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The only trade settings that I have tampered with are the brand new ones for OOTP24 that put a timer on around the trade deadline. I don't know the specifics of that feature since I didn't like it and turned it off right away, but other than that all my trade settings are on defaults.

I do agree that there were way too many trades early on. The aggravating part was teams seemed to be trading just for the sake of trading. A given team would trade prospects for an established player on Monday, leading you to believe they were in "win now" mode only to trade away another established player to acquire prospects on Tuesday like it was a rebuilding trade. It seemed like teams had no objectives or goals in regards to building for the future vs. trying to win in present day.

That said, a lot of people on here felt this could be the case early in the game because the AI is trying to re-work the individual rosters to get them up to the AI's liking and the trade frequency and trade logic would begin to play out better as the years progressed......... and I will say now that I'm a few seasons into my sim that this seems to be how it's playing out for the most part. There aren't as many trades (though there's still more than years past) and there seems to be a bit more logic behind what a given team is trying to accomplish by making trades. So the whole re-working / re-shaping the rosters thing early into the sim seems like it might be valid.

To your point though, that first season of the sim..... yes, trades are completely insane.