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Originally Posted by VanillaGorilla
I really like the idea that there is some randomness in the random debut feature as to when the players are chosen to randomly debut actually debut (in regards to their age).
I have never seen any documentation or forum discussion from the team mentioning this. Nonetheless, I find this being a cool feature. If Ichiro usually debuts around 27, but can debut at, say, 20....THAT is very cool! Just checked, he came into the draft at age 26 for my current league.
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I believe that it's the opposite, that there is only supposed to be randomness in ages for the inaugural draft. But, for the annual draft, since it is a "rookie draft" and you have imported "historical rookies", everyone there comes into the league at the age they were historically when they were a rookie. Then, for this purposes, "rookie" is defined as the first year they have a stat line in the database. If you use the OOTP database, it's the year they made their MLB debut. If it's the Gambo/Spritze database, it's the first year they have a statline for the player.