Does Home Town matter?
 

For the third time in two days, I've lost a free agent to a team that made a lower offer but is in the same state as the player's home town. Anyone else seeing that a guy may choose to go "home" via free agency or is this fluky? Seems like I've seen it before maybe.

Could be a number of reasons i guess, never thought of the home town thing as a possibility. Sometimes if you are a struggling team and a player has a very high wants winner rating, he could move to a better team for less money.

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Right then. Pesky help file again.

I have to play around with the idea that "hometown boys" may be more prone to become fan favorites or idolized, no matter what their skill level. I've noticed a couple of times, guys with low skill levels were fan favorites in the past; the "hometown" thing may explain it.

LOL... haven't put much thought into "hometown" until I read this, might help when picking between two closely rated FA.