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Originally Posted by Syd Thrift
IME if the player doesn’t want to sign with you, he’ll usually say so straight away. Are we sure this is that issue, because it sounds like a player just “forgets” about the first offer.
How long after your offers are these signings occurring? If they’re within a few days, I think the player just took the lower offer for whatever reason - playing closer to his home, maybe, he doesn’t see how he’d start for your team, etc. Maybe the game even invokes a little random chance on the end, even when the offer is not close (although if you’re talking about a modern league, $1.8M for one year is still relatively close to $900k for the same 1 year deal). I’d still like to see a better explanation when he sends you that email back saying he’s decided to sign elsewhere, although if random chance is involved that make things tough (“your offer was better but I decided to sign with the A’s anyway, sorry”).
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In this case the player just straight up never reacted. Can't remember for how long, maybe a week or 2. The offer remained on "pending" until the moment he signed elsewhere for half the money. I really think it was a glitch/bug.
Other times (i.e. a player rejecting millions only to sign a minor league deal a couple of days later) is just wonky AI.
fwiw I can't even begin to fathom how complicated it must be to have the AI preserve a balance with the logic in these signings while keeping it from being easily exploited by the human players.