AI offer prospects to me?

[Harmon Killebrew]

Is there a way to change my teams focus to "rebuilding" and the AI will offer prospects for my teams veterans?

[MizzouRah]

Originally Posted by Harmon Killebrew

Is there a way to change my teams focus to "rebuilding" and the AI will offer prospects for my teams veterans?

Yes go into your teams front office and you can change it there.

[MikeS21]

Originally Posted by MizzouRah

Yes go into your teams front office and you can change it there.

Will that cause the AI to offer prospects for veterans? I have some expensive older 4 and 5 star veterans I'd love to shop for prospects. The only offers I get are for other veterans.

[BIG17EASY]

Originally Posted by MikeS21

Will that cause the AI to offer prospects for veterans? I have some expensive older 4 and 5 star veterans I'd love to shop for prospects. The only offers I get are for other veterans.

Perhaps. Depending on how expensive they are, you may need to throw some money into the deal. It's highly unlikely they'll offer prospects if you use the "Shop Player" function, though, as the AI will only offer one-for-one deals and will only offer players on their 40-man roster. So you'll have to set up the trade in the trading screen and see how the AI responds.

[RchW]

Originally Posted by MikeS21

Will that cause the AI to offer prospects for veterans? I have some expensive older 4 and 5 star veterans I'd love to shop for prospects. The only offers I get are for other veterans.

Would you offer prospects for veterans? Maybe at the trade deadline but.........

[BIG17EASY]

Originally Posted by RchW

Would you offer prospects for veterans? Maybe at the trade deadline but.........

He wouldn't, because he's trying to build. But if his last name was Steinbrenner ...

[MikeS21]

I enjoy building a franchise from promoting prospects. I dislike signing free agents and when a player gets older and too expensive, I'd rather let someone else pay him and replace him with a younger, cheaper, and sometimes better talent. And I would love to do one of those trade deadline deals where veterans get shipped out in return for prospects..

[The Wolf]

You might try setting your trade selector to heavily favor veterans. That might help.

[Harmon Killebrew]

Originally Posted by MizzouRah

Yes go into your teams front office and you can change it there.

In the "front office" ... where? not seeing "rebuilding" option there anywhere.

Unless it's in coaching or scouting? Those aren't on in my game.

[24Rocks]

Originally Posted by Harmon Killebrew

In the "front office" ... where? not seeing "rebuilding" option there anywhere.

Unless it's in coaching or scouting? Those aren't on in my game.

"Team Focus" bottom left corner right under ticket price

[Statsman1]

I have asked, a couple of times, for the "Shop A Player" function to permit us to determine what we're looking for (veteran, specific position, etc.), and have the AI filter out results (other teams' offers) that don't fit that criteria.

In your case, you could shop a veteran, indicate that you want "Prospect" and if no other team offers you anything that qualifies as a prospect, you never see that offer.

I, very often, draft the best player available, even if I don't need another player for that position, so I could move him for someone I do need. Since there's no way to specify that, I get a TON of offers that I have to immediately reject.

I think it's a valuable trading tool to have.

[ezpkns34]

You could always look at the roster strength overview list or whatever it's called & see which competing team(s) could use help at the positions you have available & then just go to the trade screen & offer a trade directly to that team

[RchW]

Originally Posted by MikeS21

I enjoy building a franchise from promoting prospects. I dislike signing free agents and when a player gets older and too expensive, I'd rather let someone else pay him and replace him with a younger, cheaper, and sometimes better talent. And I would love to do one of those trade deadline deals where veterans get shipped out in return for prospects..

Which is exactly why the AI is not going to offer prospects to let you off the hook with pending FA. This is as it should be. Even if a player has years left only teams with playoff chances and a need at the position should have any interest unless we are talking about a top 5 future HoF. Don't get me wrong the trade AI can be exploited, but I'm firmly in the camp that certain obvious exploits like trading pending FA and overpriced declining vets to losing teams should be virtually impossible to complete.

Many long time players myself included use house rules to limit exploits. I understand some people don't like to do this. One of the simplest rules is to honestly evaluate the trade as the opposing GM. Simply put, a losing team is not going to ship a significant prospect for a highly paid veteran period. They might for 2 or 3 good players. A team in line for a playoff spot might but only if they have a need. That's one of the weaknesses in the shop player feature. The AI lists players it wants rid of irrespective of need.

That's why I like the exercise of looking at it from the other GM's pov. Sometimes a good trade you hadn't thought of comes to pass as a result. I've seen an AI team win a WS with 2 players I wanted out.

YMMV