OOTP Developments Forums - View Single Post - When you start in past years how does draft work?

fuzzy_patters · 04-28-2022, 01:05 PM

You have the option to have them import on their real teams or hold a draft; however, the players won’t necessarily be in the same draft year that they were in real life. The default setting is for the draft to be in December, and the players in the draft will be the players who played their first professional game the following year. This is because the game uses their real stats to develop ratings, and there aren’t any stats before they appeared in real life games.

04-28-2022, 01:05 PM	#2
fuzzy_patters All Star Starter Join Date: Jul 2011 Posts: 1,806	You have the option to have them import on their real teams or hold a draft; however, the players won’t necessarily be in the same draft year that they were in real life. The default setting is for the draft to be in December, and the players in the draft will be the players who played their first professional game the following year. This is because the game uses their real stats to develop ratings, and there aren’t any stats before they appeared in real life games.