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Originally Posted by VanillaGorilla
Cool exercise, however, I am not going to discount the observation of TS as being casual and, therefore, without a basis.
We know player popularity has place of birth as a factor and "local boy" is a bit more popular (ok, I don't have the citation handy...smack me if I am wrong about this...but for now, play along, for fun). It would not be inconceivable that the bad teams that gained the desired FAs in the league TS is in had this factor come into play and your test did not take this into account. Perhaps switching the location of the team with the need at C or Cl to the player's town of birth will yield a different result.
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Ah, I didn't even think of the hometown factor; I'll run that test tomorrow, since I just shut down OOTP to go to bed (it's ridiculously late here). If there's any other variables I missed, folks should feel free to point them out.
And, for the record, I'm not throwing out TS's claims, either. There's no doubt in my mind that he's seen what he claims to have seen. But I've also seen the inverse, and when personal accounts differ, a test is in order.