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Thanks for all your help.

So the players that are in the draft at the minute will be the players i will be picking from.

What about "bot teams" (or teams with managers that won't choose players during draft) ??? Do they participate in the draft at all ? Engine is choosing players instead of the managers ?

They participate in the draft. They pick their players based on their random unsorted draft list.

Each league has its own pool of 48 players. I don't think they are actually generated at this point. When they are generated you will be presented with a list of players numbered 1-48 with bits of information about some of them, based on how much scouting you have done this season.

The players will be numbered differently for each team. So Player 5 on your draft list will be Player 7 on another team's list, and Player 34 on another. And you might know that Player 5 is a "5 star" player, and the other owners won't know anything about their Player 7 or Player 34. But they may know something about another player that you know nothing about. The bots won't re-order their draft lists, so they are simply picking blind.

BB has announced there will be changes in the draft, but not what the changes will be.

Cheers mate, so the players that are in my draft at the moment are the draft players from last season.

Thanks for your help.

Cheers mate, so the players that are in my draft at the moment are the draft players from last season.

Yes. Also, if you will notice the "preference" column. That is how they were ranked by each team. In my league, 11 teams got their top choice, 3 got their 2nd choice, and 2 got their 3rd choice.

Cheers for help mate.
I have 1 more question, i was looking at my transfer history and i noticed that a couple of players i fired have moved on for free to another club. Is there a free transfer list where you can pickup fired players.

Thanks in advance.

Nope, those players you saw were on the team before you took over. That whole team was completely fired and the decent players were put on the transfer list.

If a team goes unattended for 5 weeks, the owner is removed. At that time, the roster is checked for players with high salaries, generally over $6000, but a bit less for younger players, as well as any players who are on national team rosters.
The players are removed from their old team and then placed on the transfer list.

This happens on Monday mornings, local time, and the transfer deadline is set to 3 days plus a random amount from 0 to 24 hours.

The $6000 threshold has been changed from time to time, and the implementation has been tweaked, so that sometimes the older transactions are not recorded completely. If you will check Bohan and Fawcett, their current salaries are over $6000, and their transfer history shows that they were sold a 2nd time 3 days after they were FA on your team. So someone bought them as FA and immediately re-sold them.

Most of the players that are FA are centers (because of the salary threshold). You might be able to find an older player (late 20s or 30s) who you can afford if you happen to be training guards.