Quote:
Originally Posted by tommybaseball
I want to expand the league, but I have noticed that each team chooses not to protect some of their best players, for example Derek Jeter and Jon Lieber, who won 20 games the year before my expansion draft. Is there a way to change this?
|
That can be a somewhat hard question to answer, because there may be factors specific to your league at work. Some of these possible factors include:
1. Finances: does the team need to shed salaries? One of the problems in OOTP is that teams don't necessarily have the financial resources that their real life counterparts do. This is fixable, but something to look at.
2. Vets vs prospects: Does it look like a team is favoring younger players? Or other tendencies (offense vs defense? hitting vs pitching?) There are settings which cause this to happen.
3. The AI doesn't regard these players as the "best" in the same way you do. Figuring out why that is can be tricky, and these forums are full of threads from people debating how the AI values players. A favorite subject is the AI Player Evaluation settings, which many OOTPers think is the key to getting proper AI behavior in this regard. I'm a skeptic, but it's definitely something to consider. As a general observation on this point, it's important to remember that the AI doesn't know who Derek Jeter and Jon Lieber are: they're just data to be interpreted. So you have to make some intelligent guesses on how the AI might be interpreting that data.
Hope that gives you a starting point.