Trading Draft Picks

SimulationSensation · 11-10-2014, 04:35 PM

I was testing the AI trading and I noticed if you have the AI trading on average. When I try to trade my 1st round pick to another team for their 2nd round pick they won't immediately trade. They need time to think about it.

Or if you have the 1st overall pick and try to trade it for the 30th overall 1st round pick they won't immediately trade.

That just doesn't make sense, anyone have the same problem? Thanks in advance.

marc5477 · 11-15-2014, 10:01 PM

Yep, I wrote about this in the bug thread. Basically, you cannot trade down. What I was trying to do was trade down my top rounds because I was going to lose the top one anyway to a FA I wanted to pick up. But like you noted, you cannot trade down cleanly. The work around is to do it through another trade for a low level player or prospect. If you do that, you can trade draft picks more logically but...

I discovered that the trading AI is very bad and I think I understand why the MLB does not allow draft pick trading. It can easily be abused by managers (like me) who trade away top rounds instead of losing them to a FA. Due to the bad trading AI however, my minor leagues are filled with about 30 prospects with over 60 potential due to all the draft pick trading I had done in years prior... if it were not for insane injuries, I would have won the world series 5 years straight.

I am restarting using a new league soon, setting trading to hard to see if it works out better in the minors. I am also going to change the AI preference to slightly favor vets because they completely discount them in trades whereas I can trade useless 20 potential prospects for a lot sometimes. I am also going to flatten team finances (market size) so they all start on even ground.

grenv · 09-01-2015, 06:25 PM

Basically it seems like Average is just too hard to trade and easy is too easy. What we need is another level called "sensible" which is halfway between average and hard.

e.g. on Average they won't trade a 10th round pick until I give at least a 5th round. And the exact reverse on Easy.

facelessman · 09-01-2015, 06:29 PM

Regarding trade difficulty (not pick for pick), I recently did some testing, it may or not help:

http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...iscussion.html

11-10-2014, 04:35 PM	#1
SimulationSensation Bat Boy Join Date: Nov 2014 Posts: 9	Trading Draft Picks I was testing the AI trading and I noticed if you have the AI trading on average. When I try to trade my 1st round pick to another team for their 2nd round pick they won't immediately trade. They need time to think about it. Or if you have the 1st overall pick and try to trade it for the 30th overall 1st round pick they won't immediately trade. That just doesn't make sense, anyone have the same problem? Thanks in advance.

09-01-2015, 06:29 PM	#4
facelessman Minors (Single A) Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: Las Vegas, NV Posts: 96	Regarding trade difficulty (not pick for pick), I recently did some testing, it may or not help: http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...iscussion.html __________________ Proud Member of the Professional Bowlers Association "I want a refund" = "I'm not willing to explore the learning curve, I need instant gratification".

11-15-2014, 10:01 PM	#2
marc5477 Minors (Double A) Join Date: Nov 2014 Posts: 146	Yep, I wrote about this in the bug thread. Basically, you cannot trade down. What I was trying to do was trade down my top rounds because I was going to lose the top one anyway to a FA I wanted to pick up. But like you noted, you cannot trade down cleanly. The work around is to do it through another trade for a low level player or prospect. If you do that, you can trade draft picks more logically but... I discovered that the trading AI is very bad and I think I understand why the MLB does not allow draft pick trading. It can easily be abused by managers (like me) who trade away top rounds instead of losing them to a FA. Due to the bad trading AI however, my minor leagues are filled with about 30 prospects with over 60 potential due to all the draft pick trading I had done in years prior... if it were not for insane injuries, I would have won the world series 5 years straight. I am restarting using a new league soon, setting trading to hard to see if it works out better in the minors. I am also going to change the AI preference to slightly favor vets because they completely discount them in trades whereas I can trade useless 20 potential prospects for a lot sometimes. I am also going to flatten team finances (market size) so they all start on even ground.

09-01-2015, 06:25 PM	#3
grenv Bat Boy Join Date: Aug 2015 Posts: 10	Basically it seems like Average is just too hard to trade and easy is too easy. What we need is another level called "sensible" which is halfway between average and hard. e.g. on Average they won't trade a 10th round pick until I give at least a 5th round. And the exact reverse on Easy.