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Originally Posted by Syd Thrift
In the history of the game I think draft picks used to be a lot more random but people complained and now it’s not. ISTR there being an actual season or two where people were like “it’s a complete crapshoot and I hate it!”, ignoring, I guess, the fact that the actual draft is a bit of a crapshoot. It’s a little like the injury system: I remember people hated it when they were first goosed up to modern day levels and many still play with the “OOTP Classic” settings.
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The real draft is a complete and total crapshoot. Real scouts and GMs still gotta put in the work they get paid to do to the best of their ability.
In OOTP though, I totally prefer the draft to be a *little* less of a crapshoot. The main reason is that there's a whole scouting system available to us to spend a lot of time meticulously researching and analyzing our potential picks. Just so many tools built into it that it'd be a shame if it were completely meaningless. I like that it's still a crapshoot, just a little less so than real life.
As for injuries, I used to feel they were too high, so I lowered the appropriate setting to my liking for a few seasons. And I discovered that by reducing the mix of frustration and opportunities created by injuries, you reduce too much of the immersion of running a team. I cranked them back up to reality and never looked back.