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Originally Posted by Dave Stieb II
Syd, this is not the first time you've mentioned this and I'm as confused today as every other time. LOL
I'm obviously missing something, but this time I feel compelled to ask what it is, exactly, I'm missing.
So here goes.....
If you are using all fictional players, how do you have transactions that mirror real life (as closely as you can)????
There is a disconnect there that I just can't wrap my head around.
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I just pull up the transactions on a given day and more or less try to approximate them for each team. Like, if I have a transaction like this:
The Cubs traded Ted Abernathy to the Cardinals for Phil Gagliano.
I start with... "the Cubs trade a good if aging reliever to the Cardinals for a middle-aged 4th outfielder/pinch hitter" and then I go from there. Rarely if ever, of course, are there exact matches because that's not how fictional leagues work; however, what I do is I try to take the general talent level from both sides, fit strengths and weaknesses (and also, if applicable, chemistry issues or the fact that I'll try and move a disgruntled player more easily than a... gruntled one). Sometimes TBH the value of the trades varies quite a bit from real life, like a minor deal winds up being a kind of big one, or for a counter example the equivalent of the Curt Flood/Dick Allen/Tim McCarver trade wound up being a little "meh" in my league.
It's more of an "art" (I don't want to call it an art, haha) than an exact science and the main impetus is to keep transactions flowing through the league at about the same rate as they happened in real life when I'm acting as the GM of all teams. It also forces individual ballclubs to often try and make do with what they've got in their minor league system rather than patch up every hole they have with a trade, which I'd probably do for some teams if I didn't impose this upon myself.
Just as an aside, I looked it up and in retrospect I sort of messed up that "Ted Abernathy" move, heh. Not sure how I managed to mess that up... but I moved Chad Nies, the Cubs' stopper, a 1969 All-Star, and, unlike the real-life Abernathy, a 26 year old, to the Giants, not the Cardinals, for a starting pitcher named Jason Sanders. I always trade between the right teams unless I made a mistake, so clearly I did. Talent-wise, Sanders is *miles* better than Gagliano but the Cubs don't really have any holes in their lineup (in fact, at the time their 4th outfielder was a former All-Star himself) that the Giants had any ability to fill and Nies is, in truth, really, really good (13-7 last year, led the NL in saves and games in relief, 2.53 ERA). I still probably gave up too much for him but... these are the thought processes I have when I make these kinds of deals.