i have an Ace that's been on my team for 13 years and he's going FA next year. He'll get a max deal and i won't give out one so i've accepted the fact that i won't have him anymore. at least i'll get a couple picks for him.

i kept checking his demands all year in a wild hope he'd change his mind though and alas he never did. i like the update where more good FA decide to go FA but it has bugged me a little that a guy on a very successful team making the playoffs year in and year out would be just as likely to bail as a guy on crap team. for example how many real life FA choose to leave the Yankees or Red Sox? even this year Damon and godziyya have said they don't want to leave. So i thought well maybe if i make the WS again he'll change his mind (i know i dreaming) and i did make it but he's still leaving.

just a little *****. still happy with the way it is overall just seems like a little player loyalty like that would be nice to be programmed in. edit: never went to arb. signed long term right away.)

"how many real life FA choose to leave the Yankees or Red Sox?"



That's because the Yankees and Red Sox have all the money. In real life, there is almost no way that leaving the Yankees or Red Sox can mean anything other than making LESS money. The exception to this would of course be leaving one for the other. Which Johnny Damon did just a couple of years ago.



A better comparison is the NFL (or NBA, etc) because these are salary capped leagues, which (essentially) is what HBD is. And the answer to the question for the NFL is that basically everybody on the Super Bowl Champs who is a FA leaves, because the Champs' #2 WR will get #1 WR money on the FA market, the Champs' backup RB will get a starting job and money somewhere on the FA market, etc, and the salary cap prevents the Champs from matching all of these contracts. And they almost NEVER take less money to stay.

just for s's and g's, pete, what's his loyalty rating?

do hbd players have a loyalty rating?

i feel as though i will probably have to come to the same crossroads with jumbo long on my kc team eventually

and it hurts me

Yamil Pulido

patience of 44 which is low. i think that is the rating used by the update. and now that i look i never did arb him. signed him right off the bat.

holy smokes. he's butter

*goes to check jumbo's patience rating*

7 cy youngs and a fireman.

jumbo's is 57

and he's signed thru next season

will he re-sign with me again before he tests free agency???

how do i post a player link?

go to the player card and under the blog tab copy the forum link and just paste it here.

jumbo's won 2 cy's and he's 29

lier

you didn't tell me to get rid of the url's

i dunno. he might. you never arbed him but the only difference is he has 13 points higher than Yamil in patience so i would think not. bummer.

you signed pulido twice

hope i get that chance with jumbo