Re: Official MyGM / MyLEAGUE / MLO 2K17 Wish List
This...................
I brought this up last year and now again this year as a feature request for MyLeague/MyGM, where FA signing logic should be overhauled to react to the actual FA market.
Right now, player's ask form money based basically on age, potential and overall rating. They take no account for the amount of cap out there to be spent or to the number of comparable players at their position also in the FA market. Loyalty, Financial Security and Play for Winner motivation sliders act as marginal modifiers around asking prices set by the core signing logic.
In the future, we need players in FA to do things like:
All of that requires a kind of dynamic logic for the FA market to be built in to the FA signing system and player asking prices. Just as ACE includes a "who are you, who am I?" logic for players on the court to make dynamic decisions on offense, free agents need this kind of logic and awareness for themselves, the teams making offers, and for the market of other available players at their position for dynamic market based behavior. The calendar also needs to be a factor, because players who can play lose bargaining power as lineups become set.
As for the teams, the system should include some logic where they manage their cap in some simple ways. Teams should assess how much of their cap by percentage they want to devote to star players and also to each position to come up with budget targets by position, all based on percentage of total cap size.
So teams with young stars they may want to keep need to plan and act accordingly in free agency, and not sign that big deal in year 2 that will cause them to lose their young soon to be max star in year 3. Teams with extra cap space who are in "buying" mode should look at what cap space they have available and maybe "overpay" relative to the market to fill that positional hole they think may be the final piece.
We won't get any of that this year, though I hope they can build this. I'm sure it's complex. But it's where this system needs to go and it hasn't had an overhaul in a long time.
Right now, player's ask form money based basically on age, potential and overall rating. They take no account for the amount of cap out there to be spent or to the number of comparable players at their position also in the FA market. Loyalty, Financial Security and Play for Winner motivation sliders act as marginal modifiers around asking prices set by the core signing logic.
In the future, we need players in FA to do things like:
- hold teams up if they are the only available starting caliber player at their position when three or four teams all need that position filled.
- wait for a premier player at their position to sign somewhere to set the market before signing with other teams who lost out on signing the premier player
- sign for league minimum when appropriate, either as unproven rookies regardless of potential rating or as decent, experienced role players without a job in November, etc.
All of that requires a kind of dynamic logic for the FA market to be built in to the FA signing system and player asking prices. Just as ACE includes a "who are you, who am I?" logic for players on the court to make dynamic decisions on offense, free agents need this kind of logic and awareness for themselves, the teams making offers, and for the market of other available players at their position for dynamic market based behavior. The calendar also needs to be a factor, because players who can play lose bargaining power as lineups become set.
As for the teams, the system should include some logic where they manage their cap in some simple ways. Teams should assess how much of their cap by percentage they want to devote to star players and also to each position to come up with budget targets by position, all based on percentage of total cap size.
So teams with young stars they may want to keep need to plan and act accordingly in free agency, and not sign that big deal in year 2 that will cause them to lose their young soon to be max star in year 3. Teams with extra cap space who are in "buying" mode should look at what cap space they have available and maybe "overpay" relative to the market to fill that positional hole they think may be the final piece.
We won't get any of that this year, though I hope they can build this. I'm sure it's complex. But it's where this system needs to go and it hasn't had an overhaul in a long time.
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