Expansion teams still can't participate in their first Entry draft. They have to play an entire year before getting any drafted prospects to develop. Seem ridiculous? Agreed. Design mistake since FHM2, still present in FHM5.
Below are responses I've received about this over the years:
2015:
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Originally Posted by JeffR
That's the way it works right now, unfortunately, since the expansion teams can't appear in the game until after the annual changeover, which is July 1, after the June entry draft. We're looking at ways around the problem, but it's going to be fairly complicated to change.
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2017:
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Originally Posted by Sebastian Palkowski
We have only limited work resources, so we work through new features by priority. At some point we will reach the point where we have the time to do something like this.
But with Las Vegas this year you should be able to do what you want to do (at least pretty close to it).
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2018:
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Originally Posted by Sebastian Palkowski
No. We canīt add a team before July 1st to the DB, it would break the game as it is now. To make this happen we have to rewrite a lot of code and right now that is not a major priority. Sorry.
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