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Young Drachma · 01-09-2013, 10:56 PM

My advice is to know what you want to do with your team. If you can pick up a few quality guys each year, you can be contending in no time. So it makes sense to isolate your one or two star guys you want if you're in a contending mood. If you're going to build a more organic way, then wolvie's advice about 2nd and 3rd tier guys is critical.

There are almost ALWAYS those kinds of role type guys on the market that you can pick up, so I'd use FA1 to isolate the stars you want and making great offers on a guy you REALLY want. Not EVERYONE signs during FA1, so you might not get him, but you want to deter those "must haves" from signing elsewhere.

FA2 tomorrow night is the critical sim where pretty much everyone (with some exceptions) will sign, so you need to for sure make your best offers then.

The last sim is basically to the start of Spring Training and that's just picking up whoever you need leftover or post-trade signings and the such. Occasionally, there will be a 4th FA phase in-between the 2nd and 3rd, but again the 1st two are really the ones that are where 95% of the work gets done.

But so long as you know what you want your team's 5 year plan is, you can usually just offer guys with that in mind.

01-09-2013, 10:56 PM	#16
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	My advice is to know what you want to do with your team. If you can pick up a few quality guys each year, you can be contending in no time. So it makes sense to isolate your one or two star guys you want if you're in a contending mood. If you're going to build a more organic way, then wolvie's advice about 2nd and 3rd tier guys is critical. There are almost ALWAYS those kinds of role type guys on the market that you can pick up, so I'd use FA1 to isolate the stars you want and making great offers on a guy you REALLY want. Not EVERYONE signs during FA1, so you might not get him, but you want to deter those "must haves" from signing elsewhere. FA2 tomorrow night is the critical sim where pretty much everyone (with some exceptions) will sign, so you need to for sure make your best offers then. The last sim is basically to the start of Spring Training and that's just picking up whoever you need leftover or post-trade signings and the such. Occasionally, there will be a 4th FA phase in-between the 2nd and 3rd, but again the 1st two are really the ones that are where 95% of the work gets done. But so long as you know what you want your team's 5 year plan is, you can usually just offer guys with that in mind. Last edited by Young Drachma : 01-09-2013 at 10:57 PM.