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Keep in mind, (and this can be a bit confusing), any scouting you are looking at is from LAST SEASONS draft. Your scouting results won't be visible until the end of this season.

Star ranking is how good the player is overall (on a scale of 1-5 stars). The letter ranking is a bit more specific. For example, a 5 star player might be an A-, an A, or an A+.

De: GM-BadLarry
Date: 28/12/2007 18:42:27
This is correct. The bots receive a randomly generated draft order (as do human teams). Bots, however, don't reorder them.

Is this order randomized differently for each team, or is there only one list generated for each division ?

I mean : will the number one player in my list be the same than my league neighbour number one ?


Edited by jc dusse (29/12/2007 10:45:51 CET)

Last edited by jc dusse at 12/29/2007 10:45:51 AM

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?!?