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01-19-2013, 05:49 PM | #1 |
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Is this an exploit
Before the season I locked up a few of my soon to be arbitration eligible players up for 3-4 seasons. At the time they all had service time just over 2 seasons with arbitration eligible set at 3 seasons. Modern era financial figures.
Among the deals: 2B Phil Matthews. He's a 50 overall/55 potential 4 years for 16 million total. His WAR by season: 1.1 (39 games) 4.8 5.2 2.8 (with 20 some games to go) Closer Lee Wilson. 80/80 4 years/ 11 million total 0.9 2.0 2.3 Matt Howard. 47/64 5 year/ 18 million total He would only be a Super Two guy if anything. He'll be just shy of 3 years. 5.7 3.7 (And a few partial seasons) All of these guys have arbitration estimates at roughly double what they are scheduled to make next season. Does the AI just not handle pre-arbitration eligible contract extensions well? If this is a known exploit I'll go into commish mode and bump up their salaries. Obviously these deals represent a tremendous value to me if their production stays. |
01-19-2013, 07:11 PM | #2 | |
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01-19-2013, 07:20 PM | #3 | |
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It seems like I might have gotten too big of a discount (because they are both defensive specialists, maybe the game isn't calculating their defensive value enough in their contract demands). Just wondering if anybody else noticed the same. If not, I guess I just got a little lucky. |
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01-19-2013, 07:54 PM | #4 |
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Well, with the caveat that I'm not playing in the current era, I have to say no. What you're doing is overpaying the players now, and you're taking on the risk of a bust later. A player may be having sensational year right now and looks cheap but two years down the road he may only be blocking a better prospect and you can't trade him. What you're doing is taking a calculated risk. I don't see that as gaming the game. Not in the big picture, not over the long run.
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01-19-2013, 10:36 PM | #5 | |
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It's quite common in the real world MLB game now (and is key to the roster construction of the Rays, for one), and I've found that OOTP does a solid job of varying the level of discount that any given player is willing to offer for such an extension. I wait until the arb estimate for arb year 1 is known, then generally offer the extension at or year the arb 1 salary rate. Some players will take that for a long period of time, others for a shorter period of time, and others won't settle for less than some compromise between their expected arb2 and arb3 year salaries, assuming linear growth. It is exactly how I would expect such players to behave, and the numbers vary nicely between potential targets. |
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