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md40022 · 05-16-2023, 11:37 AM

I did my best to pay pretty close attention to this during the 1st season of my sim and while I don't think the logic of the individual trades was awful, it did seem that teams were trading just for the sake of trading. No rhyme or reason at all.

You'd see the same team trades prospects for a veteran, leading you to believe they were in "win now" mode, but then 24 hours later that trade a veteran for some prospects as you'd do in a rebuild. And this same team would do this over and over again as the trade deadline approached.

There definitely seemed to be WAYYYYYYYYYY more trades in year 1 of my OOTP24 sim than I have ever seen in any version of the game ever before. Given all of the trade changes made in this year's game, it seems pretty clear that was the new feature that kind of got beaten to death and definitely needs some tweaking for next year. That said, I didn't really see bad trades when evaluation each trade individually, but it seemed like none of the teams had any idea what direction they were going in. Making a rebuild trade Monday only to make a "win now" trade Tuesday and this would repeat over and over and over again. If this was an IRL thing, you'd think your team's GM was on drugs.

IMO the number of trades probably could be cut in half easily and the purpose behind trades definitely needs some adjustment too (ie. how teams should operate when in "win now" vs. "rebuild")

05-16-2023, 11:37 AM	#190
md40022 All Star Reserve Join Date: Mar 2018 Posts: 740 Infractions: 0/1 (1)	I did my best to pay pretty close attention to this during the 1st season of my sim and while I don't think the logic of the individual trades was awful, it did seem that teams were trading just for the sake of trading. No rhyme or reason at all. You'd see the same team trades prospects for a veteran, leading you to believe they were in "win now" mode, but then 24 hours later that trade a veteran for some prospects as you'd do in a rebuild. And this same team would do this over and over again as the trade deadline approached. There definitely seemed to be WAYYYYYYYYYY more trades in year 1 of my OOTP24 sim than I have ever seen in any version of the game ever before. Given all of the trade changes made in this year's game, it seems pretty clear that was the new feature that kind of got beaten to death and definitely needs some tweaking for next year. That said, I didn't really see bad trades when evaluation each trade individually, but it seemed like none of the teams had any idea what direction they were going in. Making a rebuild trade Monday only to make a "win now" trade Tuesday and this would repeat over and over and over again. If this was an IRL thing, you'd think your team's GM was on drugs. IMO the number of trades probably could be cut in half easily and the purpose behind trades definitely needs some adjustment too (ie. how teams should operate when in "win now" vs. "rebuild")