There's no thought/development process behind the AI it's just trade anyone for any amount at any time. However, good luck trying to trade an 81 ranked player for someone's #1 future draft pick. You can't do that but the computer/AI can. The same goes with in coming trade offers. It's just a random algorithm that offers you anything hence why you get multiple trade offers for the same player even though you declined the first time. It's total garbage and makes the game so unrealistic. The same with BAP, after season one the entire NHL was thrown into a bag, shuffled and handed out. Pastrnak with the Devils, McDavid with San Jose, Zibanejad with Calgary, Barkov with Columbus, Ovechkin with Dallas on and on and on. I could possibly handle this stupid reshuffle if it stayed as is after year one, but every single year you see huge superstars move onto other teams. It's like everyone in the NHL has the same 2 year deal you have. Any team can go from dead last one year, to winning the cup the following year. The only reasoning behind wanting to be traded or go to a specific team is for the jersey only. Because the team has been put through a meat grinder several times and all the core players have been dealt elsewhere.
The saddest part is that these issues we have are for offline play options so you know EA doesn't care whatsoever.
I fixed that, as best I can, by cheating on editing contracts. I just guess at about what a contract ought to be/will be, and then sign some of the key pieces on each team to 7 (or so) year deals.
It's pretty stupid, it also makes things harder on myself as I always take over a rebuilding team, and there ought to be at least a few of those guys going to free agency that I can add, but the game always has it be 50%+ of those guys, rather than something around 5-10% of them.
So, as with having trades "off"... I'd rather my unrealistic not-enough-movement than the game's staggeringly, unbelievably unrealistic way-too-much movement every year, all the time.
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