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08-11-2004, 10:21 PM | #21 |
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Just to throw something else into the discussion for possible consideration involving the free agency process... Seems to me at least some players have a willingness to lower their demands as time proceeds through the free agency period. The most extreme cases would be the players who simply do not sign but then take much less after free agency than they could have gotten signing during free agency. I have no evidence but I believe I have seen players I have considered bidding for, seen they were asking more than I wanted to pay, checked later when, and saw they were asking for somewhat less. Signing bonuses work this way in the draft, right?
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08-11-2004, 10:44 PM | #22 |
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The problem here seems to be a created player. I ran a league once where the exact same thing happened, a player I created to bring in FA to spice up the offseason when offered would always take the last offer entered. The only real way around this is to FTP all offers, but if you have a system that prohibits that, you have to use another workaround. The commisioner has to himself determine the best contract for the player in question.
This cannot be done if the commish has a team or is connected to another team somehow (friend of a GM or such). It has to be completely unbiased. One could mask the offering teams somehow (such as owners swapping team names with the commisioner blind to who is whom) and then the best contract can be decided on. Total dollars, length of contract would be most important. However this takes out other factors such as play availability or winning (which I don't believe the game always takes into account properly anyways). Hope this helps. P.S. This also seems to happen with players who are edited a great deal also. |
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Edited out, see next post.
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08-12-2004, 09:45 AM | #25 |
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I wonder if this affects imported historical players as well. One of my leagues imports 'MLB Defectors' and this could explain them accepting some offers that were lower than others were claiming to have made.
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This seems like a simple logic fix. Whatever function that sorts and then rejects lesser offers is simply not built into the created player. Anybody post this in the support forum, yet?
I doubt this effects historical players, as they're generated in different ways.
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08-13-2004, 10:38 AM | #29 |
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This does sound like a bug.
That said, I would be very careful about asking the game to be programmed to only take the highest offer. There are many factors IRL that contribute to where a player will sign. Players don't always take the top money offer out there. For the sake of realism, I would like the game to still have players sign for less sometimes. Just as in real life, we (the owners) don't have to know the reasons for the player doing this. Sometimes it could just be personal reasons. |
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09-29-2004, 08:43 PM | #33 |
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Actually... I'm not sure it is the AI logic between choosing a contract... what I would suspect is something in the way the game stores bids to players. I have a feeling that "created" players might have been overlooked when it came to the way the game "remembers" bids - so for the created player, the last bid is the "only" bid he is aware of....
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Come on, its not all about the money. Some players sign because they like the team.
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Just looking at the intial offers
I see Cincy is the only one who offered 4 years The AI is really buggy when it comes to years...so even a 20m at 5 years will bring the dreaded (I don't want to be tied up so long) That 6 year offer...he could have offered the moon and the AI would reject it |
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