EHM The Blue Line

Hey...I've been doing some tweaking of lower age group leagues/teams and I've noticed something bizarre...when I tell the game to start with generated juniors to fill out youth teams, the game does a good job of generated guys with the national/regional birth place reflective of that particular league or city.

But when the game brings new classes in every year to these leagues/teams, it often creates muddled messes - so for example, a Nova Scotia (Halifax is the city) based Midget team got a new class of generated prospects and not only are a bunch of the Canadian players from British Columbia and Alberta, etc (not Nova Scotia or adjacent Eastern Canadian provinces) - but it will randomly fill in squads with bizarre foreign born prospects. See below.

Since these leagues are not "playable" - the only real geographic identifier is the city (and thusly Province or State) that is used as the "Home City". I know that if you don't fill in "Home City", the game tends to randomly choose the birthplace of generated kids. But in this case, Halifax (with coordinates and everything) is filled in as the "Home City".

I guess the only thing I can think of is that in this particular league I setup, I have clubs from all the QMJHL area provinces...so a Nova Scotia club, a couple Quebec clubs, etc. With the goal that they all eventually funnel into the QMJHL draft. That still doesn't explain why kids from Western Canada or odd European countries are showing up but now I wonder if it confuses the game so have a league with multiple provinces at this level. I guess I'll try to do an individual league all for Nova Scotia and see if that "limits" the generated birthplaces to Nova Scotia.

I realize nobody probably has the answer to this but for future reference, I just created a "Quebec Bantam League" with only one team, a Montreal, Quebec based team and in 2020 the fake players generated were from the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Israel, South Korea, Serbia and Romania. Meanwhile a "Nova Scotia League" with only one team, a Halifax based team, had 5 Canadians all from British Columbia.

I think this is one of those things that should be posted on the SI Bugs Forum. It might be something Riz could add to a patch.

archibalduk wrote: Mon Jun 04, 2018 8:46 pm I think this is one of those things that should be posted on the SI Bugs Forum. It might be something Riz could add to a patch.

Done

Is the team Arena set? Also I feel like the created Midget / Bantam leagues aren't handled as good as the ones that come out of the box... maybe some 'Rules & Structures' behind the scenes we don't see?

Just a conspiracy theory.

I usually notice this when the game kicks over and 'updates' itself when July 1st rolls around. I play with a maxed out database, so I have every option of junior and national team players on.

I always notice some lower level Midget/Bantom players will fill out with two or three players from random countries (like a North Korea, Bosnia, Portugal, South Africa, etc), I see nothing wrong with that, but shouldn't the players be generating in Leagues in their countries? Or is the game not initially set up with that?? (like lower level Bantam/Midget leagues for each country that actually DO have it)

I just don't know how the game generates a random regen like that, if Thailand doesn't have a 'league' in the game (I'm 98% sure it doesn't), why are Thai players populated all of the time in these lower meaningless leagues?