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Old 03-02-2019, 05:08 PM   #17
waittilnextyear
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Can you explain how the draft works.
How do you get 5 players for each team in every draft?
The above question refers to the exact team they played for in real life.
This idea sounds very interesting.

Thank you.
I have the game generate 10 rounds worth of players (that's 260 total) and then look up their careers to find a way to get 5 players that played on each team. It's sheer force of excess that allows me to find 5 players that fit neatly on each team. Only 130 of the 260 get drafted and the rest are deleted to appear in subsequent draft classes.

Where I can, I assign the player to the team he played the fattest part of his career with, but sometimes I have to be a little more generous to teams like the Mets/Blue Jays/Mariners etc because they have fewer players generated statistically speaking. Fewer than teams like the Yankees, Cubs, Phillies, Dodgers etc because players are being drawn from the time period 1930-present--not all of the franchises have history dating back to 1930.
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