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Old 12-01-2019, 04:26 AM   #14
ExeR
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Originally Posted by Ferrisrox View Post
The Sabres, this off-season, spent over $17 million on Pettersen and Tavares and last year, with the same management group and a ton of money they did nothing. Adding to the confusion, with Pettersen and Eichel already on the roster, Tavares seems like a bizarre way to spend the money. He is currently slotted in as the teams fourth line centre.
The logical explanation should be that this switch is triggered by change in organisational goals. Ideally, you would want AI gunning for quality signings all the time. But there's only one thing to balance here because of contract nature and it comes to play in this spot: players want long term deals. W/o it balancing free cap and free agents would be easy: everybody should offer everybody what they can afford, 1 year deals, everybody happy. But with multiyear deals, there's a backside of AI not being held back & loading on bad contracts and ruining organisation's future (hardcap doesn't help either). And as you can see with Tavares example, it's bound to happen frequently.
But in general I agree with suggestions. I think baseball game got it figured out better, even with top signings costing the team that signed them draft picks. The area of focus should be top players, the ones that "if they go to free agency, 25+ teams will want to sign them". Star driven league like NBA have teams that plan 3+ years ahead to have space and great situation to present to top player So figuring out top players will be enough, because baseball game have plenty of moneyball signings available left (for both you & AI), but top player you want will rarely fall into your lap for cheaper price because nobody signed him. So making some PTS, GR, Star Rating filters to identify "player that 25+ teams will want to sign if they have cap space" might be good idea. So then, no matter what the organisational goal is, or whatever else is triggering nobody to sign them with available space, it switches the other way. So McDavid would have offers from all teams, even those that have 4kk. He will just decline and choose between offers close to his demand. Bargaining and chance to offer improved deal and outbid competition like in baseball version would be great too.

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