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Originally Posted by r0nster
draft picks trading DO indeed work as promised. I have checked and made mental notes on my trades that dealt with picks and on draft day you will see the list and take note that the drafts you traded are in effect.
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Depends what you mean by "work as promised".
If you start a "new standard game" using MLB rosters and enable "Allow draft pick trading", the 2016 draft order will not change regardless of which draft picks you trade away (or trade for). I've traded every single one of my picks away to gain players, and then had a pick in every round of the 2016 draft. The first time that happened I hadn't even realised until draft day, but I then created a new game specifically to test the behaviour.
After the first season the draft order changes to reflect any picks that are traded.
I believed it was a bug and raised it as such, but the response was that this was done deliberately to protect the first season draft order.
To me that doesn't sit right for a few reasons:
1) it doesn't make sense logically to allow a situation where the trading framework allows picks to be included as a weighted factor in trades but these aren't actually being moved between teams.
2) there is no indication in game (either in the settings or otherwise) that the 2016 draft order is protected and that option will therefore only take effect from season 2 onwards.
3) this behaviour is new in OOTP17 - previous versions of the game reflected changes to the draft order from season 1 when that setting was enabled.
I'm hoping OOTP18 reverts to the previous behaviour for this setting.