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Old 08-28-2023, 12:12 PM   #4
Syd Thrift
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This really just looks like a couple of semi-related decisions by the AI... first it said "hey, do I want to extend this guy?" and then decided it did, and then once the extension was signed it (probably) received a trade proposal from another team who saw the new extension as a positive or at least kept the player as a tradeable asset, and then the original AI said "OK, I need what I'm getting back more than what I'm trading away" and pulled the trigger. Of course the game didn't sign the guy expecting to trade him immediately; I think it's been pretty well shown by now that the AI doesn't really have that kind of forward-thinking.

Isn't there a rule that says you can't trade a player you just signed for X months (I think one year)? That seems like it'd be a good thing to implement here to prevent trades like this if they bother people.
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