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Originally Posted by Reed
How to prevent star players entering at the end of their career when starting Random. It has been a while since I played random but I think I avoided this by starting a regular historical game in 1901 with the players that were available that spring, then set it up as random debut (development on, number of draft rounds, rookies from 1901- , set year for stats you like, etc) Play a couple years for the stats to stabilize then go into league functions and zero out career stats league history etc. and you should be ready to go. It's been a couple years since I tried that but I think it worked out pretty good.
Let us know if you try that or something else and how it worked out.
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That's a really interesting tip. Thanks. I agree that certain players show up regularly. I think that the algorithm is more interactive in selecting random players, though I could be wrong. What I find is that if you run, say 5 or 6 random inaugural drafts for leagues one new league after the other, that a certain proportion of the same players, not just stars, show up for 3, 4 or 5 drafts, but gradually the pool is changing to different players. In other words, I think it is random but with a certain percentage, maybe 10%, maybe a little more, repeating for several drafts, and so it takes a little while to get to a nearly entirely new draft pool with no repeats. I also notice that, since I always draft for my own team and play a team, that players I have drafted often repeat as well, so it may be interactive with our own selections, providing a certain percentage of the ones we drafted the last time or two. This of course is entirely impressionistic and may be only my own perception.