How do you trade in solo career?

[CatKnight]

Is the roster AI better? Sure.

Does it understand waivers well enough to use it effectively? Certainly not. I've also seen the AI lose good players they would have otherwise traded or 'lived with' on the 25.

[Sgran]

I play with scouting on and I don't "win" trades as convincingly as I did in past versions (I'm playing 13). I've found that it's much easier to game the system by picking up great undrafted players with 5star potential and then trading them. Not sure why these players appear out of the blue after 15 rounds of drafting, but it happens. I usually let myself claim them (many flame out anyway, and i justify it by saying that it's the benefit of spending so much on scouting) and then include them in trades when I feel that I'm underpaying otherwise, if that makes sense. I mean, no trading or only 1 for 1? I guess I understand, but I'm trying to have fun, not prove something to the world.

[Mike Lowe]

Originally Posted by buffalo_pete

Every time I read about you trading away Morneau in your dynasty thread, my heart breaks a little bit

I'm definitely still considering extending him, albeit for a year or two.


There are some good FA's scheduled for this offseason though, and I think that $14-15M a year could be spent elsewhere. He's schedule to have a WAR of about 3.0 by year's end, and I'm not sure that's worth $14M a year at 33 years of age...especially when you're the Twins and we're talking about a 1B, perhaps the easiest replaced position in baseball.

[Lukas Berger]

Originally Posted by RchW

Roster AI is significantly improved. Good players on waivers are rare.

Originally Posted by '94 EXPOS

I find that the AI very rarely claims anyone on waivers in any situation even when it would clearly make sense that they do it. I am very hesitant to claim players for my team because of this factor. If I do claim a player I hold myself to the rule that he must stay on my 40 man roster (for a reasonable period).

Oddly, I have found the AI to be quite aggressive in the Rule 5 draft. I have lost a number of prospects who were clearly still in the developmental phase of their career. I don't mind this I just find it strange when comparing it to the waiver behaviour.

Absolutely agree with both these comments. The ai doesn't really waive good players anymore, but it also doesn't take advantage of claiming players who are on waivers either. Hopefully that'll get tightened up at some point.