Posted by travisg on 4/8/2011 2:34:00 PM (view original):
I don't mind the current system. I wish it were more fun, but it doesn't take that long and it's possible to score values by signing coaches from the lower levels.

I like the idea someone had once of just having an unsorted pool of coaches, instead of ranking them by level or position sought, and letting the Invisible Hand set their market value. But that would probably be pretty intimidating for n00bs.

I would love this idea.  Coach hiring doesn't bother me as much as it does others.  But one thing I would change is when a pretty decent coach who isn't offered a job at the end of the hiring process WILL NOT accept an offer to coach a lower level. 

Maybe the coach should look at other openings and use some LOGIC.  Say you have an opening for AAA Pitching Coach and all the guys demanding that role suck.  You check AA, hoping to promote a guy, and they all suck too (happens to all of us, especially if you budget less than $14 million for coaches).  You find a pretty decent unemployed ML guy with a 79 rating and offer him your AAA job, but of course, he'll reject it because he wants to coach at the ML level. 

Here's what I think should happen.  Let's say the ML-wannabe-coach looks at ML pitching job openings and sees there's more than 5 openings.  He'll tell you "I'm holding out for an ML job," just like the current system is set up.  If he looks at the market and sees there's 5 or fewer openings, then he'll say "I am still hopeful for an ML job, but if nobody offers me one, I'll accept your offer (at the end of the hiring process)."  

Maybe make it so that coaches would accept a role one level lower than their demands but not 2 levels.  It's stupid that a coach would rather be unemployed instead of taking a job one level lower.

Also forgot to mention that coaches should also have stats and not just W-L. It would be nice to have team stat history to see if rankings equal production.

I am not a big fan of the way coach hiring works right now. I would much rather have to look through the pool of coaches than have them ranked for me.

As for the multiple years I think that could work. WIS already has the logic in many of their other games as with HD and GD. You cannot redshirt a player or offer any booster gifts if you do not have seasons remaining. If they would just set it up so that you cannot offer a coach more than 2 years without seasons remaining it would prevent guys from signing long term deals with a poor coach and then dropping the team. Granted the coach would be there for one season but it would only be a couple of coaches as most players aren't going to sign every coach to a multi year deal.

The issue of ML coaches not dropping down needs to be fixed. In the MLB if a coach is faced with not getting paid or taking a job at a lower level many of them will take the lower level job so that they have some income coming in. That is the way the world works. People like money and like to spend it. Therefore a coach who wants a ML job and isn't getting the attention should be able to sign to a lower level in the last day or two of coach signings.