We’ve done a lot over the last couple cycles to make our generated draft classes more unique and more fun but outside of hand editing the class, there hasn’t been an easy way to customize and adjust classes…until now. Under the League Settings tab in franchise you’ll find Edit Draft Class Strength. From there, you’ll be able to edit the strength of each position in the draft with options that include Very Weak, Weak, Normal, Strong and Very Strong. Each setting will adjust the likelihood of certain types of prospects generating so on Very Strong there will be more top-tier prospects and the chance of seeing a generational is ten times higher than on Normal. On Very Weak, the opposite is true where generationals won’t even have a chance to appear and other top-tiers will have an extremely low chance.
Another quick example of the difference these settings can make in the quality of draft classes is in testing these settings, we generated 30 classes on each setting and with every position set to very strong, draft classes saw an average of nearly ten 80+ OVR prospects per draft. With every position set to Very Weak there were a total of five 80+ OVR prospects over all 30 classes and an average OVR that was over five points lower than the Very Strong classes.
Dev Note: For these settings to take effect, they will need to be set prior to the current season’s draft class being generated which takes place in Regular Season Week 1. If changed after a class is generated, they will take effect in the following season.