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theawesomestevr posted...

ShatteredElysium posted...

Oh I misread what you meant

The reason that I feel AI should be restricted from sign and trades is that sign and trades reduce the free agency market for user teams. So if the player isn't going to hit free agency he should at least be heading to a user team rather than an AI team.

Well, I can understand and appreciate this sentiment, and if there's reason to believe I'm wrong, by all means tell me, but my fear is that a few extra players hitting free agency isn't going to benefit user teams, but it'll instead provide more guys to get snapped up for market value by AI teams.

I feel like your reasoning might be different than KCF's though based on his earlier post (which I'll edit in a quote in a second) which is why I wanted to know what goal we're trying to accomplish here.

Honestly, I don't even consider this a big deal because, while it is easy to lump all the AI teams together, let's not forget there are still more than a dozen AI teams all competing with each other as well, so it's not like all this juicy free agent talent is going to a select couple of teams. Even if all the big FAs went to AI teams, if they were reasonably distributed, it should not affect the power balance of the league that much. And if they weren't, then it means that the teams they did go to, way outspent their budgets and will be Dolphins level of cost cutting in a few years, but without the security of a gajillion first rounders to make up for it. Furthermore, it's not as if the AI having a higher cap than user teams makes it strictly impossible for users to land those free agents. It simply means that users need to be smart and pick their free agents wisely. Don't be like me a few years back and spend 9M a year on an OT when OTs are plentiful, and 8M a year on a HB when HBs are plentiful, and do both of these in the same year. It's harder, but not necessarily "hard" imo.
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