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A ways back I created a random debut league and just for fun I quicked simmed the league 150+ years. League eventually started adding fictional players.
I found out something while doing this that I never knew the game would do. I use reserve rosters more oten than not when I play random debut. So, as the league plays out, quite a few guys get drafted and never ever make it into a big league game. Since there are no minors, they accumulate zero stat history whatsoever. Well, as my fast sim started accumulating years I started noticing quite a few players in the draft that had a college listed from which they were drafted from. So you would look at say round 5 of the draft and there would be say 5 guys with a college listed. After some investigation, I figured out that these were players OOTP was recycling and reintroducing to the game. Since they had zero stats and zero history the game reuses them. Guessing, if I had minor leagues enabled, this recycling wouldn't happen, because all players would accumulate stats.
So, if you start a random debut and see that Ty Cobb or Babe Ruth come in at the ripe age of 40, you can just delete them and since they accumulated no stats, they will show up later at their MLB debut age.
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