[LansdowneSt]

schmidtfan,

I started an OOTP22 Historical Game in 2016 and counted the players in each draft going forward. The results are for the Sept draft pool announcement of each respective year are as follows:

2016 - 2,091 players
2017 - 1,138 players
2018 - 20 players
2019 - 212 players
2020 - 0 players
2021 - 0 players
2022 - 0 players

By the time I got to 2022, I went into the Game Settings and saw that the number of rounds for the amateur draft was blank. So, it appeared as -1 rounds (first screenshot) and didn't generate any players. For some reason, the game may need to have you go in for each of the upcoming years Game Settings>League Settings>Rules and manually set the number of rounds for the draft (lower right second screenshot) to generate the amateurs properly. Check it in January, preseason, spring training and after the regular season starts as I don't know when the value is resetting to blank and when the value "locks" for the September draft pool announcement.

There aren't going to be any patches for 22 to address but Lukas et al will look at this for OOTP23 for sure. At least you can reset the value as much as a pain as that may be each year as a work around.