Draft pool - players too old?

snepp · 03-16-2026, 08:45 PM

Anyone else seeing draft pools that are too old? It appears to me that the pools I'm getting in my little test trip through the USBL are probably a year older across the board than they should be. I'm 12 years into the save, so fully into newly generated players.

I've got a save made at my most recent reveal date and going to go back and do a little export and spreadsheet shenanigans later to calculate actual age averages and such.

tgreitsma · 03-16-2026, 08:55 PM

I've noticed this for many years now. I've tried fixing it in the settings to no avail.

drewc71 · 03-16-2026, 11:35 PM

College players - 21
HS players -17/18

Isn't this normal? Thats what the age ranges I'm seeing.

Lukas Berger · 03-17-2026, 04:58 AM

If you are seeing this it would be helpful if you could upload or post a link to your saved game files (just the .dat files) in a save where this happens. We could use that to check out what combination of settings might trigger this.

Thanks!

Sweed · 03-17-2026, 08:37 AM

This gets reported every year by some users. It mystifies me as I've never had the issue in my game. FWIW my game was started in OOTP 4 and imported all the way to v27. When feeders were introduced I used them to fill my draft. A few versions ago the OOTP generated draft classes started to include stats and did as good, if not a better job, of filling the pool than my feeders. At this time I discontinued my feeders and went with OOTP generated draft players. Through all of this I have had proper ages in my drafts.

I'm sorry others have this. I hope that sending in the files to Lukas will lead to a solution.

Cwalker · 03-17-2026, 09:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Sweed

This gets reported every year by some users. It mystifies me as I've never had the issue in my game. FWIW my game was started in OOTP 4 and imported all the way to v27. When feeders were introduced I used them to fill my draft. A few versions ago the OOTP generated draft classes started to include stats and did as good, if not a better job, of filling the pool than my feeders. At this time I discontinued my feeders and went with OOTP generated draft players. Through all of this I have had proper ages in my drafts.

I'm sorry others have this. I hope that sending in the files to Lukas will lead to a solution.

I haven’t run into this issue either (knock on wood).

snepp · 03-17-2026, 09:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Lukas Berger

If you are seeing this it would be helpful if you could upload or post a link to your saved game files (just the .dat files) in a save where this happens. We could use that to check out what combination of settings might trigger this.

Thanks!

I'll do that when I get a chance.

It may just be something specific to the USBL quickstart that's doing it. I haven't created a fictional from scratch yet.

snepp · 03-17-2026, 09:47 AM

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Originally Posted by drewc71

College players - 21
HS players -17/18

Isn't this normal? Thats what the age ranges I'm seeing.

Thanks, and yes that's normal.

snepp · 03-17-2026, 01:10 PM

USBL save link

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Lp7...usp=drive_link

snepp · 03-17-2026, 06:41 PM

I think I may have figured out what's going on here, at least somewhat, but I'll have get a test setup to check it.

I had reduced the number of draft rounds slightly 3 years prior. Normally when I do this I leave the number of generated rounds the same, and slowly reduce it over time if needed. I hadn't noticed that the generated rounds automatically changed in relation.

I think this caused a mass of players to just hang around without entering the draft. When I got to the next year's draft I was seeing some high school players with 6 years worth of stats, some college guys with 5 years of time, etc.

millhousebc · 03-20-2026, 12:41 PM

Sweed.......OOTP4 to OOTP 27.....that's incredible. Esp that the league still runs smoothly through all the changes over the years.

Sweed · 03-20-2026, 04:45 PM

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Originally Posted by millhousebc

Sweed.......OOTP4 to OOTP 27.....that's incredible. Esp that the league still runs smoothly through all the changes over the years.

The only hiccup was going from OOTP 6.5 to the SI 2007 version. Did they call it Baseball Manager 2007? I can't recall for sure? The hiccup was player history not being able to be brought forward with the OOTP import. But there was a mod made by a user, IIRC "Comedian" I think? But that's 20 years ago. His mod did bring in my history and I moved on. It was the only time I ever considered starting a new game.

03-16-2026, 08:45 PM	#1
snepp All Star Starter Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 1,818	Draft pool - players too old? Anyone else seeing draft pools that are too old? It appears to me that the pools I'm getting in my little test trip through the USBL are probably a year older across the board than they should be. I'm 12 years into the save, so fully into newly generated players. I've got a save made at my most recent reveal date and going to go back and do a little export and spreadsheet shenanigans later to calculate actual age averages and such. Last edited by snepp; 03-16-2026 at 08:47 PM.

03-17-2026, 04:58 AM	#4
Lukas Berger OOTP Developments Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Nice, Côte d'Azur, France Posts: 22,211	If you are seeing this it would be helpful if you could upload or post a link to your saved game files (just the .dat files) in a save where this happens. We could use that to check out what combination of settings might trigger this. Thanks! __________________ lukas@ootpdevelopments.com Buy Out of the Park Baseball 27! Need to upload files for us to check out? Instructions can be found here

03-16-2026, 08:55 PM	#2
tgreitsma Minors (Double A) Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Windsor, ON, Canada Posts: 119	I've noticed this for many years now. I've tried fixing it in the settings to no avail.

03-16-2026, 11:35 PM	#3
drewc71 Bat Boy Join Date: Mar 2026 Posts: 16	College players - 21 HS players -17/18 Isn't this normal? Thats what the age ranges I'm seeing.

03-17-2026, 01:10 PM	#9
snepp All Star Starter Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 1,818	USBL save link https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Lp7...usp=drive_link

03-17-2026, 06:41 PM	#10
snepp All Star Starter Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 1,818	I think I may have figured out what's going on here, at least somewhat, but I'll have get a test setup to check it. I had reduced the number of draft rounds slightly 3 years prior. Normally when I do this I leave the number of generated rounds the same, and slowly reduce it over time if needed. I hadn't noticed that the generated rounds automatically changed in relation. I think this caused a mass of players to just hang around without entering the draft. When I got to the next year's draft I was seeing some high school players with 6 years worth of stats, some college guys with 5 years of time, etc.

03-20-2026, 12:41 PM	#11
millhousebc Major Leagues Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 332	Sweed.......OOTP4 to OOTP 27.....that's incredible. Esp that the league still runs smoothly through all the changes over the years.