I'm finding that for the most part, the computer does okay with FA signings but I am simming one day at a time to keep some of the grotesquely bad signings out. I mean, there are surprises in real life but I don't see the Mets usurping David Wright 82OVR for Sandoval 84OVR or the Cardinals signing Russell Martin when they have Yadi.
My tip then, is to sim one day at a time and then check the transactions screen just to make sure one of these didn't happen. Reload if it did and lower that teams offer. Been going much faster.
I'm on the final day for arbitration offers right now and there are a lot of non-tenders that I do not believe would happen. Any tips for this to make it go faster and smoother?
I'm wondering if I manually offered arb defaulting to what they made last year if the CPU would adjust it to a better offer that they could win or not? I didn't have time to test it yesterday so I thought I'd ask before I could try this weekend.
My other thought is to write down all of the ones I didn't agree with and then manually try to give them a good offer but that seems time consuming as well.
Same question for people with renewable contracts. That doesn't seem as inundating as there were just a few that were not good there like Arizona non-tendered Gregorious, Owings, AND Ahmed.
Thanks for any help or advice.