Player File Creation Question

[legendsport]

Not sure anyone knows the answer to this, but I figured I'd ask anyway on the off-chance someone does know.

I'm going to create a player file for an "All-Time" league - basically a mixture of players from throughout NFL history. For more on this idea, check out this thread in the MP forum.

The plan is to create 60 players for each of the 32 teams. I know already that there's no way to avoid having fictional scrubs created, but I want to be able to have enough real players at start-up to keep the percentage of fictionals down. 60 x 32 is 1920.

Now to the point: does anyone know what the percentage of "roster-filler" should be for a file that's 1920? The player file generator help info says that the percentage of roster filler should be lower than the 53.4% it recommends for a 1750-player file.

Here's my estimate:

In a 1750-player file, the sim will create about 1250 scrubs to get the player pool to around 3000 (in my experience it's actually a little more than that, but it seems to vary from game to game). So if you assume that those 1250 are all roster-filler quality, then out of a 3000-player pool, you'd have 1250+935 (that's 53.4% of 1750) for a total of 2185 roster-filler players.

So... if my assumption is correct, then if I create a file with 1920 players, the sim will add 1080 scrubs, but I'd need to create enough to get to 2185 total scrubs, which would be 1005 players. That's 52.3% of 1920, which is lower than 53.4% so it *seems* like I'm on the right track.

Does anyone see a major (or minor) flaw in the reasoning above?

Thanks for the help.

[nilodor]

I think what you propose seems reasonable. As a side note I've success keeping the number of quality generated players down by filling out the teams, and generating several hundred FA's with roster filler ratings.