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it fluctuates each year. it may look inflated in ootp if you count all the players that would never be considered for actual use... and in real life would have retired or simply disappeared. so, apply a filter of some sort to guage it more precisely.
if your finance settings are similar, you will see similar to RL. if you set max years to ~3 or something small, it will be much different.
i can say that a real player league 2017 and first few years are not quite the same as fictional or historical play. i think more of these players hit FA, but i could be wrong. it would be a crowd pleaser if trout, harper and other big names have a slight increase % of becomng available.
i forget which year it was, but you could set a clock to various players being available. some were not quite clockwork but still common to see. i knew i could get harper and trout in consecutive years "most" of the time i started a league, so i planned for it and made sure i could afford them. same with various pitchers.. i know strasburg was a big name that 99% was avaialbe in year 2 or 3.
while i can see deep FA fields in pure fictional play, there are also extreme weak years. the way i play, the strong years are mostly when i let 2-3 players go, lol.
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