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Old 03-23-2015, 04:55 PM   #1
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Number of Players in the Historical Database?

How many players are in the historical database? Anyone know?
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Old 03-23-2015, 05:36 PM   #2
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Alot. Just think every player back to beyond 1871 and then some.
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Old 03-23-2015, 06:21 PM   #3
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Alot. Just think every player back to beyond 1871 and then some.
Allow me to rephrase my question then. I have never used the random debut feature and I'm thinking about creating a league in 1871 and going from there. In the prior version I played the game out from 1871 to roughly mid 1970s historical playing with real debuts. In this version rather than playing the same game again I was thinking about using the random debut feature. With that being said how many rounds of the draft should I have fill the league up each year? 6-8 rounds? More? Less? I don't really want to run out of players in the 1950s or anything crazy like that.
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Old 03-23-2015, 08:49 PM   #4
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You have 8 teams and need about 80+ guys. One for every position and a few extras. So around 90 will get you maybe what you need.
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Old 03-24-2015, 08:21 AM   #5
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I had this problem in 15, and by then it was late in the 2000s and I didn't want to restart. So what I did in 16 is start in 1901 (that way there are no 1-man rotations or 40-odd game schedules) but have no minimum import. That way I cut off a good 30 years of imports that could be saved for later.

I started with a 5 round draft until 1938 then went up to a 10 man draft until 1969 when expansion ramped up and I went to a 12 man draft, then I went back to 10 in 1978.

I also only import for the exact number of rounds which may leave me short if some draft picks don't sign but I don't imagine I will have problems due to over 30 years of 5 round drafts and having an extra 30 years of players.

I believe when I did the import in OOTP 15 and ran out of players I had a 10 man draft from 1871 on so I wouldn't recommend that throughout the league.
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Old 03-24-2015, 05:10 PM   #6
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IIRC off the top of my head theres around 18,000+, I will get the exact # later when I get home.
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Old 03-24-2015, 08:35 PM   #7
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I was close

18,484 players
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Old 03-25-2015, 01:24 AM   #8
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Between 1901 and 2014 there have been 2376 team/seasons:

1901-1960: 60 years x 16 teams = 960
1961: 1 year x 18 teams = 18
1962-1968: 7 years x 20 teams = 140
1969-1976: 8 years x 24 teams = 192
1977-1992: 16 years x 26 teams = 416
1993-1997: 5 years x 28 teams = 140
1998-2014: 17 years x 30 teams = 510 = 2376

Divide that by the number of players Mark found (18484) and you get 7.78.

Therefore, if you have 7 or 8 round drafts (depending on how many players come through the initial import of course) you should be able to make it.
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with 16 teams inaugural drafts seem to be right around 700 players when I do random debuts
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