Can a setting be changed to stop the trades?

[BorgPokerPro]

Hey All

Just curious can anything be done to get teams to trade not only on a more realistic basis but at a more realistic rate?

First issue is during preseason we have like 20 trades made which is a bit much.

Second and even more alarming is the type of trades. The Nats send Strasburg to Orioles for Chris Davis. These two teams would not make this deal

Yankees trade Starlin Castro for two minor league players. ?

The trades seem too many and too unrealistic. Any recommendations for settings.

Thanks in Advance.

[Mr. Marlin]

Easily. Under "League Settings" and I believe the "Rules" tab you can change the frequency of trades all the way up or down. You can also modify what the AI values in trades. Or you can disable trades altogether.

[Cinnamon J. Scudworth]

Sometimes you will see a flurry of trades early in the standard MLB game because AI GMs just look at their teams as a collection of numbers, not as something that was the result of their work over the offseason. The teams as constructed by their real life counterparts are not necessarily "optimized" from their point of view.

The most glaring example of this was in OOTP 13, in which the AI would almost always very quickly trade Prince Fielder away from the Tigers, even though Detroit had just signed him to a 9 year deal that offseason. This was because the AI, when constructing its ideal Detroit depth chart, viewed him as simply an overpaid backup to Miguel Cabrera. Given that in real life Fielder only stuck with the Tigers through 2013, this looks like a shrewd move by the AI in retrospect, but it certainly felt weird at the time.

As Mr. Marlin notes above, you can disable trading entirely. I sometimes do this in the standard MLB game through the All Star break in the first year, just to give players some history that might better justify AI trades.

[BorgPokerPro]

Originally Posted by Cinnamon J. Scudworth

Sometimes you will see a flurry of trades early in the standard MLB game because AI GMs just look at their teams as a collection of numbers, not as something that was the result of their work over the offseason. The teams as constructed by their real life counterparts are not necessarily "optimized" from their point of view.

The most glaring example of this was in OOTP 13, in which the AI would almost always very quickly trade Prince Fielder away from the Tigers, even though Detroit had just signed him to a 9 year deal that offseason. This was because the AI, when constructing its ideal Detroit depth chart, viewed him as simply an overpaid backup to Miguel Cabrera. Given that in real life Fielder only stuck with the Tigers through 2013, this looks like a shrewd move by the AI in retrospect, but it certainly felt weird at the time.

As Mr. Marlin notes above, you can disable trading entirely. I sometimes do this in the standard MLB game through the All Star break in the first year, just to give players some history that might better justify AI trades.

So you will shut it off then turn it back on later? That can be done?

[Orcin]

Originally Posted by BorgPokerPro

So you will shut it off then turn it back on later? That can be done?

Yes.

[Mr. Marlin]

The real beauty of this game it the extent to which the gameplay can be customized.

[thirdsaint]

Originally Posted by Mr. Marlin

The real beauty of this game it the extent to which the gameplay can be customized.

No kidding. I do the same thing in my fictional league because the AI is goofy sometimes. They'll trade a star player for another play of somewhat reasonable value who plays a position they are already stacked at, creating an unbalanced roster for seemingly no reason. I usually keep my Trade setting at 'low' which keeps the amount of trading way down and then bump it to Normal when the trade deadline approaches. I'll still filter through trades and put the kibosh on any that don't make sense. I'm like David Stern... only worse...