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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
Are you not ignoring the dynamics that surround these positions. Are these dumb people, or are they people incentivized to do the less than ideal things. Such as pressure from their owners and average tenure of a GM.
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We don't know those details. I would say though that I doubt ownership is involved in most player personnel choices to the extent that they are explicitly directing specific acquisitions. If there is pressure from an owner to make a bad choice then it's their (the GM) responsibility to run up the ladder exactly why it's a bad choice and convince them of such.
As far as the average tenure of a GM goes I would say there is a case to be made that it's an effect as well as a cause. Teams sack the GM when the team is terrible, choosing to sign deals that will eventually be poor value contribute to eventually making the team terrible, which leads to the team sacking the GM
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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
We can all sit here and say if we were a GM we would take a long-view and make rationale choices for that, but if your owner says "i want to win now" what do you do?
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We have no idea what goes on at that level... I'm not willing to just assign all blame to some hypothetical concept of widespread tone-deaf micromanaging ownership. That seems like a cop out.