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Originally Posted by beorn
3) If this is the case, I am also uneasy about the design decision. I suspect that this is going to lead AI teams (and humans in online leagues) to end up signing fewer draft picks, leading to strange and unrealistic draft situations.
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I don't believe this is a design decision, as a beta and roster team member who's especially interested in the draft, I've never heard that it was.
So I suspect this is a bug, of some sort.
However, if it was a design decision it might actually be good.
You say that this would lead to "unrealistic situations" which is probably true, insofar as the players less likely to be signed would be first round picks, which would be rather unrealistic.
However less signed picks overall would actually be more realistic. Currently so many more players sign in the OOTP rule 4 draft than in reality that the MLB quickstart default settings cut the draft back to 30 rounds.
This rather than the 40 (and 50 in the past) rounds in the real draft. This is simply because far more players sign in OOTP than do in reality.
So a design decision that lead to less players signing and more rounds would be welcome, from a realism standpoint.
That being said, I'm pretty sure that this is just a bug.