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Originally Posted by JaBurns
One thing that I would like to see in the future is an option for historical with random debut of rookies similar to the baseball version. I find that a fascinating "what if".
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It may be tough to do that one. Our historical database works a little differently than OOTP's, and hockey has some unique issues to deal with, like some player types not making sense in certain eras, or players of certain nationalities getting randomized into dates where they shouldn't be available (e.g., for Russian players, should they be limited to randomized start years from about 1989-now, or across the whole spectrum of seasons but not be signable until the late 80's/early 90's, so Fedorov, Ovechkin, etc. might appear in 1950 and never get to play in the NHL? And the Soviets didn't start playing hockey until post-WW2, so does it make sense to have Russians appearing in 1933?)