[Carplos]

This bug has been around for a few versions, but I thought it was squashed last year. If it was, it's back.

If you set the player creation ages and your league has a draft, they're all created at the youngest age (and yes, I have the older limit set.) However, if you don't have a draft, when the game generates rookies after the season, it works as it should.

As with last year, 9/10 times when I'm doing a league with a rookie draft the default ages are fine, but occasionally I like to have them different and if I set them to, say, 20-21 or 20-23 (or what have you,) all players are created at the younger age.

I doubt this will get fixed in time for the last patch, but eh, worth a shot.

[Tony M]

We had a to-and-fro in beta about this and this is Markus's take on the issue

Originally Posted by Markus

This setting is for leagues which only have players from a certain age range,
i.e. 20-25. Now, on initial creation the setting is used to create a proper
range of player ages. So now you have a proper balance, which is kept by
introducing the youngest possible players each year. What you are suggesting
makes no sense to me, it is as if players in the MLB draft would be aged 17 to
43.*

What you're looking for is an additional option, something like "age range for
first-year player draft". But that's for a future version.

* I made a comment before about a league with created ages of 17-43 only having 17 year olds in the draft.

[Carplos]

Blah. Ah well. It's just odd that it works fine when creating rookie free agents... is it really all that different than creating players for a draft?

Well, hopefully in a future version.