Trading for money, not players

LoneCanidae · 04-03-2022, 12:28 PM

Hi,

I was thinking about a different trading system.
Instead of trading for players, trading for money. Or some buy-out clause thing. A bit like soccer. Team owns the player, you give 150 million for Messi and you got him, if he wants.
Now it just seems you are just dumping people to gain something better.
Players are not pieces, they are human after all...

Anyway. Is there a way to do this in OOTP?

MathBandit · 04-03-2022, 12:29 PM

To clarify, you think players are humans and not just pieces, so your solution is they should be bought and sold as property, instead of swapped for different players that better help your team?

I don't have an answer as to whether that style of contract purchasing is available in OOTP.

LoneCanidae · 04-03-2022, 12:34 PM

Yeh skip that human part. I just mean trading players or prospects just doesn't feel right to me. Doesn't mean that buying players is better.

pgjocki · 04-03-2022, 12:35 PM

There is the "Posting" option under Settings/Financials but I don't know if you can do it within a single league.

But this is a good idea and I'll see if I can't create a new league to test it out.

Bobfather · 04-03-2022, 02:44 PM

You can trade players for money already in the trade screen just add cash where it says add cash and remove any players you don't want.

MathBandit · 04-03-2022, 02:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bobfather

You can trade players for money already in the trade screen just add cash where it says add cash and remove any players you don't want.

They're not talking about throwing in a couple million. They're talking about a league with no player-for-player trades at all, where instead the As sell Olson for $60M to the Braves.

Sweed · 04-03-2022, 04:49 PM

I would go with "please don't try to add this". Every year the "trade" module is worked on and every year people complain about it needs to be better.

Adding in a football\soccer transfer module will open up a big feature that will need a lot of support for, what I think, would be a small group of users that would actually use it. FWIW FM probably gets as many if not more complaints on it's transfer module than OOTP gets on it's trade module and they've been working on it for 20+ years.

Time would be better spent to expand on the current GM\financial side of current OOTP, IMHO.

04-03-2022, 12:28 PM	#1
LoneCanidae Bat Boy Join Date: Apr 2021 Posts: 5	Trading for money, not players Hi, I was thinking about a different trading system. Instead of trading for players, trading for money. Or some buy-out clause thing. A bit like soccer. Team owns the player, you give 150 million for Messi and you got him, if he wants. Now it just seems you are just dumping people to gain something better. Players are not pieces, they are human after all... Anyway. Is there a way to do this in OOTP?

04-03-2022, 12:35 PM	#4
pgjocki All Star Starter Join Date: Jun 2013 Location: Maryland - just outside DC Posts: 1,590	There is the "Posting" option under Settings/Financials but I don't know if you can do it within a single league. But this is a good idea and I'll see if I can't create a new league to test it out. __________________ - - - World Series championships: 1926, 1931, 1934, 1942, 1944, 1946, 1964, 1967, 1982, 2006, 2011

04-03-2022, 02:44 PM	#5
Bobfather All Star Starter Join Date: Jun 2016 Location: Boston Ma. Posts: 1,632	You can trade players for money already in the trade screen just add cash where it says add cash and remove any players you don't want. __________________ I play out every game—one pitch mode.

04-03-2022, 12:29 PM	#2
MathBandit All Star Starter Join Date: Feb 2021 Posts: 1,445	To clarify, you think players are humans and not just pieces, so your solution is they should be bought and sold as property, instead of swapped for different players that better help your team? I don't have an answer as to whether that style of contract purchasing is available in OOTP.

04-03-2022, 12:34 PM	#3
LoneCanidae Bat Boy Join Date: Apr 2021 Posts: 5	Yeh skip that human part. I just mean trading players or prospects just doesn't feel right to me. Doesn't mean that buying players is better.

04-03-2022, 04:49 PM	#7
Sweed Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Iowa Posts: 6,678	I would go with "please don't try to add this". Every year the "trade" module is worked on and every year people complain about it needs to be better. Adding in a football\soccer transfer module will open up a big feature that will need a lot of support for, what I think, would be a small group of users that would actually use it. FWIW FM probably gets as many if not more complaints on it's transfer module than OOTP gets on it's trade module and they've been working on it for 20+ years. Time would be better spent to expand on the current GM\financial side of current OOTP, IMHO.