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JeffR · 12-02-2017, 10:39 AM

Yes, it's the draft age change that's the problem. The NHL allowed 18-year-olds to be drafted in the first two rounds of the 1974 draft, which stripped out the best prospects who'd normally have been picked in 1975. It's worse in the game because we can't have two separate age limits in one draft, so the 75 class gets almost completely cleaned out of its best players in 74 (I've added extra players and changed some settings so it's relatively full, if not particularly talented.)

Bridgman may be related to a problem we've noticed with teams signing and releasing certain draft picks; we think we may have it fixed, I'm hoping for a new test build later in the day to test it.

12-02-2017, 10:39 AM	#2
JeffR FHM Producer Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Kelowna, BC Posts: 16,623	Yes, it's the draft age change that's the problem. The NHL allowed 18-year-olds to be drafted in the first two rounds of the 1974 draft, which stripped out the best prospects who'd normally have been picked in 1975. It's worse in the game because we can't have two separate age limits in one draft, so the 75 class gets almost completely cleaned out of its best players in 74 (I've added extra players and changed some settings so it's relatively full, if not particularly talented.) Bridgman may be related to a problem we've noticed with teams signing and releasing certain draft picks; we think we may have it fixed, I'm hoping for a new test build later in the day to test it.