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Originally Posted by Sebastian Palkowski
How does this mode work in OOTP? Do you set up a league (say 30 teams) and the game selects randomly players from the entire player pool of all years, then populates the draft each year with random players as well?
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Basically what happens:
- You select a start year, for example let's say 1985.
- You then choose which database years in terms of players you want to be featured in your game. For example if you start in 85 you can choose to have EVERY player possibly enter your game at some point, or you can stick to say 1970 though 2005 etc. This way, only players from those seasons would be possible in your league.
- After league setup a randomly selected group of historical players will be made available in a league wide draft based on the settings you would have entered in the example above. Player ages are also selected at random. For example, a 23 year old Sidney Crosby, a 36 year old Bobby Clarke, a 28 year old Kent Nilsson, a 32 year old Gordie Howe etc..
- From this point forward, every off-season draft will feature a new number of randomly selected historical players based on the settings you set at league startup. From now on however, each player that is generated into the game world will come in as a 17-18 year old rookie. So maybe Mario Lemieux is in the 1988 draft pool, Maurice Richard in the 1997 draft pool etc..
Essentially it would work exactly like the normal historical mode but with players from all eras coming into the league at random times. It would be fascinating to see how a guy like Wayne Gretzky might do in the 50's, or how Bobby Orr would do in the 90's. Plus thinking of all the neat line combinations of players from different eras. The potential for an amazing experience is there.