[Steve Strzepek of BTTF]

We keep our rookie draft to 3 rounds each year which results in 90 new rookies a year. The 2001 1st year player draft of about 150 players and the 2002 player draft (June 2002) generated another 162 players. Also, I go thru all levels of each minor league to find real players not in our game. So far after 7 seasons, we have not run out of real name players yet. The plan is to review college seniors rosters and generate names there if we get to a point of no more players. We also will have the 2003 June draft coming up for more names. We use the actual rookie lists generated by OOTP4 and delete out the lower players to keep the top 90 rookies, then I edit the fictitious names to real names matching positions & handedness. Only the names are edited.....................no other attributes are changed for skills. The league has rookies each year utilizing real name players, however, their ages are not actual.............or we would never have young rookies introduced to the league. This keeps a certain level of realism in the league.