Posted by PSUColonel
I notice there is a lot of good staff in the pool, but the AI is never aggressive about going after talent. Why is this? It does it with players after all!
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Almost everything to do with staff is just so basic its borderline broken. Just the ability to not poach other staff members for promotions is a big deal.
If you are playing with a full a universe you can get some good staff members stuck in lower ranked leagues and you have to wait till contract expires in ever hoping to land them again.
I'm into a full universe OOTPb 21 and here are the only trainers available. They are awful. If you trainer retires you are most likely screwed. You have to hope their are good expiring contracts cause you can poach. And there might be a great trainer in an Indy league.
There are more scouts available and some are well above average. But at least you can also hire GM's as scouts. There is even a PC who has great listed for everything.
I guess the AI probably doesn't fire staff, eat contract and hire new better ones. There also isn't a list of expiring staff contracts like you can see with players.
At least the Indy leagues staff are only on 1 year deals.I think 2 leagues are all 2 year deals. And the Indy leagues will sign good staff members. So its first come first serve. However some leagues like Mexico staff are all completely awful. Even the Mexican league has a higher rep then most Indy leagues.
While look signed as a scouting director in this Spanish team
Other things are strange too. Checking out all the leagues I saw Japan and Korea with very very few USA staff while China had a lot. But it seems the smaller Int leagues and Indy leagues it's a free for all for all staff from any nation.
The longest contracts I have seen outside the MLB were only 3 year deals. And that was for some of the big leagues like Japan every other league seemed to be 1 or 2 max.
The human player doesn't even get notifications for staff hitting the market like it does free agent players. All the leagues have different off season free agency dates so you aren't exactly sure when the staff are hitting the open market unless you are extremely proactive. And during the heat of a long session I often forget.
I've been looking for a better trainer for 2 years and can't land one yet.