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Originally Posted by AEWHistory
Okay, I decided to try re-running the settings I've used: I started in 1973 but this time I let it run without taking a job. There was a draft in 1974 but in 1975 the draft board was empty again.
Oh poop....
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Just to clarify why this happens: in 1974, the NHL, worried about the WHA signing underage players, allowed under-20 players to be drafted in the first two rounds. The next year, they reverted back to a 20-year-old draft. The game can't vary age requirements by round, though. So if I set the minimum age in 1974 as 20, a lot of the key guys who were taken historically (Trottier, Larouche, Paiement, Tremblay, etc.) won't be eligible for another year or two.
Instead, I made it 19 for the whole draft; unfortunately, if you have generate at 17 on, that means the teams clean out the entire 1955-born draft pool aside from a small handful of the worst players, who become free agents after passing through the draft once. That leaves nobody available for the real 1975 draft. Turning generate at 17 off avoids that by not creating the 1975 draftees until that year, so there's no opportunity for them to be taken in 1974.