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Originally Posted by Matt Arnold
If they have decided that they would prefer the CPU 5M offer to yours, then they will not accept your offer. So if they don't even think about your offer, you can't convince them anyways so look elsewhere to spend your money.
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I understand that logic, but for regular free agents, you have the ability to make an offer, other teams can make an offer, and you can go up.
In this, if another team beats you to the highest offer, you can't ever sign the player. So if there's a really good player and his initial ask is $3 million, you might as well just offer $5 million because no team can then ever match your offer and you'll always sign the player.
Or alternatively, if you wait for a couple days before making an offer, and the player already has a $5 million offer, you can't throw your hat in the ring at all.
So really, the only trick to international amateur free agency is who can offer $5 million first, because the AI player will always sign with that team (as no team can match).