What motivates a player to accept ridiculously low offers in FA/extensions

billyray1984 · 06-22-2021, 02:19 PM

New to the game and I was wondering what motivates a player to accept very low $ amount in FA even though they could ask for a lot more. In my save, Hunter Perdue showed up as a monster 1B in FA years ago after strangely not getting a qo from his previous team. 80 overall, multiple 5-6+ war seasons, 30 HR on average. Cream of the crop in a FA class that was hot garbage.

Contract demand. 12 mil. For multiple years. I jumped on him and gave him his 9 mil for 5 years which he accepted almost immediately. No other team even showed interest.

He only got better once on my team and after 3 american league mvp titles, I was like ho boy, he'll ask for the moon. Nope, he was fine accepting 12 mil again for 4 years. After this I extended him for a few years years at 18 mil and now, at age 38, after we won our first world series, and after a season in which he was the league leader in obp, slugging, ops and hr, he finally decided he was worth 40 mil for 5 years.

Was he really, really insecure for all those years ? I play without player morale btw. Every other guy on my team starts asking for 25 mil + once they get to FA and are halfway decent, I just had Hunter who I guess understood he needed to take a paycut for us to remain competitive.

monkeystyxx · 06-22-2021, 04:31 PM

Does seem weird...

Does he have very, very, very low greed and very, very high loyalty?

RchW · 06-22-2021, 05:23 PM

What are the highest earning players making?

billyray1984 · 06-22-2021, 05:49 PM

I don't play with player personality traits so I don't know if he has low greeed or not. I'm pretty deep so all the "name" players are old veterans that were drafter around present time, but the highest salaries are around 35-45 mil.

The only thing that might have messed with the AI is that he is a two-way player in my game (he's a pitcher in real life) and he is TERRIBLE at pitching (in my save, no knock against the real guy). So somewhere along the way someone decided to start him at first base and he decided that raking was his way of life, but maybe the AI still considered him a pitcher and based his salaries demand on that for all those years.

06-22-2021, 02:19 PM	#1
billyray1984 Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Jun 2021 Posts: 216	What motivates a player to accept ridiculously low offers in FA/extensions New to the game and I was wondering what motivates a player to accept very low $ amount in FA even though they could ask for a lot more. In my save, Hunter Perdue showed up as a monster 1B in FA years ago after strangely not getting a qo from his previous team. 80 overall, multiple 5-6+ war seasons, 30 HR on average. Cream of the crop in a FA class that was hot garbage. Contract demand. 12 mil. For multiple years. I jumped on him and gave him his 9 mil for 5 years which he accepted almost immediately. No other team even showed interest. He only got better once on my team and after 3 american league mvp titles, I was like ho boy, he'll ask for the moon. Nope, he was fine accepting 12 mil again for 4 years. After this I extended him for a few years years at 18 mil and now, at age 38, after we won our first world series, and after a season in which he was the league leader in obp, slugging, ops and hr, he finally decided he was worth 40 mil for 5 years. Was he really, really insecure for all those years ? I play without player morale btw. Every other guy on my team starts asking for 25 mil + once they get to FA and are halfway decent, I just had Hunter who I guess understood he needed to take a paycut for us to remain competitive.

06-22-2021, 05:23 PM	#3
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06-22-2021, 04:31 PM	#2
monkeystyxx Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Oct 2014 Posts: 293	Does seem weird... Does he have very, very, very low greed and very, very high loyalty?

06-22-2021, 05:49 PM	#4
billyray1984 Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Jun 2021 Posts: 216	I don't play with player personality traits so I don't know if he has low greeed or not. I'm pretty deep so all the "name" players are old veterans that were drafter around present time, but the highest salaries are around 35-45 mil. The only thing that might have messed with the AI is that he is a two-way player in my game (he's a pitcher in real life) and he is TERRIBLE at pitching (in my save, no knock against the real guy). So somewhere along the way someone decided to start him at first base and he decided that raking was his way of life, but maybe the AI still considered him a pitcher and based his salaries demand on that for all those years.