Thanks for the replies, guys. Was worth it just to get some responses. Again, the whole thing is so new to me, this type of play. I've played only those Facebook sims where the seasons are 24hours long, type of thing. Anyway...
Morbid: Thanks for that, a season only being a month and 1/2 is good, better than I expected at 3, don't know which thread I picked that misinformation up from. Thanks.
Ares:
Seriously? You wouldn't take a trade tipped heavily in your favor? Nodding, I see your point, and that's very valid. Anyone cares to answer this, would be appreciated in just exactly how and why you do trade then, please.
But for me, what I've done (not knowing squat of course) is just view the team listing of players there in the trade windows..., I look at the top portion only, first window and 1/2, not going below a high (77) rated player. I see, oh they have RDE, LDE, CB, SS, FS, MLF... TE, WR, etc. 'but' they have no QB until the one rated at 63. ... so my logic is I see they have 2 TE's, one at 83/95 and another at 55/80.. I have only one TE at 54. So I offer a QB at 73 (my other QB is only 82 or 79 so I'm keeping that), and I offer a 2016 Draft 1, 2 or 3, whatever the meter sets it at just in the other player's favor.
So what's wrong with that attitude? Just asking. And that's the way I attacked the situation for the first few days I've been here now.
However, after reading your excellent points of interest, Ares, and yours Morbid and Damean, I can see that there are far more elements at stake and at play in this game that I didn't have any idea about until you just brought them up here in this post. So,thanks a lot. Getting my edumacation here, right on the spot. And I like learning that way, where the rubber meets the road. Yeah. :)
Damean; 'Differing player weights'.. that's a lesson right there. Yeah,I just finally bumped into setting the player rates according to the coach yesterday, after reading it on the blog. Heavy stuff there. So I toyed around with setting up a very aggressive team in that section. "Then", I could understand what you're saying here. And it makes sense, of course my player would react different under my training staff selections than another coach and another team. So that affects how they 'view' other players stats too huh? Kind of set's their binoculars by that? Interesting, ... I had no idea. Excellent you brought it up though. Thanks. And I didn't know the relative rating of a new draftee, so good to know that too.
And yeah, I'll look around at each of my 9 teams more closely now. I do have 4 that I have done no trading at all in, so I have all of my future draft picks pristine and in place.
Morbid: I had no idea what I could look at of the other teams players, so all of that information is golden man to me... thanks a lot. Checking their players in different positions, I like that., I'll be looking for that after I answer this post. Wow. A lot to absorb here, guys.
But that sets up my last point, I was looking at this all wrong. I was kind of looking at the pot, watching for it to boil. And come to find that there are so many deeper layers of how to handle my team, how to look at it differently because of those points. I'll get digging and keep busy setting things up and after a few games I'll notice that my team's boiling already! Ha! :) But, metaphors aside. Point is, wow was I incredibly naieve and stupid in how I was looking at all of this. Got a lot more to learn. Wow. But I'm up for it.
There's so many variables I see now. Do I want to focus on a running or passing team, or balanced? Do I want man to man or zone, or a little of both., ..... lots of things I can set. Plus scouting the upcoming team I play? Whoaaaa... Honestly, I'll plug along, but I really think it'll be quite a few months before I get the hang of this game and the dynamics enough to really be making much of a difference on my team. Whew.. :)
Thanks again for replies. Good ones.