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tysok · 07-11-2007, 12:44 PM

Need a "free agency" for personnel, just as there is for players.

While it's not entirely accurate to the real world, there's not much of bidding wars for pitching coaches, it would help make everything else realistic. Right now if the guy will work for your team, you get him... period. I end up with my entire staff being 20s across the board. There are other factors besides money and "wouldn't mind working for that team" in reality, but it needs to be all about money in OOTP. Leo Mazzone left Atlanta for Baltimore not because he didn't want to work for Atlanta anymore, not because Atlanta didn't want him back, and most likely not because Baltimore paid him more... but because his friend was the manager of Baltimore. OOTP doesn't have anything like that, if they wouldn't mind working there they take the job. It doesn't take a whole lot into account.

If one team is willing to pay him more he should go there in OOTP. Right now he doesn't care, he just wants 1 million a year and whoever offers it to him first gets him. Maybe I'm the Red Sox, need his abilities, and I'd pay him 5 million a year... but he wants 1 million and I accidentally simmed a day and missed giving him an offer... now he's sitting in Kansas City getting 1 million a year losing 100 games.

07-11-2007, 12:44 PM	#17 (permalink)
tysok Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 4,304	Need a "free agency" for personnel, just as there is for players. While it's not entirely accurate to the real world, there's not much of bidding wars for pitching coaches, it would help make everything else realistic. Right now if the guy will work for your team, you get him... period. I end up with my entire staff being 20s across the board. There are other factors besides money and "wouldn't mind working for that team" in reality, but it needs to be all about money in OOTP. Leo Mazzone left Atlanta for Baltimore not because he didn't want to work for Atlanta anymore, not because Atlanta didn't want him back, and most likely not because Baltimore paid him more... but because his friend was the manager of Baltimore. OOTP doesn't have anything like that, if they wouldn't mind working there they take the job. It doesn't take a whole lot into account. If one team is willing to pay him more he should go there in OOTP. Right now he doesn't care, he just wants 1 million a year and whoever offers it to him first gets him. Maybe I'm the Red Sox, need his abilities, and I'd pay him 5 million a year... but he wants 1 million and I accidentally simmed a day and missed giving him an offer... now he's sitting in Kansas City getting 1 million a year losing 100 games. __________________ I don't know about you, but as for me, the question has already been answered: Should we be here? Yes! Jack Buck, September 17, 2001 It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. I firmly believe that any man's finest hour... is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious. (Vince Lombardi) I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. (George S. Patton)