[Guthrien]

I got a couple of my best picks up several levels though I don't have a current save at year 4-5. You could run sims and see the results of the top 5 college talents, but I guess that's what people are effectively saying.

I did make a mistake that I posted about, which is that the Draft talent pool was lower than 24. Not true. There is one funny difference, which it seems like when you increase your pool in 24 (which I did in some of my favorite saves), you'll get more top talent. I haven't noticed that in 25.

Reliver pay though, gotta get that one.


edit: I got bored and simmed a couple leagues to 2034 just to look at draft picks. IDK, it didn't look crazy to me. 1st round picks seemed reflective of reality (60ish % MLB). You can look at Rookie history which makes things a little easier than the draft list and shows some distribution by rounds. The AI is bad about keeping developing guys in their mid-20s in low level pro ball but there were still a reasonable amount making it and I assume all of us pay more attention to our prospects. This isn't at all to suggest there aren't issues, just that a random sim can show something suggestive either way. You'd have to do 100s and compare to other years of OOTP (but comparing it to WAR or signing history in MLB is probably better).