So I have a very long-running league (47 years). When I created this league long ago, I put teams all over the world. As a result, the OOTP player origin engines slowly moved the dials so that some countries (China, for example) massively improved in baseball quality. Because I based minor league teams in the same foreign countries, the national origin distribution has changed significantly so that only about 25% of the players are now from the US as of OOTP 13 (which is roughly consistent with the % of teams based in the US).
OOTP 14 has setting for Amateur Draft Pool Origin where you can assign %'s to each country. My first question is how the percentages assigned to each country work. Whatever % I put in for some country, does that fix a certain percentage of the draft/amateur/FA pool to definitely come from there? Do all the pools (first year players, international prospects, international free agents, international scouting discoveries, independent leagues) use the same percentages?
My second question is on "random origin". If I set this to say 15%, does that mean 15% of the amateur pool will come from any country or is it weighted by the quality of baseball in each country and the population? For example, if I set something like so:
US - 50%
China - 20%
Australia - 15%
Random - 15%
Will that 50% of the drat pool is from the US, 20% from China, 15% from Australia and 15% distributed among countries with well-established baseball programs (i.e, USA, Dominican Republic) with the occasional random origin like Namibia? What happens if I set it 100% random?
I just want to make sure I set this right before I mess up the whole league.
