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Date: 8/19/2024 4:24:49 AM
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Hello,
This proposal aims to prevent bot teams (who usually get to take the top draft spots) from stealing the best youngsters, and even potential National Team stars. My suggestion is as follows:
1. Teams which are bot on the day that Draft takes place (ex. during the "daily update" do not have a manager) do not take part in Draft.
2. The rest of the Draft plays out as usual, but with less teams should there be bot team/s in the league (ex. a league has 4 bots all of which are rock bottom, meaning there are 12 teams with a manager. The lowest-placed HUMAN team gets the #1 draft spot, the second-lowest gets #2, and so on, until the top team, which gets #12.)
3. With these changes, not all players will get drafted. My idea is that the non-drafted players (who have a skillset, a nationality, height, age etc. but do not have their own pages nor do they have names or faces) are "discarded", meaning they will not be generated and their data is removed.
4. If the "discarding" undrafted players mantioned above is too hard to implement, another solution could be automatically moving bot teams to the end of the draft "queue", so that they take the scrubs. This would simultaneously weaken bot teams and prevent them from defeating "human" teams and, for example, knocking them out of National tournament. This is very rare, but it does happen sometimes and does not bebefit anyone. Examples: (113593401), (112366600).

Why is this important?
To put it simply, bot teams, especially in leagues where there are a lot of them, have a high chance of drafting away good players, preventing us, managers from taking them.
1. For the last 2 seasons, ever since the buff to 19-year-old draftees, the leader of assists per game in Poland has always been a bot player. That's because some bot had gotten to draft a player with 10,5 passing whom a human could have made good use of.
2. According to (292708.665) (in Polish) the season 56 Draft contained 8 18-year-old All-Time Greats in the entire BB, of whom 3 were drafted by bot teams. In Poland, 45 18-year-old Hall Of Famers were drafted, of whom 21 by bot teams - that's up to 21 could-have-been National Team stars! Assuming season 56 Draft was not a fluke, in a big "BB country" like Poland (with a lot of users) could lose 20 top notch rookies + tons of other MVP or Superstar potential, who could make great club players! We don't need the 18-year-old bench warmers (besides scrimmage fodder), while bots get top rookies an a regular basis!
I will be happy to answer Your questions about this idea, though I cannot think of any negative consequneces of this.

Last edited by Hubsoniusz at 8/19/2024 4:39:27 AM

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324644.2 in reply to 324644.1
Date: 8/19/2024 4:39:11 AM
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I like the idea a lot, and if you want to really help NTs there is even a better idea/solution that this one that might complement each other greatly:

Put every Drafted player by a bot team on Transfer market automaticly once they arrive at those teams. This way any team in the world could buy them and give nice 2nd chances to some of the player, because even with what you propose, there will be some good players in bot teams.

If those players end up not being sold, they are extremely bad, so the bot team should get it forever, but for me, there is no point in bot teams to keep new players. Bot teams are meant to occupy a place just for the sake of the competition.

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324644.3 in reply to 324644.2
Date: 8/19/2024 4:50:38 AM
The Cavy Squad
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Your idea is also great, it probably also accounts for bot-only leagues (like Division V in a lot of countries), where a great draftee could still appear, but the bot draftees getting transfer listed would result in managers having to pay for them without anyone recieving the money. If a manager sells a player from Draft, they get 97% of the price paid, but when a free agent is signed, it takes away the entire buying price away from the game. I do think our 2 solutions would work great together though.

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Date: 8/19/2024 5:05:51 AM
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Yes, I think both suggestions could work great. In fact, as far as we all can see, BB-developers want to get rid of money from teams, so this could also help to achieve that.

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324644.6 in reply to 324644.5
Date: 8/19/2024 9:18:16 AM
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Because bot teams will pick last, meaning their chances of getting a good draftee will be low...?

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Date: 8/19/2024 10:17:02 AM
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What's the problem on buy draftees?

If someone thinks like you and decide to not invest on Draft to buy them after they release, good for them? Where's the problem?
The managers who like to invest and get those players (now will have more chances due to bot teams not picking before them), will continue doing it. Good for them too.

I think it's a win-win situation.

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Date: 8/19/2024 11:33:18 AM
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Then, there is one simple solution to all of these problems, which I think would satisfy all of us - do not allow bot teams to participate in Draft at all. No problem with potential flooding of the market with players drafted from bot teams.

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Date: 8/19/2024 12:05:07 PM
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Or put a limitations on which type of players on bot teams go to transfer list as they do with normal FA players... Maybe +7potential?

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