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Originally Posted by bababui
This might be fun but its impossible when playing out all your teams games. How would you know who to put on the initial 25 man roster?
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I play every game out and play with just stats, so don't tell me it's impossible. I know better.
There's a lot of ways to do these things. For the draft, you can use your scouts and pick the chioces they recommend. As an alternative, you can turn stars (only! no ratings) on just for the draft.
For your starter team the simplest way is to let the AI handle the initial setup. (The rationale for this is that the team the AI sets up is the team that you inherited.) As an alternative, turn stars (only! no ratings) on just long enough to set your initial roster. Or you can let the AI play a season or two out and then take over, with some accumulated stats you can use to figure out who's who and what's what. All of these methods work.
Playing the game this way is harder, more fun, and more immersive than vanilla OOTP. No, I didn't invent it, I just read about it here on the board and tried it for myself. You won't have a dynasty, you will be scrabbling to figure out who to play and who to promote and demote, you will have epic successes and epic failures, and you will be immersed in the game - because now every single piece of data you can get matters because you don't have any ratings to go by.
Oh, and it makes trades nail-biting, agonizing fun, too.
Want to really feel like a GM? Play it this way.