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nope, the order is random, and diffrent for every team

they did this to prevent players form exchanging info too easely.

I find it logic that bot team also get a random draft order and don't reorder it.

However, in this way many possible talents might get lost, and seeing the effort BB does to get the potential in the game and grow to superstars, this is not much helping them

bot teams finish at the bottom of the league (in most cases) so the first picks go to the bot teams. If the five best players accidentaly end up on top in each of 5 bot teams, the cream of the draft is lost to bot teams...
Chances this happens is ofcourse very low, but I can imagine that bot teams do run off with some of the top draft players over a number of leagues...
I feel that if (and I don't know how much programming work this takes) it is programmed that bot teams' first pick can not be higher than a 3 star draftplayer, this might almost entirely fix this problem.
An other solution might be to have bot teams pick last in order, even if they end lower in the league.
In both cases the managed teams get the chance for their first picks, without seeing a bot running off with him.

Best skill ( shows you what position he is? )

Actually, no; this shows you the player's best skill (i.e. Outside Defense: average). It can be rather worthless information, as a player with Best Skill of Free Throw: strong does not tell you much of anything about that player.

Trying to lose? That's just sad.

The players in the draft, from my experience, really aren't all that great; at least not so great that I'd throw games to get them.

I tried to throw a game last year, i TIE, played my worst players at oppisite positions, and still won by 8 lol. I went from 5th in the league to 3rd, and i had the 4th best record overall in points tie breakers. It was kinda a bummer. I did just sell my number 1 draft choice for 450k.

thank you all.

Now it seems really much more clear to me.

I can't wait to see what kind of prospects notes my scouts will bring me back...

the List is available at season end or playoff end ?

One more question :

is there an age range for the drafted player ? or are they all 18 yo ?

Also, it says in the rules that "The draft occurs during the offseason, two days after the league championship tiebreaker game".

Does anyone have a date for that?!?

They are either 18 or 19.

Also, it says in the rules that "The draft occurs during the offseason, two days after the league championship tiebreaker game".

Does anyone have a date for that?!?

Last league game is Saturday, 12 January.

First round of the playoffs (#1 vs. #4 and #2 vs #3 in each conference, as well as relegation playoffs of Big 8 #6 vs Great 8 #7 and Great 8 #6 vs Big 8 #7) is on Tuesday, 15 January.

Round 2 of the playoffs (semifinal in each conference and game 2 in best-of-three relegation playoffs) should be on Saturday, 19 January.

The first game of the Finals and game 3 (if needed) in relegation playoffs should be Tuesday, 22 January.

Game 2 of the Finals should be Saturday, 26 January, and Game 3 (if needed) should be on Sunday, 27 January.

This would mean that the Draft should take place sometime around Tuesday, 29 January.

All of this assumes that there are scrimmages on the Thursdays during the playoffs, as there were last season. A GM or BB would have to tell you whether or not this is correct.