[JimSpriggs]

Yes that all makes sense and is very acceptable and seems to be what is happening, you want the AI to make moves and once the game world starts it has to do its own thing and that a pretty complex thing.

I guess my concern is after all the chaos is over will the AI quit extending players and then trading them in no time and by no time i mean before the extension has even come into force.

Even on trading frequency "almost never", the AI extends McCluthen for two years at pittsburgh and then promptly trades him away in the offseason.

"almost never" - that's not chaotic and it still does things like this.

It's not the extending logic, it's not the trading logic, it's when the two meet.

Just my reflections, it's never going to be perfect but this extending and then trading thing bugs me a bit, but as you say lets see if it's an ongoing thing 3+ years later.