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As another follow-up to this, it's clear that the AI is promoting its International Complex players at 19. I have my amateur draft date set for June 1 and my International FA date for January 12. International Complex players are promoted on both of those dates, and there are no other dates from June to January that those players are automatically promoted on (I don't know whether the AI promotes individual players on other dates during that span -- I'm looking at only batch promotions).
In my current season, my January 12 promotions just took place. I looked at every player AI teams promoted from their International Complexes, and with the exception of a couple of 18 year olds, every player AI teams promoted had turned 19 since June 1 of the previous year. There was only one 19 year old left in AI's International Complexes, and he had turned 19 on January 12 (the date of the promotions). By comparison, the players from my team who were automatically promoted had all turned 20 since June 1. It's clear that the AI's motivation for promoting these players was that they had all turned 19 since the last wave of promotions.
Readiness for promotion is not a factor. As an example, these are the ratings from one of the players who was just promoted by an AI team. The first screen shows his ratings by my scout (the OSA ratings are similarly awful), and the second screen shows his actual ratings from the Editor screen. Does this player look ready for promotion?
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