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I don't know if it is that the AI is misreading the market trading good players for, in this case, Gubicza and his expiring contract year... such much as the break in the logic is on the financial management and aging side.
If the other teams have those great players at high dollars or if the player is past age 34 or so, it seems the AI is built to devalue their performance and wired to move them and so can indeed be ripped off by a shrewd trade. The problem of the AI quickly making newly signed star FA available via trades is also, in my mind, related to how one side of the AI is built to sign that player only to have the other side of the AI's brain immediately say "Hey, I have an overpaid veteran, I need to dump him because I'll be over budget soon or they will be aging soon..." Either the signings need to align to the trade brain or vice versa but the disparity between outbidding me in the FA market in dollars and years and then trying to trade him a few months later is frustrating at times.
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