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Buane · 07-11-2008, 11:31 PM

In my newly formed OOTP9 online league, we just finished our 2008 first-year player draft. The same thing that you describe happened to three players in the draft - they were drafted, then immediately released by their organizations after the draft's conclusions. These are human-operated teams - the AI is making no roster changes, but the players got released anyway!

Interestingly enough, it only happened to three players - all picked at almost the same spot in the draft. The released players were the 10th, 12th, and 13th picks of the second round. No other players were released.

But there's more! We had been conducting the draft on our forums while simming the offseason week by week in the game. So when we arrived in-game at March 1st for the draft, we were already into the second round on the forums - up to Pick #10 in the second round!

I put up a new file for our league to look at and set draft lists. The next day I went to sim the draft to completion. We had gotten a few more picks done on the forums in this 24 hour period, so I hand-entered those additional picks, imported the teams, and simmed the draft to completion.

So what does this all mean? Well, the three picks that got released in our league were three of the five picks that I hand-entered between the initial upload of the draft-day file and simming the rest of the draft. This cannot be a coincidence, can it?

To make it a little clearer, here's a simple rundown of what happened:

We're simming the off-season week by week, and running the draft on our forums simultaneously to save time. When we arrive at the in-game draft date, we've picked up to pick #10 in the 2nd round. I enter the picks and put up a file. The next day, we've made five more picks on the forums. It comes time to run the sim, so I enter the five picks, import the teams, and sim the rest of the draft. The whole draft is fine except that three of the additional five picks that I hand-entered get released by their teams, all of whom had human managers.

So I don't know what's causing it, but you're not alone and it certainly is not a player evaluation/AI problem because it's happening in my online league as well.

07-11-2008, 11:31 PM	#5
Buane Minors (Double A) Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 163	In my newly formed OOTP9 online league, we just finished our 2008 first-year player draft. The same thing that you describe happened to three players in the draft - they were drafted, then immediately released by their organizations after the draft's conclusions. These are human-operated teams - the AI is making no roster changes, but the players got released anyway! Interestingly enough, it only happened to three players - all picked at almost the same spot in the draft. The released players were the 10th, 12th, and 13th picks of the second round. No other players were released. But there's more! We had been conducting the draft on our forums while simming the offseason week by week in the game. So when we arrived in-game at March 1st for the draft, we were already into the second round on the forums - up to Pick #10 in the second round! I put up a new file for our league to look at and set draft lists. The next day I went to sim the draft to completion. We had gotten a few more picks done on the forums in this 24 hour period, so I hand-entered those additional picks, imported the teams, and simmed the draft to completion. So what does this all mean? Well, the three picks that got released in our league were three of the five picks that I hand-entered between the initial upload of the draft-day file and simming the rest of the draft. This cannot be a coincidence, can it? To make it a little clearer, here's a simple rundown of what happened: We're simming the off-season week by week, and running the draft on our forums simultaneously to save time. When we arrive at the in-game draft date, we've picked up to pick #10 in the 2nd round. I enter the picks and put up a file. The next day, we've made five more picks on the forums. It comes time to run the sim, so I enter the five picks, import the teams, and sim the rest of the draft. The whole draft is fine except that three of the additional five picks that I hand-entered get released by their teams, all of whom had human managers. So I don't know what's causing it, but you're not alone and it certainly is not a player evaluation/AI problem because it's happening in my online league as well.