In all previous iterations of OOTP, I always set the trading difficulty to max as I felt like otherwise, it would be constant swindling of the AI. In the beta of the new game, I chose to do the same thing again, however, this time around it seems to be MUCH more difficult to match up in a trade. For example, I ran the current day Yankees and I had to eat about a 30% of Aaron Judge’s salary to even be offered a mediocre reliever. I tried trading manually with many teams that had sufficient budget space to take on his salary but still not much to be had. Obviously this doesn’t reflect reality because if the “real world” Yankees were offering to trade Judge whilst eating 30% of his salary, every MLB team should be head over heels with their offers instead of valuing him similar to a AAAA reliever. Was the trading difficulty significantly ratcheted up in this version? Or is the AI super averse to taking on any players making more than the league minimum now? I’m probably going to re-run my franchise on the default level trading difficulty so I can compare but was wondering if there were any other people running into similar situations or if the developers may have specifically mentioned something about this?
