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Originally Posted by rasnell

1. When Lahman imports 1,810 players in the 1977 season and a 40-man roster would require 1,040 for the draft, why would the minors still be loaded with more fakes than historical players? There were plenty of players to draft and there are real players in the minors. I don't get it.

Rasnell,

When the game creates a new pool of players for a game, it creates enough players for every roster spot required for all levels, plus approximately 6 players per team to go into the FA pool.

This means that if you set up a historical league with 26 teams, and 3 levels of minors, the game will generate somewhere in the neighborhood of 3,200 players (26 teams x 4 levels x (25 players + 6 FA)) = 3224 players. This number increases significantly if "hidden players" are included, which they are not, by default, with historical leagues.

Originally Posted by rasnell

2. While in the inaugural draft, with scouts and coaches turned off, you can still get reliable head coach recommendations for your human team for about the first five rounds. And then the coach recommends absolutely awful, horribly rated fake players from that point on.

Rasnell, can you please provide the exact structure of this league, so that I can try to replicate the issue? I just created a 1977 league with 3 levels of minors, and got head scout recommendations for picks 1-15. There was one oddball (a closer with ratings of 2/20/1), and I logged a TT 2136 specifically about that. But apart from that, every player drafted was a legit major leaguer so far.

I used the player creation modifiers in all areas. I think there must be something specific to whatever your config is that caused this issue.

Originally Posted by rasnell

Also, the date of birth field when creating a human manager is not working. If you choose a year, the game ignores it and creates something differently. This has happened twice.

This a known issue, #1446.

Thanks!

Steve