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JeffR · 06-14-2022, 02:48 PM

Got it, thanks. Very odd. All but one the post-deadline trades are player-for-pick, which could theoretically be a cap-compliance move in extreme circumstances like Adam mentioned. But I don't see any indication that any of the teams had a cap problem on that date, or anything (like a player returning from the injured list) that might have caused one, so that can't be it.

They do all seem to be a similar type of trade - a 2-3 star player on one of the lower lines for a draft pick, or, in one case, a player of similar ability. That would see to indicate one particular AI trade strategy is ignoring the deadline, but the system doesn't work that way - the AI routine that decides on what type of trade to attempt just doesn't operate after the deadline happens. It can't call for any type of trade after that point, so there's no real way for a single kind of deal to get around that restriction.

I'm wondering if there might be some sort of delay with trade execution happening somehow, where the deals are being made before the deadline but not being completed until days or weeks later for some reason. We'll have to do some further investigating to figure out exactly what's going on here, but that's probably the first thing we'll need to check.

06-14-2022, 02:48 PM	#12
JeffR FHM Producer Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Kelowna, BC Posts: 17,267	Got it, thanks. Very odd. All but one the post-deadline trades are player-for-pick, which could theoretically be a cap-compliance move in extreme circumstances like Adam mentioned. But I don't see any indication that any of the teams had a cap problem on that date, or anything (like a player returning from the injured list) that might have caused one, so that can't be it. They do all seem to be a similar type of trade - a 2-3 star player on one of the lower lines for a draft pick, or, in one case, a player of similar ability. That would see to indicate one particular AI trade strategy is ignoring the deadline, but the system doesn't work that way - the AI routine that decides on what type of trade to attempt just doesn't operate after the deadline happens. It can't call for any type of trade after that point, so there's no real way for a single kind of deal to get around that restriction. I'm wondering if there might be some sort of delay with trade execution happening somehow, where the deals are being made before the deadline but not being completed until days or weeks later for some reason. We'll have to do some further investigating to figure out exactly what's going on here, but that's probably the first thing we'll need to check.